Meet John Doughboy

Name: Meet John Doughboy
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1941-07-05
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert C. Bruce, Robert Clampett, Jack Lescoulie

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1941

Release Year

7 min

Runtime

Animation

Comedy

Overview

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

Keywords

wartime

short film

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)

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@Geronimo1967

March 17, 2024

6/10

"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…

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