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Meet John Doughboy
Meet John Doughboy

5.6

Meet John Doughboy

NR·1941·7m

Summary

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

Crew

Director

Robert Clampett

Story

Warren Foster

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

March 17, 2024

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.

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

wartime
short film