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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.

Release Date : 1941-07-05

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Leon Schlesinger Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Mel Blanc

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

Original Name : Mel Blanc

Gender : Male

Billy Bletcher

Character Name : Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Billy Bletcher

Gender : Male

Robert C. Bruce

Character Name : Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert C. Bruce

Gender : Male

Robert Clampett

Character Name : Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Clampett

Gender : Male

Jack Lescoulie

Character Name : Various (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Lescoulie

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-03-17

"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.