The Two Mouseketeers

The Two Mouseketeers

March 15, 1952 Theatrical Series Tom and Jerry

Studio
MGM
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Synopsis

Comedy capers with Jerry and his sidekick Nibbles, out to cause trouble for Tom as he guards the king's banquet.

Characters

Tom, Jerry, Nibbles

Credits

Directing

Director
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Producing

Producer
Fred Quimby

Animation

Animator
Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence

Voices

Voice
Francoise Brun-Cottan (Jerry, Nibbles)

Music

Music
Scott Bradley

Production notes

This is the first of several cartoons in which Tom plays a cardinal's guard while Jerry and Nibbles play two of the king's musketeers.

Nibbles speaks several lines in French! (He also speaks in English, saying "Poor, poor pussycat" when Tom loses his head to a cannon loaded with food.)

Song: "Soldier of Fortune" (Sigmund Romberg-Gus Kahn)

One of five Tom and Jerry cartoons in which Tom dies at the end (the others are "The Yankee Doodle Mouse," "Safety Second," "The Duck Doctor" and "Mouse Trouble").

Awards

Academy Award Winner, Best Short Subject (Cartoon), 1952

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