A Broken Leghorn
Genres
Overview
On Old MacDonald's farm, an egg hatches in slow-witted hen Miss Prissy's nest, and out of the shell comes a baby rooster. Fearing he will be replaced by the new arrival and sent to be slaughtered, Foghorn Leghorn plots to do away with the tyke.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
6 min
Release Date
1959-09-26
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
19
Vote Average
6.5
Mel Blanc
Foghorn Leghorn / Junior Rooster (voice)
June Foray
Miss Prissy / Hens (voice) (uncredited)
6.5
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6.2
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1936-08-22 | en
4.9
Training Pigeons
Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase.
1936-09-18 | en
6.6
An Egg Scramble
On Porky Pig's farm, Miss Prissy, a slow-witted hen, has never laid an egg. So, one of her fellow hens paints Prissy's name on an egg and places it in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes she laid the egg and proudly refuses to let Porky have it to give to a market's truck. Porky takes the egg from her and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy follows the truck to a nearby city, determined to regain her egg.
1950-05-27 | en
6.0
Two Little Pups
A hen tries to get something to eat from a garden, but is chased around the yard by the titular pups.
1936-04-04 | en
7.7
Stork Naked
A drunken stork comes to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daffy Duck with a bundle of joy, but Daffy wants no part of the delivery and takes extreme measures to keep the stork away.
1955-02-26 | en
5.7
Plenty of Money and You
A hen's chicks hatch, but one of them is actually an ostrich. She treats it as her own, but the ostrich keeps getting into trouble.
1937-07-31 | en
4.0
The Egg Cracker Suite
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1943-03-22 | en
5.9
Mother Was a Rooster
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1962-10-20 | en
6.0
Easy Peckin's
A no-nonsense, hulky rooster guards a chicken coop that a sneaky fox repeatedly tries to raid.
1953-10-17 | en
6.8
Plop Goes the Weasel!
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1953-08-21 | en
9.0
One Mother's Family
A mother hen is taking her brood for a walk. They encounter obstacles along the way, such as traffic. There's one clumsy chick who repeatedly has more trouble than the rest.
1939-09-30 | en
5.2
Porky's Spring Planting
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8.0
The Little Bantamweight
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1938-02-05 | en
6.2
The Sneezing Weasel
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5.4
A Star Is Hatched
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5.8
The Egg Collector
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6.0
Strife with Father
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6.3
The Three Caballeros
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6.5
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