Tom Turk and Daffy

Tom Turk and Daffy is a 1944 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[2] The cartoon was released on February 12, 1944, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.[3]

Tom Turk and Daffy
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Story byMichael Maltese
Tedd Pierce (both credited as The Staff)
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringVoice characterizations:
Mel Blanc
Billy Bletcher (uncredited)[1]
Music byMusical direction:
Carl W. Stalling
Orchestra:
Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation byCharacter animation:
Ken Harris
Uncredited animation:
Ben Washam
Robert Cannon
Layouts byBernyce Polifka (uncredited)
Backgrounds byBernyce Polifka (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • February 12, 1944 (1944-02-12)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The voices of Daffy and Porky were done by Mel Blanc, while Tom Turk was voiced by Billy Bletcher.[1]

Plot

The cartoon opens with Daffy making a snowman while singing a distorted version of Jingle Bells. At a certain moment he starts to hear some gunshots and a powerful crash: this is the moment when appears a turkey named Tom Turk. Tom begs Daffy to hide him because he's being chased by Porky Pig and he doesn't want at all to die ("He's after me, he's gonna kill me: don't let him kill me! I'm too young to die! I've got my whole life before me: love, travel, good books!"); the duck agrees and starts to move him into lots of places: first under a big pile of snow, then into a hole, into a trunk, and finally even into the duck's very snowman. When Porky approaches Daffy and tells him to look for a "d-d-darn old t-t-turkey", the duck constantly avoids to reveal where his friend actually is ("Well, I ain't talking, see? My lips are sealed!"), but when Porky tells Daffy his intentions to serve Tom as dinner with chestnut dressing, mashed potatoes, green peas, cranberry sauce and candied yams, the duck literally turns into a stool pigeon because of the "nasty, delicious yams" quickly moving the turkey in front of him and then revealing his real position with lots of arrows and signs. While conversating with the pig, Daffy repeatedly turns as well from angel into devil and viceversa: he wants to respect the promise he did to Tom but he also thinks about Porky's delicacies. Due to Daffy's bad behaviour (Tom actually addresses him to the audience as "quisling" after referring to him repeatedly as a "pal"), Tom gets angry and puts its tail on the duck's and starts gobbling and sneaking into the snow. Therefore, Porky starts chasing Daffy mistaking him for a real turkey, careless about Daffy pointing out his misunderstanding ("Turkey?! Who's the turkey?! Now wait a minute, Myles Standish, I'm a duck! Quack quack quack quack! I can swim: observe!"), but he's always defeated by the duck first with snowballs (including one in which Daffy was hidden with a mallet ready to beat the pig on the head, thing he actually does), then blocks of ice and eventually with an icy bridge built as well by the duck, whom Porky mistakes as a toll man even giving him 10 cents. As Porky stops realizing to be cheated by Daffy, he starts to make funny faces and even turning into a bottle and a lollipop while these words appear on screen: DUNCE, DOPE, SUCKER. Hit by lots of anger and seek of revenge, Porky runs after him again but this time in a so fast way to make him even turn into a tank. The parts of the cartoon's beginning between the duck and the turkey are now inverted: this time is Daffy who desperately begs Tom to hide him using the turkey's same lines ("I'm too young to die! Hide me!") , but to take revenge as the same way as Porky wanted to, Tom repeatedly tells the duck to hide "here" and "there" while moving him incessantly from a place to another into the sunset as well as the cartoon ends.

Cast

Home media

See also

References
  1. Hartley, Steven (19 May 2018). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 423. Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  2. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 147. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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