Jerky Turkey
A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear wearing an "Eat at Joe's" sandwich sign. The turkey harnesses the power of gags to save himself.
From the archive
A Home Front cartoon by Tex Avery. Release date: 7 April 1945. Quicktime version. Plot taken from IMDb: The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock and found a colony. A very large number of Pilgrims can be seen standing in line... for their cigarette rations. A Pilgrim goes hunting for Thanksgiving dinner. He meets a black market turkey.
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- Director
- Tex Avery
- Starring
- Daws Butler, Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Frank Graham, Leone LeDoux, Pat McGeehan
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