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So, what'd you do if you had an iPhone, and a different but similar game to Pokemon Go? Well, if you were someone like 17-18 year old Vee Delmonico (EMMA ROBERTS), you'd play "Nerve", the game where "watchers" watch you "play"...if you know what I mean. Emma's fellow players are best pals Sydney (EMILY MEADE) & Ian (DAVE FRANCO, brother of JAMES) who get caught up as other friends, most notably Asian Liv (KIMIKO GLENN most known for "Orange is the New Black") are watchers. This takes a devilish turn..devilish, when Ian and Ve(Venus) get on motorcycle, racing across their native (nighttime Brooklyn, New York NYC!) streets then Vee goes it alone. We also get Sydney doing a daring young girl on a..not flying trapeze but on a ladder between two apartment buildings, dangerously falling through (not seriously hurt though) while, after confronting HER back from her daring bike-a-thon, VEE sueceeds at. The game gets much more challenging with sinister, mysterious figures watching and making it a televised, even family threatening bet.

You wanna real dangerous game and enjoyable..see this flick..

Just early into the New Year, I, one who saw this in its 2011 original release, and am watching it right now, on Amazon Streaming, have finally taken it upon myself to review it six years now.

To jdkraus from Mainevillo, Ohio. Just with all due respect, you're a wee bit off with your proffered 2008 release date for "Taken", the earlier, somewhat similar monster blockbuster, but it was one year behind, 2009 the real release date,so no harm done with the wrong date, since 2008 was before 2009.

Now onto the review. This film, with Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, and January Jones, taking time off from some TV "Mad Men", take the lead here.

Neeson is a spy who goes overseas with wife Jones, goes in a taxi, crashed into a navigable river, and then winds up amnesiac in the hospital. He knows of being Dr.Martin Harris (but it's not sure and I sure as heck ain't gonna spoil this here).. and then spends the first part of the flick running up against an impostor, a January Jones who does not even recognize him, a kid-nap, or adult spy-nap..to coin a phrase, where he again winds up in some hospital, a sinister following by someone through a tunnel,, then meets Diane Kruger (always lovely as ever..) who becomes the best person to happen to him, almost a girlfriend, and offers him (Neeson:)"a place to crash') This friendship is off and on as she b word slaps him at a hip disco, suspecting something, wins up with wife Jones, being more her Mad Men husbands type, and from here I ain't gonna spend any more time here, because it would spoil it.

You just gotta watch, or what ever, or hey. Read other reviewers.

Everyone, including Fox, has been "Taken" (a-hem!) with LIam Neesonm, and it shows with films (this is from Warners,though,not Fox) Trademark of losing or looking for someone or something is a longtime, and patented Neeson trademark, but commercially and creatively, you have to admit, it works. No big chases a lot with Fox's Taken movies but still a very good thriller.r

This was a short lived amnesia spy show that I only occasionally seen..comparisons with the 2011 Liam Neeson flick "Unknown", and as the first reviewer also noted, "Bourne Identity'(forgot that series..). This becomes a real popular theme...but it doesn't get used more often.

This show was so odd that it wasn't rerun..or even given closure (no big surprise for many shows..)..or a video release.

8 out of 10 at least for something unique. Even if it seemed a bit weird. But now with the Matt Damon "Bourne series", and thanks to the first reviewer for refreshing the old cranium here, and Liam Neeson "Unknoqn", this gimmick in a popular state has gotten a favorable status with producers and, as box office shows, fans.

Our beloved Candace Cameron Bure, thru producing and acting, is surely a very beloved cottage industry of Hallmark Christmas Specials! First poster:Thanks for the review as I did not know that it first took place in 1945 which explains her sweetness, though it shows the timelessness of a American girl's appeal! This is still playing as I write it, so I am not sure how it ends! Candace Cameron Bure herself is usually the only familiar name I see in her films on the channel, but this has Tom Skerritt as well, who you'll remember from many earlier movies. Also to the first reviewer: I was born fifteen years after World War II, and I know (largely through reviewing all those old Warner Brothers, MGM and Disney cartoons!) about those ration cards, which in the Iraq wars (and any others) probably should have been used...(explains how the cartoons from the studios I gave that were Technicolor took two years to make it to the screen). In 1945, by the way, the war (an IMPORTANT topic for both children and older people to know about today at any time!) was almost at an end, so rationing might now have been as much of a deal.It DID look at the start like it started in the 1940s. Candace has always been a veteran of family films, a longtime, pun ahead, HALLMARK, of the 1940s (esp.at Disney), and as a "Generation X" celebrity, by appearing in a slightly 40s set film, with the era's sentiment in 2016, and a large favorite with all generations, truly helps hold this together..still as I write this film is not yet ended...I won't spoil it anymore..You might like this if you loved "The Age of Adaline" from a yar and a half, which had Blake Lively as a WWii (and 1930s) woman still living, though not by time travel, in 2015, as well.

One of Universal's final good and great cartoons, due to Tex Avery, and Kurt Hahn, no offense, but your review is similar to Tex's 1952 Metro (by the *way*, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famous aconym is (emphasis) not, shouting -Metro's cartoon"Rock-A-Bye Bear". This is the one with the 1920s famed Okeh Laughing record used as a soundtrack.

Unfortunately,Universal's "classic cartoons": afterwards became the Chilly Willy pity-tuggers, the cutesy Woody/nephew/niece/etc. cartoons and boring Beary Family shorts *all* directed by Paul Smith and written, almost always by Cal Howard (also responsible for the last several years of Warner Bros.cartoons, which did give us slightly better cartoons there..). If any of Universal's current releases, like "Almost Christmas","50 Shades" sequel, etc.etc.etc.etc.have a character watching a Lantz cartoon, the 1960s-70s ones shouldn't be it, (especially in a more mature Univ. movie!) ones going back from this true classic by Tex Avery to the 1930s should be the cultural references if Universal, a la WB with Bugs, Yogi,etc. or Disney with Mickey, Elsa, does an in-joke cultural reference. Now...Shhh.. I'm trying to sleep. lol Way to go ex (he did the *only* Chilly Willy cartoons where the penguin's not a character type used for Hanna-Barbera's Yakky Doodle duckling----where only pity is seemingly the only raison d'etre. (All of which is moot as Universal's movies thankfully overall have no Walter Lantz connections, which means no 1960s Paul J.Smith shorts..sadly it means no gems like these of Woody the Giant Killer,either.) By the way this board's stupid dis-allowing of shouting is total censorship and causes vast misinformation about a point.This censorship of so-called "shouting" as it is called is in reality mentioning Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's acronym, once again. Just like Warner Bros. or National Broadcasting Network. I am not shouting okay? Back to the review for the final line, "Shhhh" was the final great cartoon released by Universal Pictures. No other cartoons should, in my humble opinions, ever have been released after 1955 for Lantz. Then a whole blemish on the overall legal would not even exist....:)

I guess I'll be the first after the late, lamented, F.Gwynplaine MacIntyre from North Wales to do a review here.

This may have been a "commercial" for General Foods Post cereals but the characters within were NEVER the product, just the spokes-uh, if you will critters. Imagine Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, etc.(Kellogg's), Lucky the Leprechaun, Sonny and now, long sadly discontinued, Cocoa PUFFS Gramps the Cuckoo Birds, the Trix Rabbit,etc. (General Mills not to be confused, not that it isn't, with General Foods Post), or Captain Crunch, Jean La Foote the Pirate (Quaker Oats), with their own respective Saturday morning (or other outlets, theatrical included, just to mention mascots created exclusively for cereals) cartoon shows.

