Space hero Daffy battles Marvin the Martian for control of Planet X. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 8.1/10 | |
Released: | July 25, 1953 | |
Runtime: | 7 min | |
Genres: | Animation Comedy Family Short Sci-Fi | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Cartoons | |
Cast: | Mel Blanc | |
Crew: | Chuck Jones Michael Maltese | |
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Duck Dodgers is number 4 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons Of All Time. Besides some other appearances, it was shown before the original Star Wars film & it was in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Finally in 2003 Daffy got his own tv show as Duck Dodgers that was so popular it ran for about 3 years in one of the best animated series.
If anyone’s ever seen the old Buck Rogers comics & serial cliff-hanger films, this is the toony equivalent. This was made a couple of years after a Buck Rogers tv show happened, and it was made by the legendary Chuck Jones team that included Michael Maltese as writer, Ben Washam & Maurice Nobel provided most of the look & feel with the character sets & backgrounds which have a really distinctive style that’s easy to spot. The great Carl Stalling provides all the musical cues, quoting memorably from lots of stuff including Powerhouse which is in lots of Warner Bros cartoons & is known as a toony tune.
We grew up with the Gil Gerard Buck Rogers that had Erin Gray & Pamela Hensley in the 80’s. It’s not wacky like this, but oddly, that one does have Mel Blanc in it. Yep.
Here Mel voices Daffy & Porky as a comedy team that might be sort of Laurel & Hardy like. It’s similar to the comedy the two characters did in the Errol Flynn Robin Hood spoof where Porky gets to poke fun at what a fool Daffy is. Mel also serves as the then unnamed Marvin The Martian in his 2nd toon appearance and a scientist.