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Released August 1st, 1980, 'I Go Pogo' stars Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min, and received a user score of 10 (out of 100 ...
I Go Pogo takes a laid back skewering of election year politics in a charming of not all that polished film Set during election time in the Okefenokee Swamp, Pogo Possum (Skip Hinnant) is content to fish with Porky Pine (Jonathan Winters), but is routinely hounded by Albert the Alligator (Stan Fredberg), Howland Owl (Bob McFadden), and Churchy LaFemme (Arnold Stang) to run for President ...
Pogo, Gumbified. I was exposed to Pogo rather early in life. My dad had a small collection of underground comics that I liked to browse through when no one was looking, and for some reason there was one or two Pogo collections in the mix. One of the collections had the Pogo for President storyline that the movie I Go Pogo runs with.
- Marc Paul Chinoy
- Possum Productions Inc., Stowmar Enterprises
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(also known as Pogo for President) is a 1980 American stop motion comedy film written and directed by Marc Paul Chinoy based on the comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly.
Pogo the Possum attempts to run for president with the help of his fellow animal friends.
•Skip Hinnant as Pogo Possum
•Jonathan Winters as Porky Pine / Molester Mole / Wiley Catt
•Bob McFadden as Howland Owl
•Vincent Price as Deacon Mushrat
•Jimmy Breslin as P.T. Bridgeport
•Stan Freberg as Albert the Alligator
The film was announced in January 1980. Kerry H. Stowell, president of Stowmar Enterprises, a film studio in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia that produced the feature-length picture on a budget of $2 million. The film was the first feature-length animation shot with a new technique called "flexiform," which involves the manipulation of three-dim...
The film had been intended to be released three months before the 1980 United States presidential election with a $1 million marketing budget as well as a write-in campaign for "Pogo for President", but 21st Century Film Corporation never delivered on their promise and instead released the film on videocassette via Fotomat's video rental service.
1."We Have Met the Movie and It Is Pogo!", The Washington Post, January 13, 1980.
2."Bringing Walt Kelly's Pogo To the Screen", The New York Times, November 25, 1979.
3."Possum Politics", The Washington Post, October 27, 1980.
4."Doesn't Everybody Go Pogo?", The Washington Post, September 5, 1980.
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86 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Pogo is the cartoon character who said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”. Sure, it was created for kids, but it had political satire that appealed to adults. Cartoonist Walt Kelly created it and the strip was syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975, then there was a revival from 1989 to 1993 ...
Marc Paul Chinoy. Director, Writer. Walt Kelly. Characters. Pogo Possum is finagled into running for President of the United States in this stop motion animated film.