That's essentially what Linus was, along with fun writing, and the voices of Sheldon Leonard as Linus, Carl Reiner (who worked on many TV shows with Leonard) as the Mel Blanc to Leonard's one man voice, as Dinny Kangaroo, Billie Bird, Croc, and that grousiest of grouses, or "grice", Sascha, show producer-director Ed Graham (Jr.) as Mocking Bird (all of them in the Linus series), Gerry Matthews (NOT Sterling Holloway) as Sugar Bear, Ruth Buzzi as Granny Goodwitch, Bob McFadden as forgetful absentminded Benji Wolf and evil Mervyn the Magician (Sugar Bear), Bob McFadden as Lovable Truly the postman in his segment and Rory Raccoon in his, both sounding like Liberace with Jesse White as Claudius Crow in the Rory segment, and finally (NON-RACIST) Ed Graham again as So Hi and one of the greatest performers and a favorite of mine, and one of Ed's as well, Johnathan Winters as a giant, in the So Hi series.

Also throw in a cliff hanging segment, "The Company", bridging all of the above segments, with two or more of the above characters and music from several stock libraries (Ron Hanmer, Van Philips and others among composers), and original stuff from Johnny Mann and singers and Hoyt Curtin, borrowed from Hanna-Barbera when this started in 1964 (which thus explains Ted Nichols's presence over at HB) and a rather New York Terrytoons 60s type animation style (it was partly done back East and on the West coast under directors Lew Irwin and Irv Spector),m and you have a show.

A postman (Loveable Truly) who loves dogs. A raccoon who has to battle a crow and many more made up "Linus the Lion-hearteds", 1964-1969, various networks, excluding NBC. Actually, pulled in 1969 due to charges of commercialism yet syndicated in the next decade.

(1970s) Still a decade (eighties) after that: a new generation of decidedly inferior later "informercials" that had toys (both boy and girl), making one realise how (Lovable) truly great Linus truly was, going back to its initial, network run in the 1960s. Far better than twenty years later, a huge gap when (in my very HUMBLE opinion) toy commercials not just with mascots advertising, with, to damn with faint praise, a fraction of "Linus the Lionhearted wit or or goofiest, would dominate: "Transformers", ":He-Man","Care bears","Strawberry Shortcake"(popularity notwithstanding, ironically taking still decades for HER series), and "My Little Pony" (and coming from THIS self-confessed Brony), one realises, in conclusion, that the 1960s "Linus" was pretty good.. or.."He's the Host of which we boast". YouTube has had many episodes.... just get ready to feel a bit sad when the end credits... and note the "Bashful Bigshots" in the Season 1 voice credits.

I'll have to agree with F Gwynplaine MacIntyre from Wales..BTW, C.C.Krieg, Wales and England are in (Great) Britain, NOT England..anyway,on Chuck Jones reusing too much of the house style and a very tiny voice talent pool reusing over and over again the same voices, I'm afraid that, having watched all of his specials, with all great due respect to Chuck for his much earlier better work, I'm very inclined to agree.

Which is all the more reason for me to be irritated by later Chuck Jones and equal him with Tim Burton, right down to the narrow talent pool (Mel Blanc=Johnny Depp; June Foray=Helena Bonham-Carter), and the use of composers with the "D.E." initials. Dean Elliott=Danny Elfman, and the distinct house style.

Let me introduce you to the ingredients of this here action here flick "Deadpool"

It has:(you should know these top ten facts, a la David Letterman if he were still on TV) 1. CGI character (the credits promise this) 2. A moody teen 3. Open credits that which promise these and others 4. A fourth wall breaking hero played by Ryan Reynolds 5. Ryan Reynolds was also a producer 6. A very creditable job by the entire cast is in the film 7. Ryan puts in a very telling amusing after credits scene. 8. It has sex and sick things 9. It has songs on the soundtrack (though with all due respect to Juice Newton, whose 1981 remake of "Angel of the Morning" (written by Chip Taylor, who also wrote "Wold Thing" by The Troggs (1966)!0is heard, the earlier though not original 1968 Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts version owns to me) Oh yeah 10. It has an R rating, superhero comic world's worst.

