Thugs with Dirty Mugs
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68% Critic Match

Thugs with Dirty Mugs

6.8 / 10 1939 8mNR English
AnimationComedyCrime

Storyline

Killer Diller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order (except the 13th National Bank, which they skip out of superstition). Despite their predictable actions, the police are unable to catch them...until they get a tip from an unlikely source.

Cast & Crew

Tex Avery

Tex Avery

Ed. G. Robemsome as Killer Diller (voice)

Lead
Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

Tattle-Tale Bank Clerk / Annoyed Mobster / Secret Agents / Man in Audience (voice)

JD

John Deering

F.H.A. Sherlock Homes as Flat-Foot Flanigan with a Floy Floy (voice)

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tex Avery's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Thugs with Dirty Mugs is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker