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The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo(1964-1965)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo is an animated television series, produced by United Productions of America, which aired for one season. The television series was based on the original cartoon of the same name, with Jim Backus reprising the voice over of the role he did on TV: while doing this show, he continued with the prime time show Gilligan's Island. Unlike the theatrical cartoons, which focused on the extremely nearsighted Quincy Magoo's bumbling, the show featured the Magoo character as an actor in adaptations of such literary classics as Don Quixote and Gunga Din. Each of these roles was played seriously, with few if any references to Magoo's nearsightedness; however, introductory segments in each program featured Magoo backstage stumbling into scenery and talking to props, thus connecting the older cartoons to this series. Some stories were contained in a single half-hour episode, but others ran to two and even four episodes. As UPA did not have its own studio facility the production was farmed out to the Grantray-Lawrence and Format Films studios. Among the most ambitious adaptations mounted in this format were the four-part Robin Hood, in which he took the role of Friar Tuck; Treasure Island, in which he played the villainous Long John Silver; and a version of Snow White in which he portrayed all seven dwarves.

Directed by Abe Levitow

Gay Purr-ee(1962)

G
| 1h 25min | Animation, Music, Romance / Love, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and his furry cohort, Robespierre, chase after Mewsette, but she's already fallen under the spell of a feline modeling-school racket run by Madame Rubens-Chatte and her slimy assistant, Meowrice.

Directed by Abe Levitow - With Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Paul Frees, Mel Blanc, Red Buttons, Hermione Gingold, ...
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol(1962)

NR
| 52min | Animation, Kids & Family, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.

Directed by Abe Levitow - With Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees

Gerald McBoing-Boing(1950)

8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.

Directed by Robert Cannon, John Hubley

The Tell-Tale Heart(1953)

8min | Horror, Animation, Crime
3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster.

Directed by Ted Parmelee

1001 Arabian Nights(1959)

1h 15min | Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nephew's laziness, Abdul insists that Aladdin find a wife. To his uncle's surprise, Aladdin falls in love with the beautiful Princess Yasminda. Before he can make his move, however, Aladdin is whisked away by the evil Wazir on a quest to find a magic lamp that will grant its owner unlimited power in the form of three magic wishes.

Directed by Jack Kinney - With Alan Reed, Hans Conried, Herschel Bernardi, Jim Backus, Kathryn Crosby, Dwayne Hickman, ...

Rooty Toot Toot(1951)

7min | Animation, Crime, Music
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

The story of Frankie and Johnny: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.

Directed by John Hubley

Madeline(1952)

8min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.

Directed by John Hubley, Robert Cannon

Magoo's Lodge Brother(1959)

6min | Animation, Comedy

Near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to his lodger-convention and latches onto a robber, whom he thinks is his room-mate. He winds up in the den of the thief thinking he is in his convention hotel room. He proceeds to toss around in fun dynamite, hand-grenades and bombs until the crook is knocked out and captured by the police. Magoo becomes a hero.

Spellbound Hound(1950)

NR
| 6min | Animation

Mr. Magoo invites a friend to his lakeside cabin, unaware that a bloodhound has pursued an escaped convict to that isolated location.

Love Comes to Magoo(1958)

6min | Animation

A female con artist is after Magoo’s wealth.

Giddyap(1950)

7min | Animation, Comedy

A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.

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When Magoo Flew(1954)

6min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the man he is sitting next to is actually a thief and when a detective appears on the plane to track the thief down, Magoo thinks it's all part of the movie. After doing some wing walking, Magoo reenters the plane and exposes the thief to the detective. When the plane lands, Magoo remarks that they should have shown a cartoon particularly one with that "delightful near sighted fellow".

Directed by Pete Burness

Magoo’s Three-Point Landing(1958)

7min | Animation

Magoo’s car breaks down on an airport runway.

Merry Minstrel Magoo(1959)

6min | Animation

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.

Meet Mother Magoo(1956)

7min | Animation, Comedy

Mr. Magoo brings in his mail opening up a flyer for a store's "83rd Anniversary Sale". Magoo thinks that the flyer is a letter from his mother about her "83rd birthday" and begins to worry that maybe he hasn't spent enough time with his mother lately. He goes to pay his mother a visit to make up for lost time but upon arriving, Mother Magoo doesn't quite appreciate Magoo's attempts at being helpful such as baking a feather duster thinking it to be a turkey dinner. So she uses psychology to eventually persuade him to go back home (at least until next year).

