Bosko the Doughboy | |
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Directed by | Hugh Harman |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
Starring | Johnny Murray Rudolf Ising[1] |
Music by | Frank Marsales |
Animation by | Rollin Hamilton Max Maxwell |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date | October 17, 1931 |
Running time | 7 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Bosko the Doughboy is a one-reel 1931 short subject animated cartoon, part of the Bosko series.[2] It was directed by Hugh Harman, and first released on October 17, 1931 as part of the Looney Tunes series from Harman-Ising Productions and distributed by Warner Bros.[3]
The film score was composed by Frank Marsales.
The cartoon opens with images of explosions, gunfire, and heavy artillery; one character even fires into the camera. It is World War I, and the ever-cheerful Bosko is a doughboy eating down in a trench. Enemy fire destroys his meal, and later a picture of his girlfriend, Honey. Bosko shows a rare moment of anger but is quickly cheered up by a fellow soldier. The two begin to dance, only to be interrupted by more gunfire. Bosko finally decides to fight back and downs an enemy bomber (actually a pelican) by using a fellow soldier as a cannon. A friendly hippopotamus is shot down by heavy artillery, which Bosko destroys with a pair of Longjohns-turned-catapult. He then saves the wounded soldier by unzipping his navel and retrieving the shell inside. The projectile explodes anyway, turning the already black-faced Bosko even blacker and prompting him to exclaim "Mammy!" à la Al Jolson.