Meet John Doughboy

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

Cast

Mel Blanc

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

Billy Bletcher

as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

Robert C. Bruce

as Narrator - Citizen Sugar Cane (voice) (uncredited)

Robert Clampett

as Siege Gun acting like Chicken (uncredited)

Jack Lescoulie

as Various (voice) (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

"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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