
The Year Of The Mouse
Also known as: Tom Thumb (Working Title)
- Studio
- Sib-Tower 12 Productions
- Distributor
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Synopsis
The classic movie "Gaslight" retold, as Jerry and a nameless gray mouse (his cousin) team up to make Tom think that he's going crazy. Jerry has his cousin lower him down the chimney on a fishing cord. He smacks a sleeping Tom with a fly swatter and jerks on the cord. His cousin pulls him quickly up the chimney. Next, he tries a gun, but when he gets back on the roof, he begins to worry. Tom finds himself holding a smoking revolver, pointed at himself, wielding a knife with fake blood on his chest, and suspended from the ceiling by a rope around his neck. At cartoon's end, however, Tom discovers the dastardly plot, and he traps both mice in a bottle from which there is no escape.
Characters
Tom, Jerry, Gray Mouse
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones
- Co-directed By
- Maurice Noble
Producing
- Producer
- Chuck Jones
- Production Supervisor
- Les Goldman
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese, Chuck Jones
Voices
- Voice
- June Foray (Vocal Effects), Mel Blanc (Vocal Effects)
Music
- Music
- Eugene Poddany
Animation
- Animator
- Dick Thompson, Ben Washam, Ken Harris, Don Towsley
- Layouts
- Maurice Noble
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Philip De Guard
Production notes
This cartoon is similar to the 1949 Warner Bros. cartoon short "Mouse Wreckers."
One of the episodes where Tom gets the upper hand of Jerry at the end.
Working title: "Tom Thumb."
One of the episodes where Tom gets the upper hand of Jerry at the end.
Working title: "Tom Thumb."
