Dave Monahan Movies
- 1969
This animated children's adventure features the vocal talents of some of Hollywood's greatest voice actors as it mixes live-action and animation to tell the story of a young boy who sneaks into a mysterious toll booth and ends up in the Land of Wisdom. Voices are provided by Mel Blanc, Hans Conried, Daws Butler, and June Foray. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1969
Master animator Chuck Jones has created this full length fantasy, his first since being name director of MGM's animation department. A young boy (Butch Patrick) is bored with his life in San Francisco and finds himself in a fantasy land where letters and numbers are at war with each other. He drives through the Phantom Tollbooth and into an animated fantasy land. The voices of Mel Blanc, June Foray and Daws Butler are featured in this story taken from the book by Norton Juster. The boy tries to rescue twin Princesses Rhyme and Reason, who have been banished to a castle suspended in mid air above the kingdom. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Butch Patrick, Daws Butler, (more)
- 1941
This pre-WW2 cartoon is a satire of the life of the American Enlisted Man, with an abundance of basic-training gags. There are also jokes aplenty about lazy buglers, stupid recruits who can't count to three, an Air Force mess hall buzz-bombed with biscuits, and sham battles with wooden weapons and ersatz parachutes. This plotless laugh parade closes with an elaborate gag on a firing range, spotlighting a clumsy general who sounds (and acts) like comedian Lou Costello. Most of the soldiers seen in Rookie Revue are caricatures of the Warner Bros. animation staff. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1941
Porky Pig rents a theater to show some of his own hand-made animated cartoons. Drawn in stick-figure style, these featurettes include a colorful circus parade (replete with sanitation worker), a horse race at Santa Anita, and a saucy hula-hula dancer. Alas, it turns out that the only audience member willing to sit through the whole show is a skunk with but "one scent" to his name. Most current prints of this cartoon are missing two key gags: one involving a Mexican hat-dancer, the other featuring a blackfaced Al Jolson caricature performing "September in the Rain". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1940
The credits read "Technical Advisor: Mother Goose," but chances are that Tex Avery never let the old dear past the studio gates. Best gags: Jack and Jill go up the hill, and Jack comes down covered with kisses; the Three Little Pigs tell the huffin'-puffin' Wolf something that his best friends won't; a dog wishes on a star and gets a tree; and Humpty Dumpty ends up with a plumber's crack. The finale dispenses with Mother Goose in favor of a new spin on "The Night Before Christmas", in which at least one mouse is doing plenty of stirring! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1939
This collection of three animated adventures with Robin Hood include "Robin Hood Makes Good," "Foney Fables" and "The Old Shell Game." ~ All Movie Guide
