Movies: Gene Deitch

Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding....

An animated adaptation of the picture book by Toni Ungerer...

While Gaston LeCrayon is setting up his painting area on the sidewalk, a limousine zooms by and splashes mud all over the canvas. The wealthy woman, who was a passenger in that limousine, mistakes the mud-splashed canvas for "art" and invites Gaston ...

With his purple crayon, Harold draws a picture for his room - and then becomes part of it....

Two kids want to build a bridge and get help from Samson....

What do you do when your best toy disappears and no one will help you find it? Jules Feiffer's spunky little detective learns that if you keep on searching, you might just discover more than you expected!...

The apartment house superintendent, Clint Clobber, a turkey if there ever was one, is constantly pestered by an old retired Army general, who keeps the tenants in a dither and uproar with his hard-nosed and disciplined military habits. Clint finally ...

Nudnik lives in the Withered Arms Apartments in what appears to be Manhattan. He wakes from his chair/bed and eventually escapes. He decides to start cooking and between expanding bread and a flooding sink creates disaster in his apartment....

An anxious man in his forties quits his job and resigns himself to an early death after a supposed heart attack, but his doctor sets him straight....

In this classic story by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers for children, the man in the moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet, but qu...

One of Clint Clobber's tenants keeps a seal in his flat. After discovering the seal, Clint goes mad. He then tells his tenant he can't keep Alvin (the seal) because no animals are allowed. A man looking for a circus act visits the tenant, and is not ...

A spoiled princess scorns the love of an honorable prince who offers her precious gifts....

Sidney the elephant is looking for a mother, even though he's 44. The hippo and giraffe turn him down....

A CinemaScope cartoon in which Clint Clobber, in his usual job as an apartment-house manager, is annoyed no end by a brat of a girl who seems determined to drive him out of his mind as she goes about wrecking the place. But, in the end, he finds out ...

Nudnik's adventures at a train station, city, and zoo....

Nudnik's various mishaps with some birds....

With the holiday season approaching, poor Reuven, the furrier, has no recourse but to sell the family's beloved goat for supplies. But Aaron has other ideas!...

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A rich woman on her way to a costume party thinks Gaston is a babysitter; Gaston thinks he's there to paint her child's picture. Gaston mistakes her husband, in costume, for the child, and takes extreme measures to make him sit still for his portrait...

Short with Gaston Le Crayon....