Movies and TvShows featuring "war-rationing" theme.
During World War II, Donald Duck faces tire trouble when he gets a flat tire on his car. He tries to fix it but faces various challenges along the way. This short film showcases the comedic and animated adventures of Donald Duck in the 1940s.
A writer embarks on a road trip across the country, encountering love and laughter along the way.
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
A donkey, putting a small pile of rubber out for wartime recycling, is dismayed by the much larger piles his neighbors have put out. He goes into the backyard and finds, in his lawn, a huge buried inner tube - but it has a mind of its own.
Tender Comrade follows the lives of a group of women who band together to support each other during World War II. They face challenges and hardships on the homefront while their husbands are away at war. The film explores themes of friendship, love, and the strength of women during difficult times.
A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.
A wolf, deprived of meat by war rationing and starving, sees an article in the newspaper about a sheepdog leaving his flock to join the army and thinks it will be easy pickings. However, if he had read the rest of the article, he would know that the flock is now guarded by the ram Killer Diller, a most formidable foe.
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
Singing cowboy Daffy retires to the Painted Desert (still wet). He falls for an Indian maiden with a Brooklyn accent, but her very large boyfriend catches them. Daffy dresses in drag, which fools him for a while until Daffy's wig falls off. The boyfriend chases Daffy into the Petrified Forest (where Daffy freezes and breaks tomahawks). The Indian sends smoke signals from a phone booth and his tribe attacks Daffy, trapping him under his house trailer.
Buckaroo Bugs is a hilarious western-themed animated comedy film that follows Bugs Bunny as he outwits a masked bandit and saves the day. With clever disguises, witty catchphrases, and slapstick humor, this movie promises non-stop laughter and entertainment for the whole family.
The early worm barely escapes the bird, again. In search of a way to get rid of the bird, he enlists the help of a cat, but the bird is too smart for the cat.
Goofy demonstrates a number of crazy vehicles.
A dog, starved for meat, goes to different lengths to get a steak back from a little dog that keeps out-smarting him.
It's Popeye's birthday, and Olive Oyl invites him over and bakes him a cake. Popeye invites depressed shipmate Shorty to join them.
When Elmer Fudd disturbs Bugs with his railroad surveying, Bugs fights back.
To prove he's a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees...
A goat is starving because scrap metal drives have snapped up all the cans. He finds his way onto a battleship - a giant tin can! The first sailor he sees is Popeye, who he is more than happy to turn into a goat himself.
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Shep the dog is seen by his master as loyal and loving, but the cat knows he is really a self-centered, conniving weasel who lets burglars in the house and takes credit for the good deeds of others.