Art Gallery (1939)

Plot Summary

An art museum, on a dark and stormy night. The statue of Nero comes to life and tries to burn the nearby painting of Rome but his matches go out. He tries to get a set of "hear no evil" monkeys to take the matches from a still life, but they refuse and he teases them. The other artworks come to their defense. Nero plays hurt, and gets the monkeys to help; after they stumble around in the still life for a while, they get drunk on lighter fluid and start breathing flames, which they combine with the fluid to act as a flamethrower. Soon, the museum is ablaze and all the paintings are either sounding the alarm or coming to fight the fire.

Full Cast & Characters

Mel Blanc

Laughing Cavalier / Henry VII / Town Crier (voice) (uncredited)

Kent Rogers

Ned Sparks (voice) (uncredited)

Cora Hunter Parks

Vocalist (voice) (uncredited)

Alberta Perkins

Vocalist (voice) (uncredited)

Anna Mae Fritz

Vocalist (voice) (uncredited)

Director & Crew

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