It's a Joke, Son! (1947)
1947 · Feature film · 63 min · dir. Benjamin Stoloff
The Funniest Man of the Year in the Happiest Hit in Years!
- Comedy
Synopsis
It's a Joke, Son! is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff featuring radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a character on Fred Allen's radio program and later the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. The film was the first American production for Eagle-Lion Films, and although it was produced on a very small budget compared to other Hollywood films, it was a box-office disappointment; one theater chain removed the film after less than a…
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Benjamin Stoloff
- Writer
- Robert E. Kent
- Studio
- Bryan Foy Productions
- Released
- 1947-01-15
- Running time
- 63 minutes
Cast & crew
- Benjamin Stoloff Director
Kenny Delmar
Una Merkel
June Lockhart- Kenneth Farrell
Douglass Dumbrille
Jimmy Conlin
Matt Willis
Ralph Sanford
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · to the former critiqes: p'shaw! I say p'shaw!... · Pavws · 2006-09-17
If you want to know where the Warner Bros. character of Foghorn Leghorn came from, then I say set y'self down, kick your feet up, grab y'self a tall cool mint julip with a twist of southern word play and allow yourself some light humour in the vein of that lovable loud-mouth cartoon chicken, animated rooster that is... This ain't no Eddie Muphy or Dennis Miller filled with cutting scatalogical joking, just some goofy olde fashion-ed jest jousting, querky quipping and better than average slapschitick done in a style thet requires a palet of a more genteel type to appretiate the suttlah humahs…
★★★★ · It's a joke son! · DJ Psychomike · 2009-05-22
The Civil War has gone through many definitions since the 1860's. The war fought for the tariffs to build the railroads and displace the Indians became a war to end slavery. Reconstruction brought punishment to the South, and by the Spanish American War the Civil War became a reason to celebrate the heroism of all sides. The notion of the Old South grew up in this period and would lead to GONE WITH THE WIND and this comedic character. Lost in history was the thousands held in jail without charges during the war, Lincoln issuing an arrest warrent for the head of the Supreme Court, shutting…
★★★★ · Must be a yankee! · Hedley Lamarr · 2013-07-26
I love this movie! Delmar should have made more. And some of you guys need to just relax and watch a movie for the pure entertainment value of it, and stop judging everything! You know what they (Senator Claghorn)says; Go ahead and laugh! It's good for the soul.
★★★★ · Foghorn Claghorn · Danial · 2006-09-19
A thoroughly pleasant and disarming little comedy. Well worth the watch if you are tired of watching what passes for comedy today. And who doesn't like Foghorn or Claghorn when they say "It's a joke, son!"
★★★ · The movie was OK. · Kodachrome · 2012-07-22
It did seem a bit slow in parts, but entertaining overall. I did observe that there were no blacks in this movie about the South. I guess that didn't seem so strange in 1947, but seems weird in 2012. It was interesting to see the actual character from which Foghorn Leghorn was taken. A similar thing happened when Olive Oyl was created using ZaSu Pitts. They couldn't do that today without fear of litigation. Just ask Joustin Beaver.
★★★ · I give it 3 Mint Juleps *** · kareneliot · 2010-01-03
An entertaining one-hour long look into the "Mint Julep Culture" of the South. And... wow, June Lockhart was so YOUNG in this.
