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While dancing, Jerry loses his balance and gets stuck in a champagne bottle which pops him out of the building and he falls all the way to the ground with the help of a sock on a clothesline which becomes his parachute. He lands in a dark alley in a puddle; sneezes and is heard and scared off by an alley full of hungry vicious cats. He then hurtles across the city on trash cans, one of which hits a fire hydrant and sends 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]] and railroad tracks back to the countryside (deciding citylife is not for him) where he finds Tom still asleep (apparently unaware that Jerry was gone). He tears his unread note and kisses Tom, waking him up in the process, before placard nailing a sign reading "Home Sweet Home" above his mousehole, and entering afterwards. |
While dancing, Jerry loses his balance and gets stuck in a champagne bottle which pops him out of the building and he falls all the way to the ground with the help of a sock on a clothesline which becomes his parachute. He lands in a dark alley in a puddle; sneezes and is heard and scared off by an alley full of hungry vicious cats. He then hurtles across the city on trash cans, one of which hits a fire hydrant and sends 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]] and railroad tracks back to the countryside (deciding citylife is not for him) where he finds Tom still asleep (apparently unaware that Jerry was gone). He tears his unread note and kisses Tom, waking him up in the process, before placard nailing a sign reading "Home Sweet Home" above his mousehole, and entering afterwards. |
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==Trivia== |
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. The popularity on Jerry Mouse was so great by this point that Hanna and Barbera felt he had earned his own cartoon. As Mouse In Manhattan focuses solely on Jerry and his misadventures, there are no cat-and-mouse chase scenes. Instead, most of its energy comes from a fusion of the music score (composed by [[Scott Bradley]]) with cityscape scenery. Bradley's score was composed of [[Louis Alter]]'s [[Manhattan Serenade]] (later used in [[The Godfather]]) and [[Arthur Freed]] and [[Nacio Herb Brown]]'s [[Broadway Rhythm]]. |
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. This is the only Tom and Jerry cartoon focuses solely on Jerry, and as such, the only Tom and Jerry cartoon without a chase scene. |
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. The story is loosely based on "[[The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse]]", especially the notion of the city as a place of both riches and fear. |
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. The scene in which Jerry dangles over the edge of a skyscraper hanging onto a broken candle stick is a reference to [[Harold Lloyd]] in [[Safety Last!]]. |
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. As an inside joke for the cartoon staff, "Tom and Jerry cartoon" appears on the marquees of multiple theaters seen in the background. |
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. A clip of Mouse in Manhattan appeared on an episode of the 1980s children's show [[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]. |
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| File:Mouseinmanhattantitle.jpg Mouse in Manhattan release poster. | |
| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby (unc. on original issue) |
| Animation by | Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Ray Patterson Irven Spence |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Running time | 8:06 |
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 and reissued in 1953. Unlike other cartoons featuring the duo, this one focuses solely on Jerry.
Plot
Jerry has enough of the country life and decides to leave to the city. He writes a goodbye letter to Tom saying he's off to see the city sights. 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, and even attempts to literally climb the Empire State Building, but to no avail, and gets scared when he sees a statue and runs into a woman's green heeled shoes. As Jerry passes through, he sees the woman's large toe and polished toenail at the bottom of her shoe and he uses it as a mirror to make him look nice. After he's done grooming: he walks away and accidentally falls into a stream beside the sidewalk and floats away on a bottle cap.
He admires beautiful girls wearing pretty shoes and also Times Square before falling down the sewer, has a close shave with oncoming traffic, gets nauseated in an elevator, moves under the carpet to the Starlite Room and moves again where he bumps into a doorway, crawls into a room and comes out all blushed. He looks up at the sign which says Powder Room and runs to the Check Room near the Powder Room he passed. As he tries to fix the top hat he was on, it pops up fast squishing him down and down again before he bounced out of the room. After he fixes his hat, he sees a woman pass by and he jumps on the back of the train dress behind her legs and takes a ride. He almost falls down a drain and gets knocked off by a plant pot handle in the way, gets back up and follows the direction where she went but instead heads toward the table and dangles precariously over the city on an ever-breaking candle. Later, he dances with several placecards (in the form of attractive women).
While dancing, Jerry loses his balance and gets stuck in a champagne bottle which pops him out of the building and he falls all the way to the ground with the help of a sock on a clothesline which becomes his parachute. He lands in a dark alley in a puddle; sneezes and is heard and scared off by an alley full of hungry vicious cats. He then hurtles across the city on trash cans, one of which hits a fire hydrant and sends 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 and railroad tracks back to the countryside (deciding citylife is not for him) where he finds Tom still asleep (apparently unaware that Jerry was gone). He tears his unread note and kisses Tom, waking him up in the process, before placard nailing a sign reading "Home Sweet Home" above his mousehole, and entering afterwards.
Censorship
. Versions shown on Cartoon Network and its spin-off channel, Boomerang, execise the part when Jerry's head is removed from a bottle of show wax to reveal his blackface.
Production
- Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Animation: Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Ed Barge
- Music Direction: Scott Bradley
- Produced by: Fred Quimby
Voice cast
- Billy Bletcher as Jerry (uncredited)
- Clarence Nash as the vicious cats
Availability
DVD
- Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 1
- Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 2, Disc One
- Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection, Disc One
- Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, Disc One
Blu-ray
- Tom and Jerry Golden Collection Volume One, Disc One
External links
- Articles lacking sources from May 2008
- Tom and Jerry short films
- 1945 animated films
- Films set in New York City
- Films directed by Joseph Barbera
- Films directed by William Hanna
- Works based on fables
- 1940s American animated films
- 1940s comedy films
- 1940s musical films
- American musical comedy films
- American films