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Michael Maltese has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1970s.
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.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc
A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With William Roberts
Space hero Daffy battles Marvin the Martian for control of Planet X.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
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.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Elmer Fudd is hunting both Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny again.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E. Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.
Dir. Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Paul Julian
A bulldog adopts an adorable kitten, but he can't let his owner know.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
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.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Bugs Bunny, once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque", burrows into a bullring where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador. The bull bucks Bugs out of the arena, prompting the bunny to declare "Of course you realize, this means war!" The deft Bugs' arsenal comes plenty packed, as he uses anvils, well-placed face slaps and the bull's horns as a slingshot. The bull fights back, using his horns as a shotgun barrel. The bull's comeback is short-lived; just after Bugs makes out his will, he lures the bull out of the arena, just in time to set up a rube-like device that leads to the bull's defeat.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny vs. a famous opera singer at the Hollywood Bowl.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc, Nicolai Shutorev
This was the debut for Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It was also their only cartoon made in the 1940s. It set the template for the series, in which Wile E. Coyote (here given the ersatz Latin name Carnivorous Vulgaris) tries to catch Roadrunner (Accelleratii Incredibus) through many traps, plans and products, although in this first cartoon not all of the products are yet made by the Acme Corporation.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Paul Julian, Mel Blanc
Daffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.
Dir. Chuck Jones · With Mel Blanc
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