Screenplay: Jack Miller

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jack Miller. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


You Ought to Be in Pictures (S)

1940 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Friz Freleng

Plot Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the studio.

6.7

174 votes

6.7

174 votes

Thugs with Dirty Mugs (S)

1939 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot Killer and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability...

6.4

72 votes

6.4

72 votes

6.3

214 votes

Road to Salina

1970 · Movie · 96 min. · France

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Circus Today (S)

1940 · Movie · 9 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas,...

6.1

52 votes

6.1

52 votes

Gunsmoke (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen · Harry Harris · Ted Post · Bernard McEveety

Cast James Arness · Milburn Stone · Amanda Blake · Ken Curtis

Plot TV Series (1955-1975). 20 Seasons. 635 Episodes. Marshal Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the wild west where people often have no respect for the...

6.1

88 votes

6.1

88 votes

Detouring America (S)

1939 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of...

5.6

65 votes

5.6

65 votes

Hamateur Night (S)

1939 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot It's amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead...

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Lassie: A New Beginning

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Don Chaffey

Cast Sally Boyden · Shane Sinutko · John Reilly · David Wayne

Plot The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother Ada. drive to "visit" their uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on...

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Bars and Stripes Forever (S)

1939 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Cal Dalton · Ben Hardaway

Plot Some canine prisoners attempt to make a break from prison.

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Malibu Beach Party (S)

1940 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Friz Freleng

Plot Jack Bunny (a spoof of Jack Benny) invites Hollywood celebrities to his Malibu house for a party.

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Cracked Ice

1938 · Movie · 8 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Plot It’s ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.C. Fields (W.C. Squeals,...

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Have You Got Any Castles? (S)

1938 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin · Friz Freleng

Plot Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures...

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The New 3 Stooges

1965 · Series · 27 min. · United States

Direction Edward Bernds · David Detiege · Edwin Rehberg · Sam Cornell

Plot The animated adventures of the crazy trio.

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French Freud (S)

1969 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Gerry Chiniquy

Plot The Inspector finds himself marked for death by two jewel thieves for the jewel he is guarding.

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Fresh Fish (S)

1939 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse...

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Calling Dr. Porky (S)

1940 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Friz Freleng

Plot A dog thinks he is being chased by small pink elephants, and goes to the hospital. While Porky is working on medication, the pink elephants find him and cause havoc....

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Happy Birthday, Bugs!: 50 Looney Years

1990 · Movie · 48 min. · United States

Direction Gary Smith · Tex Avery · Friz Freleng · Ken Harris

Plot A prime-time television special that celebrates the half-century career of the most famous cartoon rabbit in history.

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Rat Fink

1965 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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The mice will play (S)

1938 · Movie · 7 min. · United States

Direction Tex Avery

Plot The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie...

Not rated

Not rated