Of Feline Bondage

Of Feline Bondage
Tom and Jerry series
Title card
Directed by	Chuck Jones Maurice Noble
Produced by	Chuck Jones
Story by	Chuck Jones Don Towsley
Voices by	Mel Blanc June Foray
Music by	Eugene Poddany
Animation by	Ben Washam Ken Harris Don Towsley Dick Thompson
Backgrounds by	Robert Gribbroek
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1965
Color process	Metrocolor
Running time	6' 46"
Language	English
Preceded by	I'm Just Wild About Jerry
Followed by	The Year of the Mouse

Of Feline Bondage is a Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1965, directed and produced by Chuck Jones, with animation by Ben Washam, Don Towsley, Ken Harris, Tom Ray and Dick Thompson. In some ways, the cartoon is reminiscent of the 1948 short, The Invisible Mouse which was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The title of the cartoon alludes to the novel Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, and the better-known 1964 film of the same name.

Plot

Jerry is running though a pool hall and runs into a can that Tom holds out. Tom begins shaking the can and laughs then he tips Jerry out against the wall.

Jerry is then running along near one of the tables and runs up a pool cue placed by Tom and onto a cue ball on one of the tables. Tom breaks by shooting the cue ball into the rack and Jerry gets bopped on the head by the cue ball. Then, the 8-ball lands right next to the mouse and it follows Jerry off the table and into his hole, where it squishes Jerry flat. Jerry shrugs in misery until his fairy godmother visits him. Jerry acts out the situation with Tom and she gives Jerry a bottle of potion that keeps him invisible for a period of time. Jerry thanks her and pokes his head out of his hole, where he sees cheese attached to a fishing line held by Tom. Jerry drinks the potion and turns invisible. He steals the cheese and gets Tom to twist his face in wonder. Jerry swipes the fishing line and pulls Tom's nose and ears backwards, ties Tom's tail, and generally keeps the cat prisoner while the invisible mouse procures some scissors. Tom panics and runs up the steps at the speed of a race car, but still nearly loses his tail.

Tom hides behind a trunk, panting hard. He then pokes his head out and gets his whiskers cut off. Jerry then steps with the scissors and cuts off some of Tom's head hair. Tom flees down the steps at even greater speed and falls into a vase. Jerry then clips his tail and makes it assume the shape of a fir tree. He then cuts off all of Tom's chest fur. The vase breaks and reveals Tom's horrid appearance - Tom has shorts and vest. Jerry laughs, holding the scissors, but soon reappears. Tom holds out a mirror, and Jerry slows his laughing. Then Tom cuts Jerry's fur to leave him with only a brassiere and knickers.

Tom laughs at Jerry at his look and Jerry laughs at Tom at his look.

External links

• Of Feline Bondage at the Big Cartoon DataBase