All of these mean a very well rounded movie with a fourth wall, wisecracking superhero with an unusual message from getting the girl (relatively unknown MORENA BACCARIN, who raiseth the relationship with RYAN REYNOLDS way about SACCHARIN). We get a lot of surprise abilities of Deadpool sitting on precarious, acrophobia-causing high level places and calm admitting it to us, the audience.

All of this, and the announcement by the character of a sequel, makes this a film waiting in a long line, still in its first weekend, for.

The strange combination of Daffy & Speedy was never a good thing at but this is really odd..

Daffy goes and keeps Speedy In Spain or someplace like it out of Daffy's new adobe hacienda.

What makes the whole thing a :misgotten thing" is, as another reviewer wrote, the whole "Astroduck" title?

ASTRODUCK????

WHAT Astroduck?

That doesn't even happened until the end!!

(anything more will spoil it and the only other reviewer to notice the inaccurate title already cited it.)

There has to be a lot of these made at this time that are eyeball rolling but they picked an unfitting title (conversely, 1948's Porky Pig cartoon "Nothing But The Tooth", has almost no relevance except at the open.)

This is Walt Disney's first "biography", in a way of speaking--more specifically, it is how Mary Poppins flew to Hollywood. Emma Thompson (who also played an earlier nanny in the short lived Nanny McPhee franchise some years early) really conveys P.L.Travers's frequent reluctance and selfishness yet also her talent and magic, with Tom Hanks, no less as "Walt" (he didn't require titles to address him. Everyone was on a first name basis with him), fitting right into the role... You;ll see supporting plays like Paul Giamatti as the kindly limo driver who has the only true friendship with P.L.Travers, B.J.Novak & Jason Shwartzman as the famed Oscar winning songwriting Shermans, Bradley Whitford as Disney scribe Donald Da Gradif and even the famed Disney secretaries,(unsung actresses Kathy Baker as Tommie and Melanie Saxsson, who is real funny, as Dolly, the one who is in the sessions and brings snacks.) No fancy snacks, no animated Penguins or anything, no songs...you've heard all the (generally considered impossible to deal with) P.L.Travers requests. You'll see childhood Australian 1906 flashbacks of P.L., and you'll find out her real name and the reason for her temper later, in 1961. You'll also see that P.L. was both nice as a kid and only human as an adult, and that Walt Disney could be practically (to use Mary Poppins's obviously favorite adverb there) stubborn as P.L. was. You can hear the songs that the Shermans play, even an actual tape recording as P.L.Travers in real life and on screen insisted on. So, have a spoonful of sugar and see this. And Mr.Banks, of course, was the dad, both in real life and in the movie.I won't spoil what P.L.Travers real name is but the discussion board would have the answer.:)

I think this is one of the more underrated TV special. This, which actually comes from 1970 and not 1971, debuted the week of March 31-April 7,1970 on NBC under the sponsorship of Armstrong-Evans Carpets.

It's actually an extended take on the tale (think the more recent "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" from this year, for example), with Papa Bear and his Paul Winchell-voiced buddy, a feisty and easily frustrated bobcat (perhaps a Bob Crosby and his Bobcats reference) who goes by just plain Bob (clever.:))playing golf when Junior (Nathan Crosby) warning both of ... PEOPLE.

As we see the story unfold, with the Human Race song taking the three bears, then the Goldilocks part with Mary Frances Crosby (channelling SHirley Temple and anticipating Dakota Fanning and Maggie Elizabeth Jones and others by years with her persona) coming in (with her own song, "Never accept lest than the best") and the bears returning, the famed "stuff is too hot,etc." and "Someone's been sleepin' in my bed", and then the acceptance of Goldilocks, Bob (what a nasty little sourpuss!) warns the animals, getting a rally against "peoples", which Papa tries to counter (with the official signatura song, "Take a Little Lok around you", IMO the best song of the special), but the Bobcat having to leave alone--he'd rather leave the "Peoples" to the animals! LOL.

