Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
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| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna (unc.) Joseph Barbera (unc.) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Ed Barge Michael Lah Kenneth Muse Al Grandmain Ray Patterson (unc.) Pete Burness (unc.) |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | June 14, 1947 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min 24 secs |
| Preceded by | The Cat Concerto |
| Followed by | Salt Water Tabby |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse is a 1947 cartoon featuring Tom and Jerry, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons in 1947, but lost to the Merrie Melodies short Tweetie Pie. The cartoon was released on 14 June 1947, and was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby and animated by Ed Barge, Michael Lah, Kenneth Muse and Al Grandmain. Ray Patterson and Pete Burness also provide animation, but are uncredited.
[edit] Plot
We see a shot of the house of Tom and Jerry with a basement window. Near the basement window are two empty milk bottles. A milkman takes them and replaces them with two full ones; the one on the left is smaller. Through the basement window, Tom slowly reaches for the small bottle and then snatches it, rushing into the living room to pour it in his bowl and drink it. He puts the now-empty milk bottle into the pot of a plant.
Just as he begins to drink from his bowl, he notices Jerry drinking his milk. Jerry runs, and Tom traps him by putting a wardrobe in front of his mouse hole, but Jerry makes his way out. When Tom drinks his milk again, we see Jerry on his head drinking it with a straw. Tom attempts to hit Jerry, but ends up hitting himself in the process.
Jerry runs to the closet and jumps into a small suitcase, but Tom closes it, and puts it into a bigger one, which he puts an even bigger one, and a bigger one, and a bigger one, and a bigger one, before putting it in a huge box. He then locks the closet and swallows the key, but then he sees Jerry in the box with a hole in it, drinking the milk with a straw again. Using his foot, Tom pushes the box into the basement, and locks his milk bowl in a safe behind the curtain. He then closes it and then hears sipping sounds. He opens it to check and sees Jerry drinking the milk through a straw once again, this time in his mouse hole. Just then, Tom snatches the milk from in the safe and thinks of an ingenious plan.
The next scene shows Tom craftily mixing several chemicals into his milk, such as mothballs, ammonia and a variety of poisonous substances. He mixes the deadly elixir together with a spoon, but the toxic chemicals cause the spoon to melt. A fly lands on the edge of the bowl and takes a little sip, before crying in pain and dropping dead.
Confident that his potion works, Tom carefully carries the bowl and places it outside Jerry's hole, gleefully watching as Jerry drinks from the bowl. Jerry yells in pain and collapses. Just as Tom is checking that Jerry is dead or not, the full effects of the potion take place. Jerry's arms and legs lift up, and he flips, then moves like a toy mouse and, moves to the top right corner, then to the top left, then to the bottom right, then around the screen, before finally spinning around to turn into a brown ball, which then rolls and lands on the ground to become an oversized, muscular, super-strong version of Jerry, who is now more than able to defend himself against the cat, scaring Tom into running away. Tom tries to squash Jerry with a large phone book, but the super-rodent effortlessly tears the book to shreds. Tom opens up the safe from earlier and jumps inside, closing the door behind him. Jerry's powerful strength allows him to punch through the metal safe and pull Tom out of the resulting hole. As he grabs Tom and smacks him against the safe, the potion's effects wear off and Jerry returns to his normal size.
He drinks some more of the potion, but Tom grabs him. Jerry gulps, and then screams again, moving around and transforming into a brown ball again, morphing into the same muscular version of himself and getting further revenge on Tom by grabbing him and slamming him by his whiskers, Jerry reverts to his normal self once again, and ties Tom's whiskers into a bow-tie. Jerry hurries towards the bowl of milk, but is stopped by Tom. The cat-and-mouse chase resumes, until Jerry traps Tom in the refrigerator.
Jerry hurriedly attempts to make more of the concoction himself, with a different formula consisting, but not limited to, white shoe polish, an unknown blue liquid, moth balls and a red chemical. However, Tom claws his way out of the refrigerator and before Jerry has a chance to drink it, Tom gulps down the mixture and ends up growing to an enormous size and then shrinking to seven eighths the size of Jerry. Jerry grabs his tail from Tom's foot, grabs Tom's tail, and punches his face. Tom gets smaller again, and Jerry pulls his tail, and lets go of it, hurting Tom's bottom, and Tom shrinks down to the size of a germ. The tables are turned, and by the cartoon's end, Jerry is chasing Tom with a fly swatter.
[edit] Goofs
- Shortly after Jerry becomes muscluar, Tom uses a book to hit Jerry. When the book is still on the shelf, it's yellow, but when Tom grabs it, it turns green.
