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The Wearing of the Grin

Porky Pig spends the night at an Irish castle after being caught in a storm, and gets in trouble with the two leprechauns who live there.

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Release : 1951
Rating : 6.8
Studio : Warner Bros. Cartoons, 
Crew : Director,  Producer, 
Cast : Mel Blanc
Genre : Animation Comedy

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Scanialara
2018/08/30

You won't be disappointed!

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SnoReptilePlenty
2018/08/30

Memorable, crazy movie

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VeteranLight
2018/08/30

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Afouotos
2018/08/30

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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wilhelmurg
2015/03/17

This was the final solo cartoon starring Porky Pig, and fittingly, it is also one of his most surreal. The whole thing is a dream (or is it?) where Porky goes into the Daliesque world he inhabited in Bob Clampett's 1938 classic PORKY IN WACKYLAND, only with an Irish bent to it this time around. The short is also satirizing the Hans Christian Andersen story, THE RED SHOES, which had recently been adapted for the screen, in 1948, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger when this cartoon went into production. The Leprechauns popped up later in the audience watching the basketball game in SPACE JAM. Porky would go on to be teamed with Daffy or Sylvester throughout the golden age, but never again as a solo performer.

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TheLittleSongbird
2010/05/20

The Wearing of the Grin is not a favourite by all means, but I liked it a lot. The animation is very good, with beautiful colouring, convincing character features and dream-like visual effects. The music as pretty much always is a delight as well, as are the sight gags(beware of the leprechauns was a good one). I for one enjoyed the climax, it was funny if a tad predictable, and the dialogue comes by thick and fast. The story is effective if slight, and the characters are good too. Porky is suitably timid here, but it is O Pat and O Mike who steal the show, they could be seen as stereotypical but they were funny, that's what mattered to me. And of course Mel Blanc is excellent. Overall, it is visually imaginative and definitely worth a look at least once. 9/10 Bethany Cox

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slymusic
2009/06/08

"The Wearing of the Grin", directed by Chuck Jones, is a wonderful Porky Pig cartoon. Porky seeks a room for the night and ends up inside a large castle occupied by two leprechauns who are not helpful in providing the hapless pig some rest.Here are my favorite sequences from this cartoon (if you haven't yet seen it, don't read any further). The green shoes Porky is forced to wear cause him to dance a jig; when he removes the shoes, they chase him through a magnificent fantasy landscape (reminiscent of 1938's "Porky in Wackyland"). Watch how Porky reacts when he discovers that one of the leprechauns seems to have lost his lower half! The two leprechauns also hide a couple of surprises underneath their hats."The Wearing of the Grin" can be found on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Disc 2, with an optional audio commentary by a very knowledgeable cartoon historian named Michael Barrier.

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tavm
2008/01/05

In The Wearing of the Grin, Porky is stuck in a haunted house in Ireland inhabited by a couple of leprechauns. They attempt to banish the pig to wearing green shoes because they think he's going to steal their pot-o-gold. Another very amusing short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The music here is not by Carl Stalling but Eugene Poddany who would eventually do the scores of Jones' cartoons for MGM. Loved the way Porky dances whenever he's wearing the shoes. Highly whimsical dream sequences also abound near the end. This is on disc 2 of Vol. 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection on DVD. If you're a big animation fan, I highly recommend you check that out.

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