If you ever catch THIS be sure to see the surprise "animated" surprise ending (writer for this is A.J.Carothers, and the Sherman Brothers wrote the songs, with Friz Freleng and Bing Crosby involved, a LOT of Disney talent--Friz was at first a Disney person before WB existed as an animation unit!).

A long underrated special effects company, best known for science fiction and Star Wars projects, Vand Der Veer Photo effects (now long defunct, apparently) did the effects like Mary Frances Crosby's "Goldilocks" transistions. THe use of her family as the bears, of course, makes it very "Wizard of Oz" like, and this may have a place as much of an odd "TV family special cult" as Hanna-Barbera's 1966 "Alice in Wonderland" starring the voice of Janet Waldo, Sammy Davis,etc. Some other odds and ends about this, one of the character designers is jack of all trades and Playboy regular cartooonists Marty Murphy ("Wait till your Father gets home" for Hanna-Barbera). Cast is well rounded by Kathryn, Bing;s wife, and Avery Schreiber who played Bob Bobcat's pal the Deer and rabbit.-Avery Schreiber and Paul Winchell also did incidental animal voices.Finis.

This was formerly a 1965 Japanese cartoon, "Wonder Three". Names were all distinctly different between these two versions. As both writers write: Bonnie=Bunny Ronnie=Horse Zero=Duck

Bonnie was white with black tipped ears, and if retro-colored (it was B&W) no doubt that Zero would be a green mallard duck (he had a Daffy like ring), and Ronnie would be orange/brown. Character design of the humans was pretty much the same as the other anime/manga cartoons of the sixties, as far as eyes are concerned. The characters, in the open credits especially, were really cartoony, in the scene where they're transformed. Recommend....!! "Bonnie Bunny...and Pony Ronnie laughed when Zero, had no luck..and became a duck"!LOL Classic..I'm the same age as the first poster (lots of time between these three posts, huh?) and second, I think, and saw this in 1967, when "Erika Film Productions,Inc." dubbed and sent this here. From the same folks that brought you Kimba and Gigantor.

AN excellent tribute to THE influence on the Farrelly Brotherss this latest in a long, long line of movies from them shows that....once...once....once....ONCE and for ALL...the Three Stooges, Larry, Moe, and...not Joe Besser..NOT Shemp...but Curly...NOT De Rita bu HOWARD...CAN indeed with new actors and ...EVEN survive in a moder n "Jersey Shore

situation..

This has an orphanage setup with Jane Lynch and Jennifer Hudson and some others playing Catholic nuns, and some very important kid characters.

Sofia Versarga's cast as a girl who sets things in motion with the three stooges, with her husband and the father in law, her being the hot villianess. Oh., and the Jersey shore.

Three "shorts", and a disclaimer by the Farrellies themselves make this fun..even in COLOR!!

This is year for zoo movies, I guess--Mr.Popper's Penguins. The Zookeeper. This one. Based on a real story in my part of the country, this had a newcomer to zookeeping (Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee) and his youngest kid (Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Rosie) attending the place that they suddenly become a zookeeper-a while after the mother dies. The aggressive older kid (Colin Ford as Dylan) and zookeeper (Scarlett Johansen as Kelly Foster), and her younger cousin (Elle Fanning as Lilly) complete what apparently will be an immediate family, along with some other people, and they try to reopen an animal zoo while trying to save as much money, and while the dad tries to get along as a widower.

I'm with poster David Ferguson and others who adore every moment that 7-year old Maggie Elizabeth Jones is on the screen, and unlike some in the responses forum, I enjoy that Elle Fanning and Scarlett Johansen were cast.

And the seeming surprise entry in the coffee shop is worth it.

Arelen Golonka and Mel Blanc must have been struggling with this..sex, drugs, cards, hippies, oh my, as Judy Garland said forty years earlier.

