Little Beau Porky

Little Beau Porky
Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	November 14, 1936
Run time	8:10
Starring	Joe Dougherty Billy Bletcher
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation	Robert Bently Nelson Demorest
Director(s)	Frank Tash
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Little Beau Porky is the seventy-ninth short in the Looney Tunes theatrical series. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 14, 1936. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Frank Tashlin.

Porky, working under the French Foreign Legion, is ordered to scrub camels while the other soldiers ride off to find a riffraff on the loose.

Detailed summary

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Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Commandant	Billy Bletcher
Porky Pig	Joe Dougherty
Ali Mode	Billy Bletcher

Organizations

• French Foreign Legion

Locations

• Earth
  • Africa
    • Sahara Desert
      • Foreign Legion fortress

Objects

• "Camelgram" letter

Music

The score was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 14, 1936

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on the 1924 novel Beau Geste and its multiple film adaptations. It is also a pun on the nursery rhyme "Little Bo Peep".
  • It is also the first animated Warner Bros. short to play on the two subjects, preceding the 1952 Merrie Melodies cartoon Little Beau Pepé.
• The MPAA certificate number is 2721.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • September 19, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Porky Pig 101 on DVD.