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

Top Cast

  • Mel Blanc

    Mel Blanc

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

  • Billy Bletcher

    Billy Bletcher

    Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

  • Robert C. Bruce

    Robert C. Bruce

    Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

  • Robert Clampett

    Robert Clampett

    Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

  • Jack Lescoulie

    Jack Lescoulie

    Various (voice) (uncredited)

Overview

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

Rating

5.8 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 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 it's near the bottom of the pile of propaganda efforts, sorry.

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