I'm just surprised the kids didn't't sing any songs here. The other shows: Scooby/Josie/Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, then Funky Phantom, Butch Cassidy, Clue Club, and (bringing up Judy Garland's exclamation from Wizard again) Oh My, Goober.

Bad timing, bad design, no wonder it lasted for only 17 episodes one season, and characters using drug abuse (going back to the late 60s Banana Splits and Cattanooga Cats, though those early efforts were admittedly a bit better), caused HB, and later the Smurf like cartoons next decade, 1980s, to bring HB and Filmation down to the worst level anyone could. Thank god for Beavis and Butthead and the late 1920sa-early 1960s. Though I did like "Wait Till your Father Gets Home" & "Inch High Private High". :D

And has since March 1966. This sounds like a Hanna-Barbera version of Alice, not only Janet Waldo as Alice, making her sound like Josie, b ut even Fred and Barney as the Caterpillar, and it is HB. BTW regarding a poster..I don't think Alice had boots, but otherwise neither here nor there. We all know how the classic Lewis Carroll story goes: Bumps her head, finds her way into the television set and therefor Wonderland..well, in H-B's world.

ALso there are both almost all the stock players of HB and some surprises like Hedda hopper...Bill Dana....Zsa Zsa Gabor..and esp.that cheshire cat Sammy Davis Jr.

Worth watching.

What can I day about this that hasn't been said by those above. After "Daffy the Commando", to "Scrap Happy Daffy" (or was that after this one?) Daffy as DRAFT DODGER? Even Daffy wouldn't.. but in (unlike much later and to the day) a very funny fashion he constantly and outrageously runs right into that little man kindly serving him ye ole draft notice, and who looks like Elmer Fudd (though his character's borrowed from a radio comic character of the day, Peavy the Druggist on the "Great Gildersleeze", right down to the "Oh well, now, I wouldn't say that!" shtick.), and does the "Tex Avery/Droopy" bit that itself is equally hard to get away from.

But this is a riot, yet if a later Vietnam or today Sept. the 11th counterpart were done with Daffy, dodging the draft..NO WAY would Daffy be this symphatetic (though I disagree that W.C.Fields "took a back seat" to ANYBODY.)

(To the tune of "Marine's Hymm"-aka "From the Halls of Montezuma") "Oh-oh, the lit-tle man from the dra-aft board/ Is comin' to see me"..then realizes what he's just singing about.

Ian L., not sure if Seely or designated film editor Treg Brown chose the music, though John Seely WAS the boss of the stock music, but seems everybody in the business then worked or moonlighted at various stock libraries, and they were purchased by Seely and his co-producer Ken Nelson at Capitol Records.

In addition, of course, there was original music done for Capitol, and here, or "HARE", is where it gets more confusing:

A number of different composers-George Hormel, Jack Cookerly, Emil Cadkin, John Seely, Bill Loose, Joseph Cacciola, Spencer Moore, and Seely's successor Ole Georg and such later names as Ib Glindemann were credited writers,but even more----people NEVER credited for some of those. Among those was some A listers-- such as David Rose!!!!

Yes, the same one who once married Judy Garland and made all those records!.Mr. "Holiday for Strings" and "The Stripper" himself.

According to researcher Paul Mandell, from John himself---David Rose had "written them" but was expected and very graciously;y sold them "rights free and composer free" (and credit-free, as I have pointed out.)

Another of those ghost writers was Jack Meakin and there were others. (Meakin became among the more noted, in part for George A.Romero's "Night of the Living Dead")

Still also, John Seely was A-not THE-but A distributor of composer Jack Shaindlin's, and possibly Chappell's and various others on their own labels (the composers mentioned above, though only a few wrote original pieces-and boy, did they EVER!-for Capitol, usually had already written for Sam Fox, or Phil Green's solo composition's for UK's EMI Photoplay, and others that wound up in Capitol's connections, and all of this was RELEASED and LABELED as Capitol Hi-Q.)

