The Missing Mouse

The Missing Mouse
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Starring	William Hanna Paul Frees Harry E. Lang
Music by	Scott Bradley (theme song only) Edward H. Plumb
Animation by	Ray Patterson Ed Barge Kenneth Muse Irven Spence
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	December 20, 1952 (1952-12-20)
Running time	6:29
Country	United States
Language	English

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The Missing Mouse is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 73rd Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in theaters on December, 20 1952.

Plot

While running away from Tom around the house, Jerry gets accidentally all covered in white shoe polish. Tom hears an annoucement on the radio informing the population that a white mouse, after having swallowed an explosive product, has fled from a laboratory and that the animal is extremely sensitive to sound, which would trigger the explosion and cause enormous damage. Tom then sees that Jerry is all white and does his best to prevent him to be attained by noise or harm of any kind.

Production and release

• Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Animation by Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Kenneth Muse, and Irven Spence
• Layouts by Robert Gentle
• Music by Edward H. Plumb
• Produced by Fred Quimby
• The short was released on December, 15 1952.

Home media

The short was released on VHS/DVD in various collections, including Tom & Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology 1940-1958, The Art of Tom & Jerry: Volume I, Tom and Jerry - Hijinks and Shrieks (2003) , Tom and Jerry: The Classic Collection, Tom and Jerry: 85th Anniversary Kids Collection, Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection and Tom & Jerry's Greatest Chases: Volume Four in 2010.

Reception

”This is fast and furious, rating with the better T and J entries. EXCELLENT.”, wrote a contemprary review in The Exhibitor.

Rodney Figuereido of Animated Views wrote: ”This is a fun short with Jerry at his most devilish persona as he tortures Tom into thinking he is about to blow up.” Ben Simon, of the same website, found the short ”ma(de) the most out of its “threat on the loose” concept”.

Describing Tom’s sudden ageing sequence in the short, Paul Wells commented: ”The ‘body’ in animated cartoons can be free from ageing. Tom and Jerry, it seems, were perennially the same age in the Hanna Barbera period, unless ‘ageing’ itself could be used as a gag as, for example, in The Missing Mouse [...], when Tom ages with worry as he realises that the white mouse he is vigorously washing is not Jerry but an explosive mouse who has escaped from a laboratory and will ‘go off’ at the slightest touch!”

Thad Komorowski, of Cartoon Research, remarked that the short was ”(h)istorically significant as the only short from the original MGM cartoon studio not scored by Scott Bradley. Disney regular Ed Plumb fills in, giving this cartoon a chilling, spidery feel as it concludes with the destruction of the explosive white mouse and the whole city."

External links

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