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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...
Initial release date:
- 1964
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 94 min (56 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,800,000 (US$)
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King Kong
King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally...
Initial release date:
- 1933
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Screenplay by:
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Twelve Monkeys
12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by the French short film La Jetée (1962), and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. The film depicts the world in 2035 as devastated...
Initial release date:
- Dec 27, 1995
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 129 min (77.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 29,000,000 (US$)
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (occasionally referred to as simply 2001) is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial...
Initial release date:
- 1968
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Runtime:
- 160 min (96 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 10,500,000 (US$)
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Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Hanks portrays a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes on a flight over the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to...
Initial release date:
- Dec 22, 2000
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 143 min (85.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 90,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Airplane!
Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd...
Initial release date:
- 1980
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,500,000 (US$)
Independence Day
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert...
Initial release date:
- 1996
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones...
Initial release date:
- 1981
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 20,000,000 (US$)
Casablanca
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Set during World War II, it focuses...
Initial release date:
- 1942
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 1,039,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production.
The commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, though scapegoated...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Runtime:
- 144 min (86.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 25,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
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Wings
Wings (1927) is a silent movie about World War I fighter pilots, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (production) and the only silent film ever to win...
Initial release date:
- Aug 12, 1927
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 139 min (83.4 hs )
Produced by:
Executive Decision
Executive Decision is a 1996 action film, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, David Suchet, John Leguizamo, and Steven Seagal. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 1996.
Lieutenant Colonel Austin...
Initial release date:
- Mar 15, 1996
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Runtime:
- 134 min (80.4 hs )
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a 1959 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write ...
Initial release date:
- 1959
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 136 min (81.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 4,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Plane Crazy
Plane Crazy (first released on May 15, 1928) is an animated cartoon, and is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to be released. A soundtrack by Carl W. Stalling was added to the cartoon on December 29, 1928.
The short was co-directed by Walt Disney and...
Initial release date:
- May 15, 1928
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers. The ensemble comedy premiered on November 7, 1963.
Four...
Initial release date:
- Nov 7, 1963
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 192 min (115 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 9,400,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King...
Initial release date:
- May 23, 2001
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 183 min (110 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 132,250,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Airport
Airport is a 1970 American film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office at a time when achieving that milestone was rare, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 137 min (82.2 hs )
Produced by:
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ, Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) (re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States) is a 1986 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli. Laputa:...
Initial release date:
- 1986
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Top Gun
Top Gun is a 1986 movie that was directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with the Paramount Pictures company. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., and was inspired by the...
Initial release date:
- 1986
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 comedy-drama crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and Louisiana...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 2002
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 141 min (84.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 52,000,000 (US$)
Air Force One
Air Force One is a 1997 action thriller film, written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of In the Line of Fire. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 25, 1997
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 85,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Die Hard 2
Die Hard 2, also known as Die Hard 2: Die Harder, is a 1990 action film, and the second installment of the Die Hard series. It was directed by Renny Harlin, and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia (reprising her role...
Initial release date:
- Jul 4, 1990
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 70,000,000 (US$)
Con Air
Con Air is a 1997 American action/thriller film by Touchstone Pictures that stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Simon West. The film borrows its title from the nickname of the...
Initial release date:
- 1997
Directed by:
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Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins (Gwyneth...
Initial release date:
- Sep 17, 2004
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
Alive
Alive is a 1993 film by the husband and wife team, director Frank Marshall and producer Kathleen Kennedy. It is based upon Piers Paul Read's acclaimed 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (which itself was based upon interviews with...
Initial release date:
- 1993
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
The Terminal
The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It is about a man trapped in a terminal at JFK International Airport when he is denied entry into the United States and at the...
Initial release date:
- Jun 18, 2004
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 128 min (76.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 60,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Soul Plane
Soul Plane is a comedy motion picture from MGM, released in the United States on May 28, 2004 (see 2004 in film). The film stars Kevin Hart, Method Man, Tom Arnold, D.L. Hughley, Mo'Nique, K.D. Aubert, Godfrey, and Snoop Dogg.
After Nashawn Wade ...
Initial release date:
- May 28, 2004
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 16,000,000 (US$)
Firefox
Firefox is a 1982 action film produced and directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. It was based on a 1977 novel with the same name by Craig Thomas.
Russian filming locations were not possible due to the Cold War, and the producers selected Vienna...
Initial release date:
- Jun 18, 1982
Directed by:
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Runtime:
- 136 min (81.6 hs )
Produced by:
Always
Always is a 1989 romantic drama directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Brad Johnson. This is also Audrey Hepburn's final film appearance. The film was distributed by Universal Studios and United...
Initial release date:
- Dec 22, 1989
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Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 29,500,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Air America
Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots, during the Vietnam War, flying missions in Laos. The protagonists discover their planes are used by...
Initial release date:
- Aug 10, 1990
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 112 min (67.2 hs )
Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 American film adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an ...
Initial release date:
- 1999
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 139 min (83.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 63,000,000 (US$)
Airport '77
Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.
The film starred a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport...
