Oh boy, here's one of my favorite cartoons I used to watch after school starting in 1953. It's directed by Frank Tashlin aka Tish Tash, Frank was an interesting guy, he started in cartoons and switched over to movie director in 1951. He directed movies like THE LEMON DROP KID, SON OF PALEFACE, ARTISTS AND MODELS, THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?, ROCK-A-BYE BABY, THE GEISHA BOY, CINDERFELLA, SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, WHO'S MINDING THE STORE?, THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY, THE ALPHABET MURDERS, THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT and more...
It's a dark and stormy night, Porky and his brothers are there with Petunia for the reading of their late Uncle Solomon's will. The kindly Lawyer Goodwill has brought all the official documents concerning the uncle's estate.
Of course Uncle Solomon is none other than, who else, Oliver Hardy!
So, Lawyer Goodwill reads the will, and, looks like he will get it all if anything should happen to the brothers and sister! Now wait a minute... Porky and Petunia are brother and sister, in later cartoons they were boyfriend and girlfriend! Like, what the Hell's going on here Frank?!!
Lawyer Goodwill leaves the house in the storm but goes directly to the basement, where, he has a complete mad lab with all kinds of dangerous poisons and concoctions! He grabs the Jekyll and Hyde Juice and fixes himself a glassful...
He slams it down, but........
NADA!
He goes over to his electric mixer and tries again.
It works like a charm! He transforms into Mr. Hyde and tells the audience that he's going to get rid of the pigs, and, there's nothing they can do about it! Hyde also calls out a guy in the third row, he calls him a softie and later a cream puff! Gawd, he's hideous!!
Now the fun begins!.. Hyde turns the lights off and one by one, all the brothers disappear.
Luckily, Porky and Petunia both duck behind the couch before they also disappear!
Here's what Hyde has in mind for the pigs, all he needs now are those last two...
Upstairs, Petunia has been captured, and Porky has a few run-ins with the creepy monster!
Porky finds the others in the basement and has the door locked to keep the thing out. But, Hyde easily breaks the door apart...
And just as Hyde's ready to grab Porky, a theater seat comes hurdling into the scene from nowhere and conks the monster on the head, and after he hits the wall from the slide...
He ends up in the stocks, defeated! He asks who threw the chair? He hears.. I did! Hyde asks .. Who are you? The voice says.. The guy in the thoid row, you cream puff! Join us again tomorrow for our Saturday evening post, here at The Dungeon!!..
1 comment:
I always thought it was cool when cartoon characters broke the Fourth Wall to address the audience directly. They did it years & years before TV & movies did it. But this is even cooler because an audience member becomes the hero the story. How cool, right?
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