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''Daffy – The Commando'' is a 1943 Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Daffy Duck in the Looney Tunes series.〔 As with many of the World War II-themed cartoons put out by the major studios, ''Daffy - The Commando'' was withheld from broadcast or video distribution after the war. == Synopsis == A German commander – Von Vultur – is fuming and spluttering furiously about how many American commandos have managed to slip into Germany undetected, while a snipet from Wagner's Das Rheingold plays on the soundtrack. He gets a telegram from the "Gestinko Gestapo", threatening him with his ‘ka-rear’ if he lets ‘vun’ more ‘kommando’ through (if you look closely, the apes are caricatures of Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, the last of whom is crossed out). The settings recalls WWI trenches more than any actual scene of WWII. Hearing an American warplane overhead, he calls in his servant – Schultz – whom he abuses by knocking him regularly over his helmet with a mallet. They run outside and use a searchlight to look for Daffy, who’s floating down on a parachute, whilst singing Billy Bennet's "She was Poor But She Was Honest" in a Cockney accent. After a quick shout of "Put out those lights!" gets the searchlight turned off temporarily and allows him to land unseen, Daffy uses his fingers on the searchlight’s lens to make shadows of animated puppets and dancing chorus girls on the clouds to distract the Germans. When Von chases Daffy behind a curtain that says "asbestos", Daffy makes a face similar to the stereotypical Japanese faces used in cartoons at the time (see, for example, ''Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips''), causing von Vultur to run off frightened. Back at his bunker, Von is presented with a ticking time bomb from Daffy "as a little token of our esteem". He hands the bomb off to Schultz, who is literally blown through the roof. When Schultz falls back, Daffy stops von Vultur from hitting Schultz over the head with a mallet, and instead hits him. von Vultur (pausing briefly to salute a skunk with "Heil Hitler!") chases Daffy to a telephone booth, where he continues to make fun of him, such as nicknaming him "von Limburger" (after the infamously foul-smelling cheese). Daffy then jumps in a plane, narrowly avoiding being shot by "a ''whole'' mess of Messerschmitts". When Daffy is shot down by Von Vultur, his plane is literally blown to pieces (its entire body progressively disintegrating and disappearing from back to front, eventually leaving just the engine and propeller), with Daffy still clinging to the controls. Daffy then runs into what he believes is a tunnel where he can hide, but it turns out to be the barrel of a huge howitzer cannon, and he’s then shot out by Von. However, Daffy flies unharmed (as a ‘human cannonball’) into Berlin, where (a largely rotoscoped) Adolf Hitler is making a public speech (although he‘s actually speaking in mock German and saying humorous phrases such as "''Mein Heineken''"). Daffy jumps up and whacks Hitler on the head with a mallet, causing the Führer to scream "SCHULTZ!!!" in pain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daffy – The Commando」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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