Initial release date:
- Mar 11, 1977
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 American action comedy film starring Robert De Niro (in his Golden Globe-nominated performance) as a bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as his prisoner.
The film was later followed by three made-for-TV movies produced in 1994,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 11, 1988
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 30,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Aviator
The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film, which centers on the life of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, draws largely upon a biography by Charles Higham. The film...
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 2004
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 169 min (101 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Dawn Patrol
The Dawn Patrol is a 1930 World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It was directed by Howard Hawks and won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders.
The story revolves around the pilots and crew of an...
Initial release date:
- 1930
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. It was the basis for a 1965 and later 2004 film...
Initial release date:
- Dec 15, 1965
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 142 min (85.2 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels is a 1930 American epic war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall. The film, which was produced by Hughes and was written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook, centers on the combat pilots of...
Initial release date:
- 1930
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Produced by:
1941
1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by friends Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and premiered in December 1979. The film is a comedy about a panic in the Los Angeles area...
Initial release date:
- 1979
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 35,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Pushing Tin
Pushing Tin is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell. It centers on a cocky air traffic controller (John Cusack) who quarrels over proving "who's more of a man" with fellow employee Bell (Billy Bob Thornton). The film got mixed reviews,...
Initial release date:
- 1999
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Produced by:
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is an American comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures in 1987. It was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Steve Martin and John Candy.
Steve Martin plays the tightly wound Neal Page, a bundle-of-nerves...
Initial release date:
- Nov 25, 1987
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Rookie
The Rookie is a 2002 motion picture directed by John Lee Hancock. It is inspired by the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career.
Jim Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder 12 years before the...
Initial release date:
- Mar 29, 2002
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 24,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane II: The Sequel (also known as Flying High II: The Sequel) is an American comedy sequel to the 1980 film Airplane! First released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty,...
Initial release date:
- Dec 10, 1982
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Only Angels Have Wings
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots, its atmosphere,...
Initial release date:
- 1939
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Produced by:
Flightplan
Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005.
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a propulsion engineer...
Initial release date:
- 2005
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 55,000,000 (US$)
Airport 1975
Airport 1975 is a 1974 disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 hit Airport. The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s. Its plot devices and characterizations,...
Initial release date:
- Oct 18, 1974
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 106 min (63.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Delta Force
The Delta Force is a 1986 action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey...
Initial release date:
- Feb 14, 1986
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 biographical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. Its screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1954 Pulitzer Prize winning...
Initial release date:
- Apr 20, 1957
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 6,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Munich
Munich is a 2005 historical fiction film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September terrorists. The film stars Eric Bana and was co-produced and directed by Steven...
Initial release date:
- Dec 23, 2005
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 164 min (98.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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The Concorde...Airport '79
The Concorde ... Airport '79 is a 1979 American disaster film (in the UK, it was released a year later as Airport '80: The Concorde). The film was the fourth and final installment of the Airport series. Panned by critics, the film made only US$13...
Initial release date:
- Aug 17, 1979
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a musical film made by RKO and released on December 29, in 1933.
The film was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Lou Brock. The screenplay was written by Erwin S. Gelsey, H.W. Hanemann and Cyril...
Initial release date:
- Dec 29, 1933
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 89 min (53 hs )
Produced by:
Snakes on a Plane
Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American Comedy horror feature film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film was written by David Dalessandro, John...
Initial release date:
- Aug 18, 2006
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 36,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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The Great Waldo Pepper
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 drama film about a discontented pilot played by Robert Redford. The story takes place in the years 1926-1931.
Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) feels he has missed out on the glory of aerial combat in World War I after...
Initial release date:
- Mar 13, 1975
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Produced by:
Flight of the Phoenix
Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of a 1965 film, both based on the book of the same name. The film opened in the US on December 17.
It received mixed reviews.
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain...
Initial release date:
- 2004
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 45,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
United 93
United 93 is a 2006 film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film attempts to recount with as much veracity as...
Initial release date:
- Apr 28, 2006
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 15,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Memphis Belle
Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut. It is a fictionalization of the 1943 documentary Memphis Belle:...
Initial release date:
- 1990
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 107 min (64.2 hs )
Screenplay by:
Left Behind: The Movie
Left Behind: The Movie is a film released to theaters, VHS, and DVD in 2000, starring Kirk Cameron, Brad Johnson and Clarence Gilyard. It was directed by Vic Sarin. Left Behind was proclaimed by its creators as the biggest and most ambitious...
Initial release date:
- Feb 2, 2001
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 99 min (59 hs )
Produced by:
Flight 93
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film chronicling the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E; Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006.
The film focused heavily on...
Initial release date:
- Jan 30, 2006
Directed by:
The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer is a 1991 period adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and based on the character of the same name created by comic book writer/artist Dave Stevens, who also served as a co-producer. Directed by Joe Johnston, the film stars...
Initial release date:
- Jun 21, 1991
Rating:
Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Aviation Vacation
Aviation Vacation is a 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was directed by Tex Avery, story by Bob Monahan, musical direction by Carl Stalling.
This is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce that featured...
Initial release date:
- 1941
