This is a purely silly cartoon that works quite well because it takes itself seriously. In that noir period of movies, it starts off talking about a large Eastern city that is suffering a campaign of terror: some fiend is painting mustaches on all the posters and people. It is Daffy, who has gotten into his head to put a mustache "on every lip". The police set up Porky (playing a cop) to be a decoy: he is supposed to be a discarded painting in a garbage can. Of course, when Daffy sees the "pictures" hands holding up the frame, and then quietly walks around the can and sees that the figure in the picture has a back, he realizes it's a trap - but paints a mustache on Porky anyway!
The film was remarkably inventive in showing all the ways Daffy spread his black paint handlebar mustaches. These include stencils, and even (a favorite pair of moments) just drawing it on lip level in the middle of the air, waiting for Porky to run into it. At one point Porky even gets a metallic mustache.
In the end, Daffy goes on trial, and gets acquitted by a jury of Jerry Colonnas. He does revert to type with a twist a moment later.
This was a Warner Cartoon product, so notice the faces of Warner stars, defaced by Daffy's activities, including Bogart and Peter Lorre.
The film was remarkably inventive in showing all the ways Daffy spread his black paint handlebar mustaches. These include stencils, and even (a favorite pair of moments) just drawing it on lip level in the middle of the air, waiting for Porky to run into it. At one point Porky even gets a metallic mustache.
In the end, Daffy goes on trial, and gets acquitted by a jury of Jerry Colonnas. He does revert to type with a twist a moment later.
This was a Warner Cartoon product, so notice the faces of Warner stars, defaced by Daffy's activities, including Bogart and Peter Lorre.