Pooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.Pooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.Pooch the Pup, his camera, and his girlfriend go to Africa to make a movie of a giant gorilla. Things proceed roughly as in King Kong (1933), though with various comic twists.
- Director
- Writers
- Stars
Photos
Tex Avery
- King Klunk Saying Ow They got me
- (uncredited)
Walter Lantz
- Two Pooch the Pup Vocal Effects
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Walter Lantz(uncredited)
- Writers
- Les Kline(uncredited)
- Walter Lantz(uncredited)
- Manuel Moreno(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the 1930's, a lot of American horror films came to Britain and the British Board of Film Censors gave them an "H", which stood for "Horrific". This cartoon was the first one to be given the "H" certificate.
- GoofsMargie the bird rests on a small branch that doesn't appear until the moment she lands on it.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Native Girl: Goona-goona!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hail to the King - A King named Kong (2014)
- SoundtracksYear of Jubilo
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Walter Lantz's amusing cartoon parody of KING KONG
While back issues of Mad Magazine afford us the opportunity to study contemporary movie parodies since the 1950s, KING KLUNK, produced by the Walter Lantz animation unit at Universal Pictures, gives us a rare opportunity to see what happens when a famous monster film from 1933, KING KONG, is parodied in a nine-minute cartoon the same year. The hero here is Pooch the Pup, billed prominently in the credits, a dog character apparently modeled on Bimbo from the Betty Boop cartoons. He plays a filmmaker who journeys to the island of King Klunk with his unnamed light-colored female dog girlfriend. He takes with him a camera fastened to a tripod, which, in the fashion of cartoons of the era, walks on its own through the jungle.
The natives on the island are portrayed in the typically stereotyped big-lipped fashion of cartoon "cannibals" in the 1930s. However, this cartoon does something really interesting in the midst of the racial stereotyping. You may recall that in KING KONG, the island natives had picked a girl from their village to be sacrificed to Kong, but once they spot blonde Fay Wray they completely forget about the native girl, who's never seen or heard from again in the film. Well, this cartoon doesn't forget her. When giant gorilla King Klunk spots Pooch's girlfriend, he decides he'd rather have her than the native sacrifice, so he deftly picks up the girlfriend as she's walking behind Pooch and replaces her with the native girl, all without alerting Pooch who then takes the native girl's hand. When Pooch turns and sees her and reacts with shock, the native girl declares "Goona," presumably the word in her language for love, and begins chasing Pooch with great ardor.
The action quickly shifts to the pursuit of Klunk and Pooch's girl and includes a fight between Klunk and a dinosaur, as in the original, and an encounter between Klunk and a dinosaur egg, followed quickly by a voyage to New York, Klunk in chains on a Broadway stage, and Klunk's rampage through the city. (Just as Kong indiscriminately chomped on New Yorkers or dropped them to their deaths on the street below, Klunk picks up handfuls of fleeing pedestrians and tosses them off to the side.) Klunk takes Pooch's girlfriend again and climbs with her to the top of a building identified only as the "Broken Arms." Pooch takes to the air in a plane and combats Klunk singlehanded.
In the final shot, the native girl makes a surprise return appearance with a gag bit that clearly broke a prevailing racial taboo of the era. It's quite a clever and subversive bombshell in an otherwise uninspired and not very funny cartoon.
Klunk himself is, for the most part, a growling, drooling, fanged gorilla monster and, despite being hit with a native Cupid's arrow, is never quite convincing as the lovestruck ape Kong was in the live-action film. The match with the dinosaur is fun, though, with Pooch providing blow-by-blow commentary. This cartoon is found in the "Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection" DVD box set.
The natives on the island are portrayed in the typically stereotyped big-lipped fashion of cartoon "cannibals" in the 1930s. However, this cartoon does something really interesting in the midst of the racial stereotyping. You may recall that in KING KONG, the island natives had picked a girl from their village to be sacrificed to Kong, but once they spot blonde Fay Wray they completely forget about the native girl, who's never seen or heard from again in the film. Well, this cartoon doesn't forget her. When giant gorilla King Klunk spots Pooch's girlfriend, he decides he'd rather have her than the native sacrifice, so he deftly picks up the girlfriend as she's walking behind Pooch and replaces her with the native girl, all without alerting Pooch who then takes the native girl's hand. When Pooch turns and sees her and reacts with shock, the native girl declares "Goona," presumably the word in her language for love, and begins chasing Pooch with great ardor.
The action quickly shifts to the pursuit of Klunk and Pooch's girl and includes a fight between Klunk and a dinosaur, as in the original, and an encounter between Klunk and a dinosaur egg, followed quickly by a voyage to New York, Klunk in chains on a Broadway stage, and Klunk's rampage through the city. (Just as Kong indiscriminately chomped on New Yorkers or dropped them to their deaths on the street below, Klunk picks up handfuls of fleeing pedestrians and tosses them off to the side.) Klunk takes Pooch's girlfriend again and climbs with her to the top of a building identified only as the "Broken Arms." Pooch takes to the air in a plane and combats Klunk singlehanded.
In the final shot, the native girl makes a surprise return appearance with a gag bit that clearly broke a prevailing racial taboo of the era. It's quite a clever and subversive bombshell in an otherwise uninspired and not very funny cartoon.
Klunk himself is, for the most part, a growling, drooling, fanged gorilla monster and, despite being hit with a native Cupid's arrow, is never quite convincing as the lovestruck ape Kong was in the live-action film. The match with the dinosaur is fun, though, with Pooch providing blow-by-blow commentary. This cartoon is found in the "Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection" DVD box set.
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- BrianDanaCamp
- Feb 1, 2009
Details
- Runtime9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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