The Lone Stranger and Porky

The Lone Stranger and Porky
Title card
Directed byRobert Clampett
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byIsadore Ellis
Robert Cannon
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • January 7, 1939 (1939-01-07)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lone Stranger and Porky is a 1939 American animated comedy short film directed by Robert Clampett.[1] The cartoon was released on January 7, 1939. It is part of the Looney Tunes series and the 51st cartoon to feature Porky Pig. It is one in a number of experimental Looney Tunes films directed by Clampett, which he accomplished by exploiting the loophole of using Porky Pig to a bare minimum.[2][3]

Plot

The film is mostly non-verbal outside of the humorous narration. The Lone Stranger, a parody of the Lone Ranger, serves justice in 1865 after the American Civil War. He lives in a hideout that remains undiscovered despite searchlights literally pointing to their direction and rides his horse for the entire day until he sleeps.

Porky drives a stagecoach while the narrator summons a villain, who slams traffic lights down a cliff to stop Porky and holds him at gunpoint. The Lone Stranger's Native American scout Prompto (a parody of Tonto) spies on them and reports through a television broadcaster to the Lone Stranger's magic mirror, which notifies him of the incident. The villain and his horse use a tree branch to incapacitate the Lone Stranger and shoots him, but somehow destroys the cliff near him without hurting him. The Lone Stranger and the villain engage in a fistfight and the former is kicked off a cliff, leading to a literal cliffhanger which is solved by the Lone Stranger walking up the cliff and slamming the villain into a boulder, which cracks and forms a jail cell around him. Meanwhile, the villain's horse has no intention to fight the Lone Stranger's horse and instead falls in love with her, somehow producing numerous children, including a horse resembling his father, who follow the Lone Stranger after Porky is freed.

Home media

The Lone Stranger and Porky is available on disc 3 of the Porky Pig 101 DVD set.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 80. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Parten, James (April 14, 2020). "1938-39 Looney Tunes: New Patterns Emerge". Cartoon Research. Retrieved July 14, 2026.
  4. ↑ Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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