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5.6/10 • 19

1941-07-050h 7m

AnimationComedy

Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.

Directors
Robert Clampett
Editors
Treg Brown

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  1. Mel Blanc

    Mel Blanc

    Porky Pig / Soldiers / Horse / Chicken / Spitter Plane / Rochester (voice) (uncredited)

  2. Billy Bletcher

    Billy Bletcher

    Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

  3. Robert C. Bruce

    Robert C. Bruce

    Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

  4. Robert Clampett

    Robert Clampett

    Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

  5. Jack Lescoulie

    Jack Lescoulie

    Various (voice) (uncredited)

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CinemaSerf

Mar 17, 2024

6/10

"Porky Pig" is quite literally drafted, very briefly, into this wartime morale-booster that plans to present us with some top secret newsreel. It starts with quite a fun "Daffy Duck" style RKO emitting logo, but thereafter it descends into a rather clumsily put together animation extolling the might of the US military. There's a lightly comedic basis underpinning it on occasion - a "Spitfire" that actually does, but the jokes are fairly poor and the stereotypes wear a little thin after a few minutes. Sure, in 1941 it had a job to do - and I suppose it does it well enough, but many years later it's near the bottom of the pile of propaganda efforts, sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
wartimeshort film