The Two Mouseketeers (1951)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Directors:

Joseph Barbera
William Hanna

Release Date:

1951 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Family | Comedy

Plot:

This Tom and Jerry cartoon is set in 18th century France. Tom, who is a soldier in a castle, is assigned to guard the food laid out on a banquet table...

Plot Keywords:

Food | France | Castle | Tom And Jerry | Sword Fight

Awards:

Won Oscar.

Directed by
Joseph Barbera
William Hanna

Produced by
Fred Quimby	....	producer

Original Music by
Scott Bradley

Animation Department
Ed Barge	....	animator
Kenneth Muse	....	animator
Irven Spence	....	animator

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #15281) | South Korea:All | UK:U

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

This is the first of the several Tom and Jerry cartoons in which Tom plays the cardinal's guard while Jerry and Nibbles play the king's musketeers.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004)

Soundtrack:

Soldiers of Fortune

One of a series that have Jerry and Nibbles as swordsmice in France.

This cartoon, winner of an Oscar, is one of several that have Tom and Jerry channeling Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone (Nibbles seems to be channelling Eugene Pallette) and its all great fun. A marvelous cartoon, not my favorite of them, but excellent nonetheless. That its not in-print (with the others is sad. Cartoon Network does run it frequently though, so watch it, by all means. Most recommended.