Assignment: Paris

1952

English

6.2

♡ 5

50%

Robert Parrish Director

Paul Birch as Colonel Mannix

Leon Askin as Franz

Hal Taggart as Herald Tribune Staffer

Paul Frees as Radio Budapest Announcer

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Night of the Eagle

1962

English

6.9

♡ 10

88%

65%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

fire

Horror

husband wife relationship

professor

supernatural

tarot cards

Sidney Hayers Director

George Roubicek as Cleaner

Kathleen Byron as Evelyn Sawtelle

Paul Frees as Prologue Narrator

Janet Blair as Tansy Taylor

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.

The Flight of Dragons

1982

English

7.6

♡ 25

92%

Action

Adventure

Animation

based on novel or book

Jules Bass Director

Paul Frees as Antiquity

Harry Morgan as Carolinus

Don Messick as Giles of the Treetops / Lo Tae Zhao

John Ritter as Peter Dickenson

The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.

The Man Called Flintstone

1966

English

6.5

♡ 15

52%

Joseph Barbera Director

Don Messick as Dr. Moonstone / Recorder Bird / Ferocious / Hoppy

Janet Waldo as Roberta

Paul Frees as Rock Slag / Green Goose / Triple X

Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone

In this feature-length film based on the "Flintstones" TV show, secret agent Rock Slag is injured during a chase in Bedrock. Slag's chief decides to replace the injured Slag with Fred Flintstone, who just happens to look like him. The trip takes Fred to Paris and Rome, which is good for Wilma, Barney, and Betty, but can Fred foil the mysterious Green Goose's evil plan for a destructive missile without letting his wife and friends in on his secret?

The First Easter Rabbit

1976

English

6.6

♡ 5

43%

Action

Adventure

Animation

anthropomorphic animal

Jules Bass Director

Burl Ives as Narrator / Older Stuffy

Paul Frees as Spatz / Zero / Santa

Don Messick as Whiskers / Jonathan / Bruce

Robert Morse as Young Stuffy

A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

1971

English

7.3

♡ 8

72%

Jules Bass Director

Paul Frees as Colonel Bunny's Assistant / Fireman / Father at Thanksgiving Table / Santa Claus

Vincent Price as January Q. Irontail

Casey Kasem as Peter Cottontail

Danny Kaye as Seymour S. Sassafras / Antoine / Col. Wellington B. Bunny

Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 chief Easter Bunny, and everyone in April Valley agrees...except for Evil Irontail. Peter must deliver more eggs than this archrival to earn the top spot...and save Easter for children everywhere!

Gay Purr-ee

1962

English

6.7

♡ 9

60%

Abe Levitow Director

Robert Goulet as Jaune-Tom

Jonathan Harris as Lion

Paul Frees as Meowrice / Cat at Railway Station

Tony Randall as Old Man

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.

The Puppetoon Movie

1987

English

7.1

♡ 6

80%

81%

Animation

compilation

compilation of shorts

Arnold Leibovit Director

Paul Frees as Arnie the Dinosaur / Pillsbury Doughboy

Dal McKennon as Gumby

Art Clokey as Pokey

Dick Beals as Speedy Alka-Seltzer

Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s.

Woman Times Seven

1967

English

5.8

♡ 17

34%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Paul Frees as Dubbing

Alan Arkin as Fred

Michael Caine as Handsome Stranger

Michael Brennan as (segment "At The Opera")

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

The Point

1971

English

7.5

♡ 15

89%

Fred Wolf Director

Alan Thicke as Narrator / Father

Dustin Hoffman as Narrator / Father

Paul Frees as Oblio's Father / Pointed Man's Right Head / King / Leaf Man / Villagers

Joan Gerber as Oblio's Mother

Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people. Everyone in The Land of Point had a point at the top of its head. Everyone, that is, except Oblio, who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, song-filled journey of discovery!

Jack the Ripper

1959

English

6.1

♡ 6

51%

Robert S. Baker Director

John Le Mesurier as Dr. Tranter

Marianne Stone as Drunken Woman

Paul Frees as Narrator

Hal Osmond as Snakey the pickpocket

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957

English

4.6

♡ 7

Curt Siodmak Director

Eduardo Ciannelli as Dr. Crespi

Don Taylor as Dr. Peter Masters

Ayres Campos as (uncredited)

Paul Frees as Various Characters

A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."

Flight from Ashiya

1964

English

5.4

♡ 1

29%

Michael Anderson Director

Robert Dunham as Air Rescue Service Crew Member in Plane

Shirley Knight as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

Paul Frees as Narrator

Eiko Taki as Tomiko

Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958

English

7.6

♡ 6

75%

Douglas Sirk Director

Don DeFore as Boettcher

Jock Mahoney as Immerman

Keenan Wynn as Reuter

Paul Frees as Several Characters

A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958

English

6.3

♡ 2

George Sherman Director

Jock Mahoney as Brad Ellison

Gilbert Roland as Miles Lang

Edward Platt as Samuel Grypton

Paul Frees as Various Voices

A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962

English

7.6

♡ 8

Abe Levitow Director

Jack Cassidy as Bob Cratchit / Dick Wilkins

Les Tremayne as Ghost of Christmas Present

Royal Dano as Marley's Ghost

Paul Frees as Stage Director / Charity Man / Fezziwig / Old Joe / Undertaker

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.

The Stingiest Man in Town

1978

English

6.5

♡ 8

60%

Jules Bass Director

Walter Matthau as Ebenezer Scrooge

Paul Frees as Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present / Old Joe

Theodore Bikel as Marley's Ghost

Ado Mizumori as Matha Cratchit

This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.

Pinocchio's Christmas

1980

English

6.3

♡ 9

20%

Jules Bass Director

Paul Frees as Baker

Tiffany Blake as Child

George S. Irving as Geppetto

Gerry Matthews as (voice)

As Geppetto prepares for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet, Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.

The Sword and the Dragon

1956

Russian

5.7

♡ 2

Aleksandr Ptushko Director

Sergey Stolyarov as Aljoscha Popovich

Paul Frees as Kalin / Kalin's Envoy

Mike Wallace as Narrator

Andrei Abrikosov as Prince Vladimir [Prince Vanda, US]

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.