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Meet John Doughboy( 1941)

TV-MAAnimationComedy
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Overview

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

    Top Billed Cast

    1. cast image

      Mel Blanc

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

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      Billy Bletcher

      Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

    3. cast image

      Robert C. Bruce

      Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

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      Robert Clampett

      Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

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      Jack Lescoulie

      Various (voice) (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Mar 17 2024
    "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 i...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • wartime
    • short film