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