Meet John Doughboy

Unrated

7/5/19417m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

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

Director:

Robert Clampett

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

Cast

Mel Blanc

~ as ~

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

Billy Bletcher

~ as ~

Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

Robert C. Bruce

~ as ~

Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Clampett

~ as ~

Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

Jack Lescoulie

~ as ~

Various (voice) (uncredited)

Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
"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.