Movies and TvShows featuring "wooden-dummy" theme.

In Italy during the Great War, Geppetto, a carpenter, loses his son Carlo in a bomb accident. Devastated, Geppetto spends the next twenty years mourning and plants a pine cone near his grave. He then cuts down the resulting tree and crafts a wooden boy named Pinocchio, who is brought to life by a bluish Wood Sprite. Pinocchio's journey begins as he navigates through school, the circus, the afterlife, and war, while discovering the true meaning of life and immortality.

Ip Man, the kung fu master, travels to San Francisco to deal with the racist attitudes of the local martial arts community and defend his student's right to teach Wing Chun.

In Wing Chun, a female martial artist must use her skills to protect her town from bandits. She faces challenges from her childhood sweetheart and must master the Wing Chun style to win the fight.

In Knock On Wood, a ventriloquist becomes entangled in a spy ring after his wooden dummy is stolen. With the help of a police inspector and a fellow ventriloquist, he must navigate a world of deception and danger to retrieve his dummy and clear his name.

Stage Door Canteen is a heartwarming movie set during World War II, where a group of soldiers visit a canteen in New York that is frequented by famous stars of the time. The film showcases live performances by popular entertainers and explores the lives of the soldiers who find solace and joy in the midst of war. With comedy, music, and romance, Stage Door Canteen is a feel-good movie that celebrates the resilience and spirit of the human spirit.

A town is attacked by a deadly creature, it can only be stopped with the Dragon Blade. The one person who knows where the blade is won't tell Lang, and even if he did, untold peril will fall on anyone who dares to find this legendary weapon.

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.

In this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.

Ip Man: The Final Fight is a biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, the grandmaster of the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu. Set in postwar Hong Kong, the film follows Ip Man's struggles to establish a martial arts school and protect his students from the violence and corruption of the city. As he faces his own mortality, Ip Man must confront his greatest challenge yet and leave a lasting legacy.

Overland Stage Raiders is a 1938 drama western movie that tells the story of a bus driver and an airplane pilot who find themselves in a town. The movie follows their adventures and the challenges they face in this modern-western setting. Along the way, they encounter a wooden dummy, get involved in the Three Mesquiteers series, and experience the thrills of being in a B-movie. The presence of airplanes adds an exciting element to the narrative.

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?

Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.

Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.

Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?

It's Fibber and Molly's 20th anniversary and they want to throw a big party. But when everyone declines their invitation, they decide to go on a second honeymoon instead. After one night at the broken down Ramble Inn, where they spent their first honeymoon, they decide to go across the lake to a swanky (and expensive) lodge, where they bump into their old friends Edgar Bergan, Charlie McCarthy, Gildersleeve, and Mrs. Uppington, so the party is on again.

Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley. Steve is about to enter the army and he and Tex Coulter compete for the love of Connie Grey.

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy travel to Mexico and enrage a jealous boyfriend.