Mouse in Manhattan

Mouse in Manhattan
Tom and Jerry series
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby (unc. on original issue)
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Music by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Ray Patterson Irven Spence
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	July 7, 1945
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8' 06"
Language	English
Preceded by	The Mouse Comes to Dinner
Followed by	Tee for Two

Mouse in Manhattan is a 1945 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 19th Tom and Jerry short released in American theaters on July 7 1945. It is one of the few episodes that only one of the duo plays a major role.

Plot

Jerry dances with an inanimate placecard mascot in Mouse in Manhattan. Animation by Kenneth Muse.

Jerry has enough of the country life and decides to leave to the city. He writes a goodbye letter saying he's off to see the city sights.

Detailing this for a sleeping Tom before leaving to New York City to experience life in the city. In a series of antics in New York City, he gets stuck in gum on the floor of Grand Central, ends up as a makeshift shoe-polisher, admires the towering skyscrapers, gets nauseated in an elevator, sees more sights before falling down the sewer, has a close shave with oncoming traffic, and dangles precariously over the city on an ever-breaking candle. He also dances with several placecards (in the form of attractive women). He ultimately loses his balance and gets stuck in a champagne bottle which pops him all the way to the ground, where he lands in a dark alley in a puddle, sneezes, and is heard and scared off by an alley full of vicious cats. He is then hurtled across the city on trash cans, one of which hits a fire hydrant, sending him flying through a jewellery shop window, after which he is shot at by the police. As Jerry escapes the city (nearly being run over by an uptown express train on one of the Interborough Rapid Transit lines in the process), he quickly races over the George Washington Bridge, empty freeway, and railroad back to the countryside, where he finds Tom still asleep (unaware that Jerry had been gone). He tears his unread note and kisses Tom and he wakes up before nailing a sign reading "Home Sweet Home" above his mousehole, entering afterwards.

Censorship

• On Cartoon Network, the part when Jerry's head is removed from a bottle of shoe polish to reveal his blackface while he is at Grand Central Terminal was cut. [1]

External links

• Mouse in Manhattan at the Big Cartoon DataBase