Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.
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Billy Bletcher
- Gold Thief
- (uncredited)
Tommy Bond
- Beans
- (uncredited)
The Californians
- Cowboy Vocalists
- (uncredited)
Joe Dougherty
- Porky Pig
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Bernice Hansen
- Little Kitty
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Tex Avery(uncredited)
- Cal Howard(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsThe year when the action takes place is established by a calendar inside a covered wagon, showing '1849' and 'July' with the '1' for the first day in the third box on the first line (usually indicating a Tuesday). July 1, 1849 was a Sunday.
- Alternate versionsThis cartoon was colorized in 1995, with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white film. This process preserved the quality of the animation in the original cartoon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery (2004)
- SoundtracksYou're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline
(1903) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Armstrong
Lyrics by Richard H. Gerard
Sung by a quartet
Featured review
genetic mutations get so weird that a pig fathers a cat
Porky Pig's second appearance (and Tex Avery's directorial debut) does feature a few racial stereotypes, but overall, "Gold Diggers of '49" made me laugh. Set at the time of the 1849 California gold rush, Porky and Beans are prospectors, and Beans wants to marry Porky's daughter Kitty (the three characters got introduced in "I Haven't Got a Hat" earlier in 1935, and Porky looks as if he needs triple bypass surgery). Part of this involves Beans guarding a little something of Porky's.
If you've seen any of Tex Avery's cartoons, then you should know what sorts of things to expect here. The gags aren't quite as zany as I might have hoped for, but I try to imagine how hilarious they must have looked the first time that moviegoers ever saw them. If absolutely nothing else, this should be of interest to cartoon fans as a look into the Termite Terrace crowd's early days. Worth seeing.
As for the question of how a pig fathered a cat...well, in cartoons things don't have to make sense.
If you've seen any of Tex Avery's cartoons, then you should know what sorts of things to expect here. The gags aren't quite as zany as I might have hoped for, but I try to imagine how hilarious they must have looked the first time that moviegoers ever saw them. If absolutely nothing else, this should be of interest to cartoon fans as a look into the Termite Terrace crowd's early days. Worth seeing.
As for the question of how a pig fathered a cat...well, in cartoons things don't have to make sense.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Dec 19, 2007
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- Золотоискатели 49-го
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- Runtime8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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