Screenplay: Michael Maltese
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Michael Maltese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Duck Amuck (S)
1953 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
What's Opera, Doc? (S)
1957 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot What's Opera, Doc? is a 1957 American animated cartoon short in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros. Cartoons. The Michael Maltese story features Elmer Fudd...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Long-Haired Hare (S)
1949 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Bugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.
7.1
607 votes
7.1
607 votes
Rabbit Seasoning (S)
1952 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Daffy Duck tricks Elmer Fudd into believing it's rabbit season; but Bugs Bunny uses a female disguise and faulty pronouns to fight back.
7.1
892 votes
7.1
892 votes
Rabbit of Seville (S)
1950 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Bugs and Elmer supply new lyrics to Rossini's opera.
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Fast and Furry-ous (S)
1949 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Fast and Furry-ous is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, released on September 16, 1949, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. It was later reissued as...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
One Froggy Evening (S)
1955 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Rhapsody Rabbit (S)
1946 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Friz Freleng
Plot Bugs Bunny is a concert pianist. On his big night he sits to deliver Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody but must overcome a cougher in the audience, distractions in his sheet...
7.0
263 votes
7.0
263 votes
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (S)
1953 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Space hero Daffy battles Marvin the Martian for control of Planet X.
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Beep, Beep (S)
1952 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mineshafts, with their positions made visible only by the lamps on their helmets.
7.0
513 votes
7.0
513 votes
The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (S)
1950 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Hubie and Bertie have a good time at the expense of Claude the Cat who suffering from a phobia that makes him think he is always sick. Convincing Claude that...
7.0
38 votes
7.0
38 votes
Rabbit Fire (S)
1951 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.
7.0
779 votes
7.0
779 votes
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (S)
1953 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.
6.9
650 votes
6.9
650 votes
Whoa, Be-Gone! (S)
1958 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these...
6.9
412 votes
6.9
412 votes
Looney Tunes: Kit for Cat (S)
1948 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Friz Freleng
Plot Elmer Fudd takes in Sylvester Cat and an orange kitten during a cold winter night. He'd like to adopt them both but can only keep one. He decides to go...
6.9
64 votes
6.9
64 votes
Zoom and Bored (S)
1957 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road...
6.9
393 votes
6.9
393 votes
Ready, Woolen and Able (S)
1960 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot A hungry Ralph Wolf wants to swipe and eat some of the sheep in Sam Sheepdog's flock. Not only does Sam foil all of Ralph's schemes, but he turns up...
6.9
34 votes
6.9
34 votes
Rabbit Punch (S)
1948 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.
6.8
76 votes
6.8
76 votes
Going! Going! Gosh! (S)
1952 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot In his attempt to catch the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote tries the old cartoon trick of putting up a painting of a continuing road where a bridge has in...
6.8
446 votes
6.8
446 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