Mouse Trouble is a 1944 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 17th Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley (the music is actually based on the popular jazz song "All God's Children Got Rhythm"). The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Pete Burness. The cartoon won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, the second aw...
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Mouse Trouble is a 1944 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 17th Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley (the music is actually based on the popular jazz song "All God's Children Got Rhythm"). The cartoon was animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Pete Burness. The cartoon won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, the second award bestowed upon the series. It was released in theatres on November 23, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.
Tom acquires HOW TO CATCH A MOUSE / A Random Mouse Book.
Tom opens the book and, for the rest of the cartoon, takes its advice to attempt to catch the mouse.
At this point, Tom stops reading from chapter-to-chapter and skims the book, trying suggestions that he likes or thinks will work.
Tom forces a shotgun into Jerry's mousehole. However, the barrel of the gun bends outwards, through the wall, pointing straight at Tom's head as the cat...
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