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Best movie of this year hands down!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

The first must-see film of the year.

. . . as Warner Bros. warns unsuspecting honest U.S. citizens and world travelers during PORKY PIG'S FEAT. The Broken Arms Hotel Manager presents Porky and Daffy Duck with an 8-line bill for $152.50 about 46 seconds into this story. Trouble is, the mostly bogus itemized charges actually add up to $172.50. Then the manager waves a second bill in the faces of his victims 5:39 into this animated short. It shows a charge of $500.62 ($25,031, adjusted for inflation) for 11 mostly different items, when the fraudulent sum should total $619.13. Warner is telling viewers to always look a "Gift Trump" in the mouth, since they'll usually find lots of rotten teeth. My Grandpa's saddest story was the time he took his University of Michigan Chess Team to a tournament in Southern Illinois. Reaching the Chicago area on the return trip at about 1 AM, the Skokie Motel 6 claimed they'd lost Gramp's "guaranteed" four-room reservation for the 15-person coed squad. Since the Sixers had two German Shepherd attack dogs in their lobby, Grand Pops couldn't argue about their perfidy. He was forced to pool everyone's remaining personal cash for a quartet of rooms at a swank mob motel on the other side of town called something like "Allgauers." At the next morning's check-out time, the Looney Tunes Allgougers Manager knocked on the window of the U-M Chess Team Van, claiming "complimentary" guest robes that Gramps had just personally inventoried as "the last one out" were "missing." Three days later the U-M Comptroller received a "damage claim" for $2,114.67 (about $34,770, adjusted for inflation) from Alliars. Gramps got fired so that he could not argue on behalf of a trio of U-M chess coeds who were held academically hostage until their dad's ponied up the $2,000-plus ransom demand. If Gramps had seen PORKY PIG'S FEAT prior to that trip, Bobby Fischer might be alive Today.

If there was one cartoon that seemed to really represent the wacky side of the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. output of the '40s, it's this one-Porky Pig's Feat-in which he and Daffy Duck are trying to escape the hotel manager because they can't afford to pay the extravagant bill because of Daffy's recent gambling loss. The gags fly fast starting with the Duck's smashing the manager's face into "a Dick Tracy character, Pruneface" to when that manager falls down a very long circular flight of stairs constantly saying "ow, oo, ow" to him going through multiple rows of doors (with one saying "Montonous, isn't it") to a surprise cameo of a very popular character that provided the hilarious last line. All I'll say now is, Porky Pig's Feat is most definitely worth watching.

Frank Tashlin's 'Porky Pig's Feat' is an exceptionally handsome black and white cartoon. Trapped in a hotel with a bill they can't pay, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck attempt to rid themselves of the fearsome manager and escape. It's a simple set up for a fast paced and very funny short. There are several things that make 'Porky Pig's Feat' notable besides its general excellence. The drawing and animation style have an unusually modern feel to them for 1943 and the camera angles and set-ups have a really cinematic feel to them. Witness Daffy's wild rush down the corridor and into the elevator or Porky and Daffy as they swing on a rope made of sheets from the hotel window. Perhaps the most notable element, however, is a last minute cameo from (a rather odd sounding) Bugs Bunny who makes his only appearance in black and white and his first appearance alongside Porky and Daffy. Although it was still early in Bugs' career, he had already outshone all the studio's previous stars in terms of popularity and this is reflected in Porky and Daffy's hero worship of him. It's slightly odd to hear Daffy proclaiming that Bugs is his hero in light of their more famous rivalry developed by Chuck Jones in later years. All these unusual elements help make 'Porky Pig's Feat' a classic but, crucially, it also has a great script and a wonderful energy that drives it forward until its great surprise ending. One of Tashlin's best films.

As a cartoon director Frank Tashlin, in my opinion, was greater for his use of cinematic angles.In the matchless "Pig's Feat," the size of the surly manager is emphasized by Tashlin's tight cropping and extreme closeups. Where else in history have we ever seen a character stuff his head down another's throat and bawl him out-? To the accompaniment of rumbling tympani drums-? One of the most startling and hysterically funny sequences in all animation."Feat" employs some really breathtaking tricks to heighten the spatial quality of many scenes. And it is rapidly paced. Pay close attention to the rather angular aspect of Daffy's body when he loses the money and later as he's held captive. Tashlin's interpretation of Daffy has always been my favorite (Jones later destroyed the Daffy I loved--but that's another subject).