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Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Nicole
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Raymond Sierra
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . is a precious birthright gift, NOT to be taken lightly or polluted by TV personalities desperately tackling foreign tongue-twisters with spraying spittle in their misguided Crusade to be "Politically Correct," we learn again in this ahead-of-its-time animated short from the 1950s, DRIP-ALONG DAFFY. About 5:46 into this 7:20-minute-long cartoon, Sheriff Daffy Duck gives outlaw Nasty Canasta an ultimatum beginning, "Listen, hombre, if you're not out of town by sundown . . . !" Only Daffy pronounces the second (as subtitled) word here to rhyme with "Bomber," NOT the PC "Bombay." Though those toothy TV jackals would content themselves to use the latter enunciation, Daffy's straight-talking from the hip translates this H-Word of dubious origin into proper Americanese. Daffy's challenge leads to Canasta's downfall, presaged by a series of camera angle viewpoints later stolen Carte Blanche by the director of Gary Cooper's definitive American Western, HIGH NOON. Today's parents would be well-advised to inoculate their kids with Classic Looney Tunes, before America gets just as contaminated as France.
slymusic
"Drip-Along Daffy" is a superb Daffy Duck/Porky Pig cartoon Western directed by Chuck Jones. Daffy (labeled as "Western-Type Hero") and Porky ("Comic Relief") travel on horseback to a corrupt little town, which they hope to clean up. As you might expect, Daffy is full of arrogant confidence about his abilities as a sheriff, but he is completely ineffectual! The unshaven Porky, meanwhile, is just on hand as Daffy's stooge, but Porky ultimately becomes the hero of this cartoon.Here are my favorite scenes from "Drip-Along Daffy" (don't read any further until after you have seen this cartoon). Among plenty of opening sight gags is an intersection where stoplights control the gunfight traffic. Watch how Daffy and Porky physically react to the brew they drink. During Daffy's showdown with Nasty Canasta, the numerous Western camera angles are FANTASTIC; Porky uses a miniature toy nutcracker soldier to help the ineffective Daffy defeat his archenemy.Carl Stalling's music score for "Drip-Along Daffy" is GREAT! Listen, for example, to the wonderful piano accompaniment as Daffy enters the saloon. Or how about Porky's song "The Flower of Gower Gulch" during the opening credits?
Mightyzebra
With an unmistakable Western theme, this Daffy Duck short is almost bursting with gags, some of them only all right, but most of them are very good! With the characters good, the plot good, the setting good and the jokes good - how else could this Daffy Duck episode live up to a good standard. Oh yes - why not the theme and the hero!? This episode introduces Daffy Duck as a "Western Type Hero" and Porky as a "Comedy Relief". Then a "Lawless Western Town" is introduced and as we see the town-folk are not doing well at all. Just when all hope seems lost, Daffy Duck shows up on his trusty steed with his sheriff star badge and he gallops to the rescue! He and Porky have got a very funny and surprising adventure ahead of them.Good for Daffy Duck fans interested in the little black duck's modern episodes and for people who like funny western cartoon shorts, enjoy "Drip-Along Daffy"! :-)
Akbar Shahzad (rapt0r_claw-1)
Followed-up by My Little Duckaroo, Drip-Along Daffy is one of my favorite cartoons. Daffy is the star, playing a Western-type hero who becomes sheriff of a town in disarray, accompanied by his one-man fanclub, comedy relief in Porky Pig. The antagonist is Nasty Canasta, the core of all the trouble. So if our inept hero can rid the town of Canasta in a one-on-one shootout, all the problems will be solved. With Daffy responsible for the fate of the town, the prospect seems bleak, doesn't it? The animation is excellent. Jones' simple use of subtle expressions is at its glorious best here. Canasta can't really be called a character since he's just a one-dimensional prop, part of the background for Daffy and the show-stealing Porky. For any fan of the greedy, overly confident Daffy, a must-see.