Porky Pig's Feat

Porky Pig's Feat (1943)

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.

Date of release
1943-07-17
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (37)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Frank Tashlin

Casting

  • Mel Blanc — Porky Pig/Daffy Duck/Hotel Manager/Bugs Bunny (voice) (uncredited)

Interesting facts

Porky Pig's Feat is a 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. It was released on July 17, 1943, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, with a cameo by Bugs Bunny at the end.

Production Notes

The title is a play on words, referring to "pigs' feet".

This was the first Schlesinger cartoon directed by Tashlin after his return to the studio following a five-year absence for stints at the Disney and Screen Gems studios. It is also the second and final appearance of Bugs Bunny, and final appearance of Porky Pig, in a black-and-white cartoon.

The cartoon was colorized in 1968 (the year after Seven Arts Associated, the TV distributor of this and 190 other black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoons at the time, merged with Warner Bros.) by having every other frame traced over onto a cel. Each redrawn cel was painted in color and then photographed over a colored reproduction of each original background.

Daffy Duck makes reference to the Dick Tracy comic strip when calling the hotel manager Pruneface.

Porky Pig's Feat contains the first use of the music "Powerhouse" in a cartoon. Composed by Raymond Scott, "Powerhouse" became iconic through its use in over forty Warner Bros. cartoons. "Blues in the Night" is heard after Daffy loses the rent money gambling in the elevator. "The Penguin", another Scott composition, can also be heard when Porky and Daffy run to the elevator with their bags.

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