Direction: Maurice Noble

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Maurice Noble. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Beep Prepared (S)

1961 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Beep Prepared is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1961. It features Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Chuck Jones directed from a story by John...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

A Sheep in the Deep (S)

1962 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog punch into work, with Sam guarding a flock of sheep against Ralph's attempts to snatch some mutton for dinner. Ralph uses a lull-a-bye record to...

7.0

30 votes

7.0

30 votes

To Beep or Not to Beep (S)

1963 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Wile E. Coyote hopes to stop and catch the Road Runner using a huge, boulder-throwing catapult. But no matter where Wile E. positions himself, the catapult drops the boulder on...

6.8

438 votes

6.8

438 votes

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below (S)

1964 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom is an opera singer, trying to sing "Figaro"; Jerry lives under the stage, and Tom is disturbing his sleep. This, of course, means war.

6.7

200 votes

6.7

200 votes

The Abominable Snow Rabbit (S)

1961 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Bugs and Daffy run into the abominable snowman in the Himalayas.

6.6

165 votes

6.6

165 votes

The Bear That Wasn't (S)

1967 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot The Bear That Wasn't is a ten minute animated short about a bear that settles down for his long winter nap. While he is asleep the progress of man continues....

6.5

111 votes

6.5

111 votes

Tom & Jerry: Haunted Mouse (S)

1965 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Jerry's magician friend (cousin?) drops by, levitating Tom. Later, when Jerry is preparing dinner, Tom accidentally grabs the magician, who hypnotizes him. While Tom is under, the magician goes into...

6.4

46 votes

6.4

46 votes

Louvre Come Back to Me! (S)

1962 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Pepe Le Pew, the eternally amorous skunk, is in Paris, where the smell of his odor sends a female cat upward to hit a freshly painted flagpole, which puts a...

6.4

81 votes

6.4

81 votes

The Dot and the Line (S)

1965 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot A straight line is in love with a dot; however, the dot finds the line too plain, unimaginative, and rigid. She would rather spend her time with an undisciplined squiggle...

6.4

531 votes

6.4

531 votes

Transylvania 6-5000 (S)

1963 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot After getting lost on his vacation, Bugs ends up in the middle of Transylvania. He decides to get a room for the night in a nearby castle, which of course...

6.4

189 votes

6.4

189 votes

Compressed Hare (S)

1961 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten trillion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.

6.3

70 votes

6.3

70 votes

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

1986 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Greg Ford · Friz Freleng · Terry Lennon

Plot In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the...

6.2

227 votes

6.2

227 votes

Mad as a Mars Hare (S)

1963 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Marvin Martian is monitoring through his telescope a rocket launch on Earth. The rocket heads straight for him and lands on Mars. The only occupant is Bugs Bunny, lured into...

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

Now Hear This (S)

1962 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot In this very abstract cartoon, a hard-of-hearing old Britisher finds a red horn and uses it as a megaphone, unaware that it is really a lost horn from the Devil's...

6.2

129 votes

6.2

129 votes

Cannery Rodent (S)

1967 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom chases Jerry into a fish cannery; they get sealed into cans. Tom breaks out, but falls off a pier as the cans roll under him. A shark chases him...

6.1

160 votes

6.1

160 votes

Tom & Jerry: Bad Day at Cat Rock (S)

1965 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Bad Day at Cat Rock is a 1965 Tom and Jerry cartoon produced and directed by Chuck Jones as essentially a remake of his 1963 Wile E. Coyote and Road...

5.9

48 votes

5.9

48 votes

Tom & Jerry: Cat and Dupli-cat (S)

1967 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom is on the canals of Venice, singing opera. He ends up on a cruise ship, where another cat tricks him out of Jerry (who Tom has just caught), then...

5.8

44 votes

5.8

44 votes

Tom & Jerry: I'm Just Wild About Jerry (S)

1965 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom chases Jerry through city streets, gets run over by a streetcar (twice), and follows Jerry into a department store. In the toy department, they have some fun with radio-controlled...

5.6

27 votes

5.6

27 votes

Tom & Jerry: Of Feline Bondage (S)

1965 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom chases Jerry around a pool hall. Jerry's fairy godmouse arrives, and Jerry tells the story; she gives him an invisibility potion. Jerry uses this to do some creative barbering...

5.5

25 votes

5.5

25 votes

Nelly's Folly (S)

1961 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Jones · Abe Levitow · Maurice Noble

Plot A talent agent on an African safari discovers Nelly, a singing giraffe, and brings her to America to be a famous performer. But with fame comes loneliness, and Nelly longs...

5.3

137 votes

5.3

137 votes