Porky está en la Legión Extranjera. Pero no le permiten luchar; lo único que puede hacer es limpiar camellos, y no se le da especialmente bien. Los otros soldados cabalgan en busca del malva... Leer todoPorky está en la Legión Extranjera. Pero no le permiten luchar; lo único que puede hacer es limpiar camellos, y no se le da especialmente bien. Los otros soldados cabalgan en busca del malvado Ali Mode, dejando atrás a Porky.Porky está en la Legión Extranjera. Pero no le permiten luchar; lo único que puede hacer es limpiar camellos, y no se le da especialmente bien. Los otros soldados cabalgan en busca del malvado Ali Mode, dejando atrás a Porky.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
- Ali-Mode - Commandant
- (voz)
- (sin acreditar)
- Porky Pig
- (voz)
- (sin acreditar)
Reseñas destacadas
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Porky joins the foreign legion but he's upset to learn that he can't fight but instead he's given various boring chores that just don't sit too well with the pig.
There are a lot of Arab stereotypes as you might expect from a cartoon made in 1936 but this really doesn't hurt or help the film much. On the whole this here is one of the lesser Porky Pig shorts that were made up to this point because there's really not too much of a story going on and sadly there aren't too many laughs either. The highlight of the film is a scene later in the picture involving a horse but I won't give too much away to prevent the gag from being ruined. As you'd expect there's some nice animation and it moves at a nice pace but there's still not too much here.
Anyway, the plot goes something like this. Porky is a soldier in a foreign legion outpost in either the Arabian desert or the Sahara. He always gets the most menial jobs and isn't allowed to participate in missions to trap the dastardly sheik Ali Mode (the Termite Terrace crowd loved to give people crazy, pun names, didn't they?). But when Ali Mode - who bears a mild resemblance to Osama bin Laden - attacks the fort, Porky pretty much becomes Rambo.
Obviously, the Arab stereotyping makes it a little harder to laugh at this cartoon. It's mostly funny just because of some of the gags they pull. As long as we understand the stereotyping, then it's a pretty entertaining cartoon.
Back when they made this cartoon, they probably never imagined that sixty to seventy years later, a lot of the world's focus would center on the Middle East. "Syriana" should explain it all.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThe barrel of "CAIRO SYRUP" (around 7:33) is an "Egypt" pun on Karo Syrup, a brand of corn syrup still sold today.
- Citas
Porky Pig: Who's-who's-who's th-th-there?
Ali-Mode: [girly voice] I'm a poor little sheikh with no place to sleep. Won't you please let me in?
Porky Pig: [looks at the peephole and finds his guest with a sharp sword] Oh-oh! It's, it's Ali M-Mode!
Ali-Mode: [knocking loudly] Let me in!
Porky Pig: N-no!
Ali-Mode: [knocking loudly] Let me in, I say! Open up the door, please!
Porky Pig: N-no!
Ali-Mode: [knocking loudly] Let me in!
Porky Pig: No! No! No! A thousand... thousand times, n-no!
- Versiones alternativasThis cartoon was colorized in 1968 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. Needless to say, the animation quality dropped considerably from the original version with this method. The cartoon was colorized again in 1992, this time with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.
- ConexionesSpoofs Beau Geste (1926)
- Banda sonoraFella with the Fiddle
(uncredited)
Written by Charlie Abbott
[Plays when Porky tries to wash the camel.]
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Detalles
- Duración8 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1