Green Years, The - DVD

Daffy Duck (voiced by Eric Bauza) and Porky Pig (ditto) had enough problems keeping up the farmhouse where they were raised as foundlings, when it was smacked with pink goo that fell from the stars. After scientists glom onto the stuff as a delicious bubble gum additive, it turns it's consumers into mindless pawns of alien invaders-leaving the boys, and savvy researcher Petunia Pig (Candi Milo), as the world's last hope, in this riotous old-school feature. Also with the voices of Peter MacNicol, Laraine Newman. 91 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Director William A. "Wild Bill" Wellman tackled all manner of subjects during his legendary career: war (Battleground, Wings), Hollywood (1937's A Star Is Born), exotic adventure (Beau Geste), crime (The Public Enemy) and, with The Happy Years, joyous, jim-dandy, turn-of-the-century Americana. Based on Owen Johnson's The Lawrenceville School Stories, the film stars Dean Stockwell as Dink Stover, whose concerned papa sends him to the pos

The initial impression from an encounter with a remarkable man in the hazards of a journey, is an intense feeling like a first cup of green tea. It may be distilled over and over and still keep the scent of the first taste.