Mouse Wreckers
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Hobo mice Hubie and Bertie are about to enter a nice new home. The only problem is that the house already is inhabited by Claude Cat, a champion mouser. They use various techniques to drive Claude crazy. They lower Bertie by fishing line down the chimney; he swats the cat and is then pulled back up fast. They pump Claude full of air, sending him zooming around the room (causing the feline to swear off catnip). They lower a vicious bulldog to pummel him (the cat checks his own tongue and takes a teaspoon of medicine). And then...
Characters
Hubie, Bertie, Claude Cat, Dog
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Animation
- Animator
- Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Hubie, Claude Cat, Dog), Stan Freberg (Bertie)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Crew
- Layouts
- Robert Gribbroek
- Backgrounds
- Peter Alvarado
Production notes
The first appearance of Claude Cat.
In "The Aristo-Cat" (1943) and "Roughly Squeaking" (1946), Bertie is grey and Hubie is brown.
In "House Hunting Mice" (1947), "Mouse Wreckers" (1949), "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950) and "Cheese Chasers" (1951), Bertie changes to brown and Hubie is now grey.
In "Trap Happy Porky" (1945), they have silent roles.
The cartoon was loosely remade by Robert McKimson in 1958 as Gopher Broke, and in 1965 as the Tom and Jerry cartoon The Year of the Mouse (also written by Maltese and directed by Jones).
The Blue Ribbon release featured orange rings. This release also features the original title cards and includes credits.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
In "The Aristo-Cat" (1943) and "Roughly Squeaking" (1946), Bertie is grey and Hubie is brown.
In "House Hunting Mice" (1947), "Mouse Wreckers" (1949), "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950) and "Cheese Chasers" (1951), Bertie changes to brown and Hubie is now grey.
In "Trap Happy Porky" (1945), they have silent roles.
The cartoon was loosely remade by Robert McKimson in 1958 as Gopher Broke, and in 1965 as the Tom and Jerry cartoon The Year of the Mouse (also written by Maltese and directed by Jones).
The Blue Ribbon release featured orange rings. This release also features the original title cards and includes credits.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their Blue Ribbon program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Subject (Cartoon), 1949
Pictures
Reviews
Mouse Wreckers
Great classic cartoon.
Mouse Wreckers
Mouse Wreckers is too funny! Hubie and Bertie are highly underrated. They are by far the funniest cartoon characters! Yeah, yeah, sure sure...
Mouse Wreckers
It certainly gets MY vote for the Oscar. (This cartoon lost that honour to "The Little Orphan" starring Tom & Jerry)
Mouse Wreckers
this is the funniest cartoon i've ever seen period. the two mice drive the cat of the house crazy in the funniest schemes ever devised. simply outstanding. wish the two mice (hubie and bertie) were in more features.