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5.7(18)19417m

AnimationComedy

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

Cast

Mel Blanc

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

Billy Bletcher

Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

Robert C. Bruce

Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Clampett

Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

Jack Lescoulie

Various (voice) (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

6.0

"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...