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 Published On Oct 21, 2018

Legendary animator Fred Tex Avery is credited with creating Daffy Duck. Daffy is a cornerstone of the Warner Bros stable of animated characters.
Daffy Duck first appeared in Director Tex Avery's short 'Porky's Duck Hunt', a Looney Tunes cartoon, starring Porky Pig, and released in 1937.
Little more than a minor supporting player, this Daffy Duck is not that funny and is different from the Daffy Duck that was soon to make the entire world laugh.
The audience instantly loved the loud-mouthed, crazy duck from the moment he uttered his first lines, "Don't let it worry ya, skipper, I'm just a crazy darn fool duck."
Steve Schneider calls Duck Amuck " One of the few unarguable masterpieces of American animation."
The first great Daffy Duck cartoon is probably You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940).
But Daffy's legendary status in brilliant and timeless comedy shorts really began during the World War II years.
In 1940s Daffy appeared in propaganda films. These cartoons include 1943's Daffy the Commando (where he hits Hitler over the head) 1944's Plane Daffy and 1945's Draftee Daffy.
A short called Der Fuehrer's Face featured Daffy Duck in a nightmare that had him playing a Nazi for Hitler's SS.
1950s were considered Daffy Duck's greedy years. Cold War coupled with the fear of communism showed Daffy greedy and power - hungry in most masterpiece cartoons from 1953-1957.
Daffy the commando is a 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes War Time Cartoon. This cartoon is a good example of wartime humor - which by 1943, when the war was really beginning to bite back home in the U.S. had quite an edge. This was the very middle of World War II and all of Hollywood was waging war and doing its part to support the war effort.
Daffy the Commando is another World War II spoof that was meant to rally up people in the United States. These political shorts are always interesting to view today and this here is a good one. The film also has a cameo from Hitler who has a rather funny meeting with Daffy. 
If you like old cartoons, it helps to be familiar with old-time radio of the period, because the cartoons mined radio for gags constantly (and Mel Blanc was a star in both, as a regular on the number one-rated Jack Benny show). 
Daffy Duck, as being around for only six years, is in his old crazy self - very entertaining for any fan of old Daffy Duck episodes.
Daffy Duck trying to get past enemy lines in Nazi Germany. The Nazi leader is given the job of keeping commandos out of his territory.
There's a funny scene introducing him, as he's landing with his parachute and he is spotted by a huge searchlight. So Daffy screams, ''Hey, turn off the light" and obviously, the German commander does at his command.
Daffy is a commando and he is at his manic best as he launches a full scale assault on the enemy. The German commander Von Vulture tries to capture him but Daffy Duck fails him every time.
Daffy outsmarts a couple Nazi birds, but eventually gets caught by the head vulture, who shoots him out of a cannon. Daffy soars into the sky, showing off his American pride.
In the end Daffy Duck reaches the Hitler and he hits Adolf Hitler over the head with a mallet.
This is the essential World War II cartoon. This is a marvelous little bit of propaganda using Daffy to help lampoon the enemy, in this case the Nazis.
The phone booth gag is "Is that you, Mert?" a fossilized gag phrase from the period, taken from "Fibber McGee and Molly". It was a catch phrase that audiences of the period would react to as a conditioned response.
You are likely not to take it for a light comedy. Warner Brothers must have been pretty brave to make this short, especially while the World War was going on.
People who love Daffy Duck and like the prospect of him teasing with the Nazis in the war, will certainly like this cartoon.
A good deal of propaganda here in the midst of the U.S. involvement. This is the essential World War II cartoon.
This short is also quite disturbing, you are likely not to take it for a light comedy. 
Despite being slightly disturbing, this cartoon is also actually quite funny. The music has energy and is fitting with the style of music at the time, the dialogue as always is fresh and funny and the gags are great with the standout being the fight over a nickel in the phone booth.
This isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination but there are enough laughs to keep it entertaining.
Story-wise it is exciting and interesting from a historical perspective. For its time, it is quite bold especially with the ending, which could account for why it was apparently banned, but rather than be offended by the boldness.
It has been banned in most places for poking fun at Nazis and Hitler.
The animation is beautiful, especially in the detailed backgrounds and ravishing colors. 

Director : Friz Freleng.

Producer : Leon Schlesinger.

Music by Carl W.Stalling.

Production company ; Leon Schlesinger Productions.

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