Trailblazer Magoo(1956)

6min | Animation, Comedy

The near-sighted one decides to take a hunting-and-fishing trip, and hires a Native American guide. He quickly grows impatient with the guide and takes over leading the way. He winds up in a big city and in a park lake, trail-blazing his way over park benches, statutes and through the zoo, releasing a lion along the way.

Calling Doctor Magoo(1956)

7min | Kids & Family, Animation

When Rodney, a friend of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo, goes to the hospital, Mr. Magoo decides to visit him and to take along some of his cure-all, homemade elixir. But he makes a wrong turn and ends up on a docked-ship visiting a stranger wearing a turban, thanking he is Rodney, and gives him some of the elixir. He returns home and gets a telephone call from Rodney who is waiting for his visit. He thinks Rodney is delirious and ventures forth for another visit carrying a giant-size bottle of his elixir.

Swan Lake(1966)

1h 47min | Drama, Music
3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Perhaps the most popular ballet video ever released, this version of Tchaikovsky's beloved work stars one of the most famous classical dance partnerships of all time, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Nureyev choreographed this production for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. Two icons of 20th-century dance in magnificent form. Ballet authority John Lanchbery, former music director of the Sadler's Wells and Royal Ballet companies, as well as of American Ballet Theatre and Australian Ballet, conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's enchanting score.

Directed by Truck Branss - With Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn

The Jaywalker(1956)

7min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost obsessive, behavior.

Directed by Robert Cannon

Punchy De Leon(1950)

7min | Animation, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Fox and Crow attempt to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

Magoo's Problem Child(1956)

7min | Animation, Comedy

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo returns from a trip and mistakes a ramshackle shack, near his home, for his palatial home. There, he finds evidence of all manner of crimes, ranging from murder down to counterfeiting, and jumps to the conclusion that his nephew Waldo is responsible. He gets Waldo and runs away seeking a hideout until he can straighten things out. Following Magoo's fugitive-directions, they wind up in the city jail.

Magoo's Masquerade(1957)

6min | Animation, Comedy

The near-sighted Mr. Magoo is on his way to take a French ballet star to a ball, but he makes a wrong turn and ends up escorting an ostrich, a zoo fugitive, in her place. A detective becomes suspicious, as well he might, when the ostrich becomes attached to some of the guest's jewels. Magoo finally takes his date home and he suspects that she would like for him to call again.

Frosty the Snowman(1951)

3min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Magoo Express(1955)

6min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Foreign-flavored intrigue abounds when Mr. Magoo is mistaken for a fellow spy aboard a European train.

Magoo Goes Overboard(1957)

6min | Animation, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. Magoo and Waldo are on a cruise aboard an ocean liner when the near-sighted MaGoo accidentally falls into the ship's swimming pool and thinks he has fallen overboard. When he tries to rescue one of the swimmers, the ship's captain jumps in and rescues Magoo. The grateful---and talkative---MaGoo informs the ship's captain that he will inform the ship's captain of his good deed and, when last seen, MaGoo is heading in the direction of the swimming pool.

Magoo Goes West(1956)

6min | Kids & Family, Animation
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. Magoo is depressed over the constant rainy weather. Well, actually, it isn't raining; he's just left the sprinkler running. Fed up, he plans to venture to California in search of sunny weather. Even though he never actually leaves town, the trip is a long one with Magoo driving through city parks and water fountains. Finally believing himself to be on the home stretch when going through a car wash, he is convinced he has finally made it to California when he crashes into a billboard advertisement for Florida.

The Explosive Mr. Magoo(1958)

7min | Animation

Mr. Magoo has a windup toy mistaken for a bomb.

Destination Magoo(1954)

7min | Comedy, Animation
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to the "Moon". The life that man leads!

Magoo's Private War(1957)

6min | Animation, Comedy

The near-sighted Mr. McGoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously. When he stumbles across the premiere of a new science-fiction movie at a theatre, he thinks his town has just been invaded by outer-space aliens. He takes the on-screen activities as part of the attack and goes through all the civil-defense steps to save the audience.

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