This is How Movies Should Be Made

Perfect cast and a good story

Expected more

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

. . . Warner Bros.' Looney Tuners always have been "unstuck in time." GOLD DIGGERS OF '49 probably gave FIVE author Kurt Vonnegut himself fits when he first viewed this as a youngster. (Of course, the World appreciates that the adult Mr. Vonnegut was able to harvest the seeds sown in his Imagination by '49 in order to chronicle Billy's amazing travels.) The opening sequence of '49 implies that it might be based upon some small incident of the California Gold Rush (which U.S. schools USED to teach began at Sutter's Mill in 1849; now that Politically Correct Trivia has replaced a Common Core of Facts for America's kiddies, no one under Age 50 knows WHY San Francisco's NFL team is called the 49'Ers). However, Porky Pig is soon seen tooling around in a 60-years-premature Model T, and later Beans pilots a Bonneville Salt Flats speedster post-dating this cartoon by decades. Furthermore, '49 champions Interspecies Marriage with the Union of Beans and Porky's daughter, and it shows that racial identity is as fluid as all of Today's genetic testing TV ads would seem to suggest, as this animated short transforms two Asian Men into a pair of Black Males.

At the time this cartoon was made, Porky Pig (of course to be one of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies biggest stars) and Beans (the Boston cat who sadly didn't catch on), had been introduced to viewers as schoolkids in 'I Haven't Got a Hat'. That was a charming cartoon with strong characterisations.'Gold Diggers ...' makes both characters into adults, and not only that, Beans wants to marry Porky's daughter (who appears to be another cat, and not a pig ...). To do this he needs to get into Porky's good books by finding and guarding gold.Some fun gags (Beans driving a car so fast he turns into a blur of lines) and the interest factor of seeing another embryonic version of Porky Pig - still not quite the classic version we know and love - makes this film more important that it perhaps would have been without those associations.

'Beans' is a golddigger in '49 and to many surprise he actually finds something, just as the sleepy town he's living in had no high hopes anymore (as we see in the introduction).Beans instead of keeping the gold (that comes in coins, very handy indeed) for himself is telling everybody in town, including Porky Pig whose daughter he wants to marry. I love it when they find a book called 'how to find gold', it says 'Start to Dig!'.Then enter a villain who steals what appears to be a sack of gold (but really was only Porky's lunch) but Beans gets it back in his supercar.Not a lot going on in this cartoon, a bit racist at times but nothing to get too excited about on all accounts. 5/10.

It's 1849 and prospectors are searching for gold in Red Gulch. Our hero Beans finds it by way of a slot machine and inspires a small town to join the gold rush. There are lots of captions to move the story along, although they never explain what kind of animal Beans is. I suppose he look a bit like Felix the cat, but then most of the characters in the thirties did. Still the Warner brothers must have had high hopes for Beans, as he gets the honour of saying "That's all folks" at the end. Lots of silly animals appear, including an unnecessary barbershop quartet and a big fat pig who seems to be in charge of things. Could this slob really be Porky? He has the stutter, but that is the only recognizable feature.Enter the villain employing an impressive lasso gun to steal Porky's most prized possession. If beans gets it back Porky tells him he can literally have his daughter. Luckily for Beans the girl does not look like her father but seems to be of the same unidentified black and white species as our hero. The chase scene features some early examples of the kind of lunacy that would make Supervisor Fred (Tex) Avery famous in later years, but the pace is much slower. The art of animation was so new at this time, that just seeing funny animals riding mules and horses, driving cars and playing racial stereotypes was good enough for a laugh. 4 out of 10