Screenplay: Chuck Jones
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Chuck Jones. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Looney Tunes (TV Series)
1930 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones · Friz Freleng · Tex Avery · Bob Clampett
Plot Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first...
7.1
32K votes
7.1
32K votes
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 Great American Chase (The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie)
1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones · Phil Monroe
Plot The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (originally titled The Great American Chase) is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences,...
6.8
623 votes
6.8
623 votes
Hopalong Casualty (S)
1960 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a dynamite stick on a fishing pole, a Christmas present wrapping machine, and ACME Earthquake pills, which the Coyote discovers...
6.7
342 votes
6.7
342 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
Zip 'N Snort (S)
1961 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a sling shot, a grenade in a toy airplane whose propeller detaches and leaves the plane behind, a cannon on...
6.5
61 votes
6.5
61 votes
Gay Purr-ee
1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Abe Levitow
Plot Mouser Jaone Tom and housecat Mewsette are living in the French country side, but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement and excitement of the Paris living. But upon arrival she...
6.4
32 votes
6.4
32 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
Chariots of Fur (S)
1994 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Wile E. tries to catch his potential prey through use of various devices.
6.3
308 votes
6.3
308 votes
Heaven Scent (S)
1956 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot En la Riviera francesa, una gata se asusta con repentinos estallidos de ladridos por todos los perros a su alrededor. Por lo tanto, para asustar a la basura, pinta la...
6.3
105 votes
6.3
105 votes
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (TV) (S)
1980 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Daffy Duck reprises his famous role of Duck Dodgers in another spoof of Saturday afternoon space serials. Assigned to locate the rack-and-pinion molecule needed for yo-yo polish, Dodgers and his...
6.3
190 votes
6.3
190 votes
The Phantom Tollbooth
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones · Abe Levitow · Dave Monahan
Cast Butch Patrick
Plot Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in...
6.2
79 votes
6.2
79 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
A Scent of the Matterhorn (S)
1961 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot In the French Alps, an out-of-control street-painter's wagon sprays white paint onto a female cat's back, producing a stripe like that on a skunk. Pepe Le Pew, the amorous French...
6.1
74 votes
6.1
74 votes
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV)
1975 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot An English family living in India discovers a mongoose living on the estate. They decide to keep him as pet, in the hopes that he will keep them safe from...
6.0
39 votes
6.0
39 votes
Two Scent's Worth (S)
1955 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot A crook disguises a cat as a skunk to scare people out of a bank, but then the great lover Pepe sees her and the chase is on through the...
5.9
72 votes
5.9
72 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