Whew! So in short----suffice it to say that the music came from a variety of sources.

To another poster: Well, to be honest, on the music matching up, especially with Milt Franklyn, a lot of the Warner Bros.cartoons made at the time, in 1958, like the previous year's "What's Opera Doc?" that continued to be praised, had music going against the action, and Carl Stalling in the heyday in the pre-1950s years, did it much better.

On Elmer Fudd's voice: Neither Mel Blanc nor the radio character actor responsible for the official voice, Arthur Q.Bryan, is used (nor were Daws Butler or Hal Smith, as was assumed in the 1980s.) As probably is already mentioned in the entry credits and the reviews, comedian Dave Barry (not the current humorist!!) tried the hand at doing Elmer's "wewentwess" :) hunter voice, and did it badly,a admittedly. Another irony, Mel Blanc was the narrator heard briefly.

More on the stock cues, relevant only to this particular short (WB did five others during that 1958 musician strike, and even some other projects like the "Bell Science", using this):

Most of John Seely's Capitol stock music like in the sequence with Mel's narration is from the Dramatic series and adding to the eventual cult status of the library, can be heard (again!) "The Night of the Living Dead" and "MST3K" worthy (Bugs proves himself such by commenting on his stone age counterpart) horror flicks from earlier ("The hideous Sun Demon" and "Teenagers from Outer Space!!").

Incidentally, recognizable stock music is in the second half, though to add to the cartoon's bad reputation, that is where Bugs and Elmer meet-it's the "Eccentric Comedy Suite" by David Rose, which graced many a Ruff and Reddy and Yogi/Huck/Meeces show, and others, contractually credited (see my earliest paragraphs, to John Seely and Bill Loose).

The cues were TC-(ThemeCraft) 201, and 300. And that's TC-202 used on the opening. Those number/letter, and in many cases if variants on a cue was done, an addition letter, codes, were used to personalize the publisher-s there's another stock cue used on this, in "Gopher Broke" and THREE times in "Hip Hip Hurry", two others in the Warner Bros. fall 1958 schedule, L-69 Animation Comedy, credited to Zephyr Records producer Spencer Moore. His partner was the separetly credited George Hormel, who used ZR. (Moore had worked at a few other publishing firms.) No doubt this databse and other reviewers will have more information. I got this from odds and ends, including several music blogs, but this is in my words.

Incindetally, just rememebred, the entry credits for this will have other names, too. So I'll just leave it here.

"Ooh, I love this.." Whoops, someone else quoted Garrett's much used catchline.

The reviewer who mentioned this as for the whole family's right on, and to that last poster, to each their own opinion, on the show being a waste (the one that said the episodes should be burned in the lake of filming!) I wish Stacey Moseley had become a major big screen star like SMG had,and that Cariksa Dahlbo had made it, like Sarah M.Gellar, Mira Sorvino and Brittany "That 80s Show"/"Sweet Valley High" Daniel did.

Very funny and surreal show, as already mentioned by others. No high school mentioned either! Just a pictoresque, Victorian like setting with all kinds of weird stuff happening, and songs like "Talk as Sweet as Honey","Pola Dot Pink", and the theme, "Gotta Grow Up Sometime"., Glad to see so many others rememebered it, and I was already thirty when it aired..:)

Fun show for the whole family..

An early Porky short, and for years the oldest produced shown in one of the post-theatrical release television packages, this has Porky the faithful military hero, going to an inventor, who's a chimpanzee who tries out Porky on the plane that the inventor has been tinkering on, only to leave the plane with Porky and in the control of the innocent little children, Little Kitty (by the way, voiced by Bereneice Hansell(her real spelling-11/15/17),NOT Rochelle Hudson) and her "human" doggy friend,(an example of the era's "Dorgan's Syndrome" - Merci Beaucops, F.Gwynplaine MacIntyre and his "Jungle Jitters" (1938) review) based on the earlier Oliver Owl character, and HIS "REAL" (go figure :)) dog (the first two being had debuted with Porky in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat"). (The inventor's placed his command mike on the window stand.) what happens is the plane, reacting to the children's orders to the one kid's dog, scoops up Porky. Anything else will be top secret like the plane was.

