It's a Joke, Son! (1947)

The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his "Allen's Alley" resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program. Claghorn was a blustery, one-man-Chamber-of-Commerce for all things Southern, who had no tolerence for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line, although he made allowances for South Philly. The character inspired the creation of one of the most popular of the Warners' cartoon characters, Foghorn Leghorn, who re-worked most of the originals material and style. The title of this movie is a stock line- "it's a joke, son"---he would feed a befuddled Fred Allen each week. In the film, Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine.

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Film & Animation

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• feature
• length
• film
• movie
• cinema
• small town
• Based On Radio Show
• feature length
• Kenny Delmar
• Una Merkel
• June Lockhart
• Comedy
• Funny
• Robert E. Kent
• Benjamin Stoloff
• Paul Girard Smith