The Bee
2019
Meet John Doughboy (1941)
July 5, 19417mEN
5.7
18 votes
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 ClampettWriter
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Leon Schlesinger Productions
Movies Like Meet John Doughboy
Recommended for You
6.7
Chip an' Dale
1947
6.5
Gone Fishing
2017
6.2
Good Scouts
1938
6.5
Canine Caddy
1941
6.2
Moving Day
1936
6.1
Beach Picnic
1939
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
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 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…
Read full review →