Saturday, November 23, 2013

Irv Spence's Cartoon Diary: November 23, 1944











Thanksgiving Day, 1944, was also the release date of the Academy Award winning "Mouse Trouble." This one pretty much has it all.











There's violence in literature...







... an off-screen pummeling, a mallet whacking, broken teeth ...








...injury to the eye ...









... a gunshot wound that, oddly for a cartoon, hasn't healed by the next scene...







...forcing Tom to wear a ridiculous toupee throughout the rest of the picture (except for one brief moment.)







There's also an ill-fated romance ...





... a magic trick gone horribly wrong...




... and a huge stockpile of explosives, resulting in complete destruction and, finally, death.







What more could you ask of seven minutes of film?

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