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★ 7.1 · 1937 · 7m · Animation · Comedy
Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.
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