The Missing Mouse is the 73rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1951, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was the first and only cartoon in the Hanna-Barbera era (1940-1958) that the music was not composed by Scott Bradley. Instead, Edward Plumb scored the music for this cartoon. It was animated by Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse and Irven Spence, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It...
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The Missing Mouse is the 73rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1951, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was the first and only cartoon in the Hanna-Barbera era (1940-1958) that the music was not composed by Scott Bradley. Instead, Edward Plumb scored the music for this cartoon. It was animated by Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse and Irven Spence, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle. It was released on January 10, 1953 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The cartoon opens with Jerry carrying cheese and milk from the refrigerator as Tom watches him from on top of it. As Jerry takes an orange, Tom slams the door, soaking Jerry. Jerry runs to the end of a counter, but Tom grabs two pies and splatters the mouse between them. The chase continues as Tom holds a mouse trap out for Jerry's tail, but the mouse pulls his tail away. However, he is looking in the wrong direction, and instead of into his hole, runs into the wall. Tom laughs and...
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