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Meet John Doughboy (1941)

05/07/1941 (US)Animation, Comedy7m
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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. 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

      Various (voice) (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    6.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on 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 ...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

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    Keywords

    • wartime
    • short film