I'm glad that Billy Bletcher WAS identified as the Sarge (My copy of historian Graham Webb's 2000 book on these old shorts actually DOES give unnamed voices, but HE only mentions Ms.Hansen, a major mystery, who was NOT Dorothy Varden who was a similar performer) and Joe Dougherty, then the voice of Porky Pig, but I doubt that, that simian inventor (yeah, "Grease Monkey", I get it, folks!) is Bletcher.. Very Unique voice.."Here.. TRY it!" This was the first "Starring" role for Porky Pig, even though he'd done cartoons before as mentioned above and even had in the Beans the Cat entry "Golddiggers of '49", then just recently out, also a PROMINENT role.

This is one of the oddest family films ever...not animated, not CGI, not puppets, stop motion, dolls, but birds, with the occasional dubbed in voices. I think the several original choral songs here may have been on the Hit Parade around this time....and yes, it definitely aired on TV years ago! I noted George Burton died on December 8,1955, five years before my b'day.

For us young at heart. (I wish there was a heart icon to insert.:))

I'm listening to a mp3 file of costar Elizabeth Walters-anybody know more on her?-tell the story and did a review on Prelinger Archives last night..

For many years it was the ONLY thing that the name Ken Murray brought to my mind, and not surprisingly...I had forgotten that it was not indepently done as I'd thought but at Republic Studios.

In a weird way, I sort of liked this as Daffy actually HAS good authority in a way to go after Speedy -the latter's musical mayhem-and in the main parts of the short, the two don't fight but go against Emprorer Nero and his lions. But yeah, this is far from the best. No wonder the two retired. BTW Marty, I've seen you on another forum I use doing those Daffy-Speedy threads..my advice is to watch it...

Oddly, the open theme music is somewhat good, and likewise the payoff gag at the end. I noted something. Besides Blanc doing all the voices on these, there is no star billing for the duck and mouse in these shorts, as with the newer characters - Norman Normal, Merlin the Magic Mouse,etc.etc.etc.

The open music, like that one most is heavily compressed even in the original version as shown theatrically, as far as I know.

Pretty odd, form what I saw...Alexander Laszlo is credited with music editing for the stock music. He was a 1940s film and radio editor and had his own plucked string/horror movie music library called "Structural Music". Among his gifts to culture.."My Little Margie"'s (1952)'s theme. Wish I had a way to see this without the 'Bots! Inetresting as WileE_2005 said, no guard gates back then! -But they were there on drawbridges..:)- and agreed, great old car styles! Mike and those MST3K bots needa chill out!! Glad to see this was pointed out. Usually, when I think of this kind of films, Jerry Fairbanks Productions is the VERY FIRST THING that springs to mind, but someone else did this.

PS If you like this kind of film, the classics One Got Fat and such like that would be great..companions to anti drug 1960s and WWII cautionary films.

In reply to rjc(?)5365, it wasn't Sally Struthers or Fred Welker (never the Bamm-Bamm voice, which was Jay North as mentioned originally-and it is FRANK welker, by the way while I'm at it!) in 1979 but Russi(e) Taylor -usually in annoying Strawberry Shortcake roles but hiliarous as the Simpsons's Martin(?)--as Pebbles and Mike Sheehan, related or not to reporter Doug and pacifist Cindy (ha ha, Pebbles's rival's name in the first series) as P&BB. North and Mickey Stevens voiced a few 1972 appearances.Yuck. Agreed with the other criticism here...the original are a classic 166 group of episodes, but sorry, and Richard Fuller, the show is inferior to "American Graffiti" .. as for someone saying stay away from it..(grin) I already have. and I may be the better for it!!!!