Screenplay: Bill Turner
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bill Turner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Shamus Culhane
Plot Hoppity the grasshopper finds that all is not well when he returns home to the lowlands, a vacant lot just 45 inches from Broadway. A skyscraper is scheduled to be...
6.4
57 votes
6.4
57 votes
Superman (Fleischer Superman cartoons)
1941 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Seymour Kneitel · Izzy Sparber · Dan Gordon
Plot The Superman animated cartoons, commonly but somewhat erroneously known as the "Fleischer Superman cartoons" were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films, produced by Fleischer Studios from 1941 to...
6.4
474 votes
6.4
474 votes
Volcano (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky
Plot A deadly eruption is predicted on the inhabited island of Monokoa. Daily Planet reporters Clark and Lois accompany an expedition to study it, and of course Lois is quickly in...
5.7
123 votes
5.7
123 votes
The Bulleteers (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Orestes Calpini
Plot The city of Metropolis has received an ultimatum, from a gang known as "The Bulleteers," that unless the treasury funds of the city are turned over to them that destruction...
5.7
132 votes
5.7
132 votes
The Arctic Giant (S)
1942 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky
Plot An expedition unearths a frozen Tyrannosaurus in the Siberian tundra and brings it back to the USA. Naturally, it accidentally thaws and runs amok. Can Superman handle it?
5.7
122 votes
5.7
122 votes
Japoteurs (S)
1942 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Seymour Kneitel
Plot American industry builds a gigantic new bomber and Lois Lane stows away on the test flight; little does she suspect, Japanese spies are aboard to hijack the giant. Superman to...
5.2
124 votes
5.2
124 votes
The Friendly Ghost (S)
1945 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Izzy Sparber
Plot The Friendly Ghost is a cartoon released by Paramount Pictures on 16 November 1945 under its Noveltoons series of animated shorts. It is the first cartoon to feature Casper the...
5.0
66 votes
5.0
66 votes
Eleventh Hour (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dan Gordon · Willard Bowsky
Plot Somehow, reporters Clark and Lois manage to visit wartime Japan. While there, Superman commits a little sabotage... at 11:00 each night. Of course, this endangers Lois...
5.0
103 votes
5.0
103 votes
There's Good Boos To-Night (S)
1948 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Izzy Sparber
Plot Casper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene.
4.9
56 votes
4.9
56 votes
Popeye the Sailor: Let's Get Movin' (S)
1936 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky
Plot Popeye, resentful of Olive hiring Bluto to help her move, gets into a competition with the mover.
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Popeye the Sailor: My Pop, My Pop (S)
1940 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Arnold Gillespie
Plot Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a...
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Hawaiian Birds (S)
1936 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot Hawaiian Girl Bird and Boy Bird are setting up housekeeping, and Boy Bird is busy building a nice nest when the Big City Orioles come through. Hearing hot jazz for...
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (S)
1941 · Movie · 17 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Myron Waldman
Plot A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with. In Ragland, needles, thread, scissors and other sewing implements come to life...
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Popeye the Sailor: Me Feelins Is Hurt (S)
1940 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Orestes Calpini
Plot Olive writes a letter to Popeye: she's through with sailors; it's cowboys for her. Popeye immediately sails off to the West, where he finds, who else, Bluto as the head...
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Spinach Packin' Popeye (S)
1944 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Izzy Sparber · Willard Bowsky · Dave Fleischer · Dave Tendlar
Plot Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her...
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Betty Boop: No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (S)
1935 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Myron Waldman
Plot Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain.
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Popeye the Sailor: Puttin on the Act (S)
1940 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Dave Tendlar
Plot Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his...
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The Cobweb Hotel (S)
1936 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Cast Jack Mercer · Mae Questel
Plot A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion".
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Hunky & Spunky: You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly (S)
1940 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Cast Jack Mercer · Pinto Colvig
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