The Truce Hurts
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File:Trucehurtstitle.jpg The reissue title card of The Truce Hurts | |
Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Produced by | Fred Quimby |
Animation by | Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Ray Patterson Irven Spence |
Layouts by | Richard Bickenbach |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Running time | 7:59 |
The Truce Hurts is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 35th Tom and Jerry short released, created in 1947. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on July 17, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reissued on December 16, 1955 for re-release. The title is a pun on the phrase "the truth hurts". In this cartoon, Tom, Jerry, and Spike (or Butch) are fed up fighting each other and decide to have a truce and become friends instead. However, the truce falls apart when they fight over a juicy steak.
Plot
The cartoon starts when all the furniture was thrown out and Jerry is chased off the house by Tom and Spike. The mouse gets an iron pipe, the cat gets a frying pan and the dog gets a baseball bat. They start to fight about, but Spike all of a sudden stops it. He questions, "What's all this fighting getting in us, huh? Cats can get along dogs, can't they? And mice can get along with cats, can't they?" The three characters become pals, and they sign a peace treaty in the house.
Then, Tom, Jerry and Spike go to sleep after this, sharing a blanket, and a flower then falls from a tree near the house and that get sucked into Tom's mouth, waking up the cat. He then puts the blanket on Jerry. Jerry then rolls up Spike's tongue and closes his mouth to stop him snoring. Spike manages to stop the alarm clock and sneaks off to the kitchen. Spike prepares breakfast for himself and his pals while he sees Tom helping Jerry brush his teeth. While Tom helps Jerry brush his teeth, Spike prepares the milk. They seat each other, lick the lid of the bottle of milk, drink the milk and then share a toothpick for their teeth. Tom puts Jerry on a stack of books on a chair, as Spike pours milk into the bottles for them and himself to drink. Before they drink milk in a bottle each, the dog picks a ruler to measure the amount of milk in each cup.
When the episode fades to another scene, while Jerry is taking a stroll outside, Butch who happens to be scavenging for food in trash cans, spots him and decides that he will make a delightful appetizer. Tom, who is nearby and gasping in horror at what he saw, immediately rushes to Jerry's rescue and subdues the black alley cat by slamming a trash can lid into his face. The black alley cat stares at him angrily, as if he thinks Tom is fighting for Jerry with him. But then Tom brushes Jerry to save him and kisses the little mouse on the cheek before sending him off, which leaves Butch deadly shocked to see Tom and Jerry are no longer enemies, he screams terrifying, and repetitively knocks himself silly with a brick, as if he can't stand the situation.
Tom is soon walking along the sidewalk where a dog is gnawing on a bone. He decides to make a meal out of Tom when he sees him, but Spike witness this and, after letting out a scream-like gasp, makes the save just in time by punching the dog and knocking out a mouth full of teeth. Spike then said to Tom worriedly, "Are you okay, Tom? Speak to me, pal! Speak to me!" Tom shows Spike that the apple is still blocking his mouth, so Spike pushes it down and accidentally knocks Tom out while trying to help him swallow it.
Later, the trio are walking until they come across a mud puddle. Spike uses his coat as a way of crossing before a delivery truck splashes them with mud, leaving them in blackface. The delivery truck drops a package leaving Tom, Jerry and Spike to see what's in it. they see that it is a steak and take it home to grill it. Before they decide to eat it, they draw a line on each with a chalk to determine which size would they have. But each of them is greedy and offers themselves the biggest. After Spike gives Jerry a small piece, he give Tom the bone which angers the cat into stabbing Spike in the hand with a fork. The trio then fight over the steak before it flies out of the house, smashes the window and lands in a stream. The trio try to catch the steak but it falls into the sewers. Anguished by what happened, Tom, Jerry and Spike realize they can no longer be good pals again. Spike angrily rips up the treaty and then runs to the outside of the house, again picking the baseball bat up, while Tom picks up the pan and Jerry takes the pipe up again to continue their original fight of beating each other up.
Production
- Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Animation: Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence
- Story by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Layout: Richard Bickenbach
- Music: Scott Bradley
- Produced by: Fred Quimby
Voice cast
- Billy Bletcher as Spike the Bulldog (uncredited)
- William Hanna as Tom and Butch's screams (uncredited)
Availability
It can be found uncut on disc one of Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol.1 , disc two of Tom and Jerry Golden Collection and The Art of Tom and Jerry.
External links
- 1948 animated films
- Tom and Jerry short films
- Films directed by Joseph Barbera
- Films directed by William Hanna
- 1940s American animated films
- American films
- American short films
- 1940s comedy films
- Films scored by Scott Bradley
- 1948 Tom and Jerry short films
- American animated short films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films
- Films about animals
- Animated films about animals
- Films about cats
- Animated films about cats
- Films featuring anthropomorphic mice
- English-language films
- Films about dogs
- Animated films about dogs
- Animated films about friendship