The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

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The Cat Above and the Mouse Below
Tom and Jerry series

The title card of The Cat Above and the Mouse Below
Directed by Chuck Jones
Animation by Tom Ray
Dick Thompson
Ben Washam
Ken Harris
Don Towsley
Voices by Terence Monck (baritone)
Music by Eugene Poddany
Produced by Chuck Jones
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date 1964
Format Metrocolor, 6 min 27 secs
Language English
Preceded by Penthouse Mouse
Followed by Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?
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Tom, the baritone sings from the Barber of Seville.
Tom, the baritone sings from the Barber of Seville.

The Cat Above and The Mouse Below is second of thirty-four Tom and Jerry shorts directed by Chuck Jones, released in 1964. In the cartoon, Tom is a opera singer in Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza Baritone. They brings Tom there in a limousine. When Tom enters to from the artist's entrance, he throws a rose with his coat hem. The people throws them shoes, glasses, hat and some more things. After than Tom enters the artist's entrace to stage. The people claps hands and Tom lift his hand up ("Stop!"). He moves up one of his sinistral finger ("Start the music!"), turns around and sets the air freshener to his mouth. Then he starts singing some songs in Italian. But Jerry lives under the stage and he can't sleep because Tom sings very loudly, so he takes the broom and knocks with its haft onto ceiling. Tom's eyes was closed, but because he moves some millimetres above, he open his eyes and stomps with his left leg onto floor. In Jerry's home all things moves up-down. On stage there was an open floorboard. Jerry takes the hammer, moves hammer up-down twice and hit the floorboard. Tom flies up with his suit. He hit his head with a bell and drops to his suit headfirst. After some seconds he woke and ran to the dressing room. Then he came back and stomps at every step. But when he was in the middle of the stage, he jumps up and when he fell down, Jerry's bed brokes.