Mouse in Manhattan

Mouse in Manhattan is a 1945 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 19th Tom and Jerry short released in American theaters on 7 July 1945. Jerry has enough of the country life and decides to leave to the city. He writes a goodbye letter 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, ends up as a makeshift shoe-polisher, admires the tower... more

Mouse in Manhattan is a 1945 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 19th Tom and Jerry short released in American theaters on 7 July 1945. Jerry has enough of the country life and decides to leave to the city. He writes a goodbye letter 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, 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... less