Pigs Is Pigs

Name: Pigs Is Pigs
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Music
Released: 21 May 1954
Rating: 7.55
Cast: Gary Owens, Bill Thompson, Bob Hamlin, Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft

Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.

Year: 1954

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Music

Studio: Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures

Director: Jack Kinney

Cast: Gary Owens, Bill Thompson, Bob Hamlin, Bill Lee, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith

Crew: Jack Kinney (Director), Leo Salkin (Story), Ellis Parker Butler (Original Story), Walt Disney (Producer), Oliver Wallace (Original Music Composer), Dan MacManus (Animation)

Runtime: 10 minutes

Release: May 21, 1954

IMDb: 7.55/10 by 19 users

Popularity: 2

Country: United States of America

Language: English

Budget: 0

Revenue: 0

Keyword : based on novel or book, short film

Comment

CinemaSerf 2024, Feb 10

"Flannery" is the fastidious railway station master who speaks in rhyme and encounters an irate Scotsman who has come to collect his two pet guinea pigs. He wants to charge him 48 cents for the pig rate, the owner wants to pay 44 cents for the pet rate. A poetical battle ensues in the office before the Scot storms out and a slew of paperwork now ensues. Who is correct? Well it doesn't really matter when they start breeding and soon there are loads of the critters, then more, before a zoology professor rules that the owner was right all along. Then an huge administration is mobilised to amend the rules. Meantime, poor old "Flannery" now has 600 boxes of the animals and owner has gone awol. Leave well alone next time he thinks! It's quite fun this, and the rhyme works quite creatively to swipe at bloody-mindedness, red tape and we've even a short burst of "On the Bonnie, Bonnie banks"...