LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

slymusic "Gold Diggers of '49" is just an average black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The time is July, 1849. Beans the cat and Porky Pig (not really the Porky we know today) go prospecting, and Beans hopes to marry Porky's daughter Kitty (!). Of course, there's a bad guy in the mix.My favorite scenes from "Gold Diggers of '49": I love how Porky gobbles up a gigantic sandwich and then shouts "YeeeeoWHOOPEE!" I also love hearing cartoon characters sing, even if it's only for a few seconds; a barbershop quartet harmonizes the final bars of "Sweet Adeline" before departing for the big gold strike. AND I like how Porky's long arm reaches in his own back pocket and keeps retrieving the same gold coin he found."Gold Diggers of '49" is okay, but Porky Pig fans will most likely be disappointed with it because Porky simply doesn't have the voice, the looks, or the personality that we are all familiar with. It would take a little while longer for the character to develop, and thank God that directors Tex Avery and Bob Clampett admired Porky so much that they had the desire to work with him.

Mightyzebra This is a Warner Brothers cartoon, made with Porky Pig, less than a year old.In this cartoon, in the 1800's, a cat called Beans has found gold. After kissing his love (the cat who is Porky's "daughter") goodbye, he head off and with Porky and townfolk, he mines for gold. He seems to be doing very well. Then, along comes a robber, who has his eye on one bag of gold - but he did not count on Beans coming along...This is a very interesting cartoon in a historical and plot-wise point of view. It is historical because of the way it is made, which is old and the humour, which is old. The plot is interesting, partly because it was unlike the plots of many of the Warner Brothers cartoons in the future. I like the cartoon because of this and I also like it because of Beans the cat (who for some reason reminds me of Mickey mouse), Porky (who looks a lot different) and Beans' sweetheart. Some parts of the cartoon are very cute.Well worth a watch - especially for people who like historical cartoons and exciting old cartoons! Enjoy "Gold Diggers of '49". :-)

TheOtherFool '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.

Chip_douglas 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