China Jones | |
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Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck and Porky Pig) series | |
Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Story by | Tedd Pierce |
Voices by | Mel Blanc |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Tom Ray George Grandpre' Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder |
Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
Backgrounds by | William Butler |
Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date(s) | February 14, 1959 |
Color process | Technicolor |
Language | English |
China Jones is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, directed by Robert McKimson and released in 1959.
Daffy Duck is China Jones, an Irish private investigator working in the Far East. He finds a fortune cookie containing a call for help which stated: "Help. I am being held prisoner in a Chinese Bakery". and decides to investigate . This is actually a trap... Several times throughout, his assistant. Charlie Chung (Porky), a caricature for Charlie Chan reminds China Jones that he owes him a great deal of money, due to a large laundry bill, so Daffy is punished and forced to work for Chung as he speaks in Chinese: "Chinese", "Help! - I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese Laundry!".