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] Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce are both the writers of the short, and are credited here as "The Staff".

Tom Turk and Daffy
Directed bySupervision:
Charles M. Jones
Story byMichael Maltese
Tedd Pierce (As The Staff)
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Billy Bletcher (unc.)[1]
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byKen Harris
Ben Washam (unc.)
Robert Cannon (unc.)
Rudy Larriva (unc.)
Layouts byBernyce Polifka (unc.)
Backgrounds byBernyce Polifka (unc.)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Release date
  • February 12, 1944 (1944-02-12)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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

Plot

In a cold snowy day, Daffy Duck is making a snowman until he hears gunfire in the distance. A turkey, named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from Porky Pig, who here is portrayed as a pilgrim hunting for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went. However, he eventually give in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including candied yams.

Tom Turk, mad at Daffy's perfidious attitude, digs under the snowman and plucks his back feathers onto Daffy, who was breaking down for being a stool pigeon to him. Porky then mistakes Daffy as the turkey he was hunting, and proceeds to chase him across the snowy landscape. Back to Tom, who was building another snowman, Daffy meets up with him again, and begs Tom to help him hide from Porky. Tom agrees. and "attempts" to hide Daffy in different places, but finds all of them "fruitless". The cartoon ends with Tom continuously "hiding" Daffy in different places into the night.

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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