Cat-Tails for Two
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| Cat-Tails for Two
Merrie Melodies/Speedy Gonzales series |
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 Cat-Tails for Two saw the debut of Speedy Gonzales. |
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| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc Stan Freberg |
| Animation by | Herman Cohen Phil DeLara Charles McKimson Rod Scribner |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 29, 1953 (USA premiere) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
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Cat-Tails for Two is a 1953 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce. It was animated in 1952. Voices by Mel Blanc and music by Carl Stalling. It was the first appearance of Speedy Gonzales. Because the old Speedy Gonzales looked rather coarse, they redesigned him and made him more handsome.
[edit] Plot
The two cats pursuing Speedy in Cat-Tails for Two are the slow-witted (and injury-causing) Benny and the fully functioning but unfortunate George, both patterned after the characters Lennie and George in the novel Of Mice and Men. George and Benny are walking down a pier looking for food, when they find a Mexican ship. Figuring the ship will have plenty of Mexican mice, i.e. "Mexican food" (Benny: "It gives me the heartburn and I love it!"), they climb on, only to find an unkempt mouse calling himself "Speedy Gonzales: Fastest Mouse in All Mexico". George and Benny go through numerous attempts to try and capture Speedy, who always outwits them. Speedy comes to think of them as private entertainment, at one point declaring "I like those fellows. All the time having fon (fun)!"
Finally, the two cats run a pipe into Speedy's hiding place (to the tune of Raymond Scott's Powerhouse), but Speedy grabs a wrench and bends it around back to them, unbeknownst to them. George starts shoving a lot of dynamite into the pipe, resulting in a mountain of TNT behind him and Benny. When he's done shoving dynamite through the pipe, he pushes a plunger down, and the mountain of dynamite blasts him and Benny up into the air. As they descend, Benny asks George about their Mexican dinner, with George responding "I kind of lost my appetite for Mexican food," before both cats plunge into the harbor. A smug Speedy looks at the camera and declares "I love those fellows. They're so see-lee (silly)!" Iris out.
