Kitty Foiled
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| Kitty Foiled
Tom and Jerry series |
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 Kitty Foiled title card. |
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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 | Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Irving Levene Ed Barge |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | June 1, 1948 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min 20 secs |
| Preceded by | The Invisible Mouse |
| Followed by | The Truce Hurts |
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Kitty Foiled is a 1948 American animated short featuring Tom and Jerry. It was released in theaters across America on June 1, 1948. The cartoon was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with animation by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Irving Levine and Ed Barge. The music was scored by Scott Bradley, and the cartoon produced by Fred Quimby. The cartoon's title is a parody of the 1940 movie Kitty Foyle, starring Ginger Rogers.
[edit] Synopsis
The film starts with a canary, in its cage, watching the chase. Sounds of breaking glass and other fighting are heard throughout.
Tom can now be seen, attempting to smash Jerry with a broom, but instead repeatedly breaking lamps and glasses. Jerry hides in the one unbroken glass and runs away, but Tom picks up the glass and waits for Jerry to realize he is captured. When he does, his heart starts beating and extending out of his chest. Before Tom can club the mouse over the head with the broken end of the broom handle, the canary escapes from his cage by unlatching the base of the cage, which falls onto Tom, flattening his head with a cymbal noise. Tom pursues Jerry, chasing him into his mousehole, into which Tom's face gets caught, elongating his nose. Tom then spots the canary, beating his wings into the air within his cage. The cat leaps for him, but instead gets himself caught inside his cage, which he then seals with the base. He flies onto a table and then runs away as Tom pursues him, but instead Tom pokes himself through the center of the table and swallows the canary. Fortunately for him, the everpresent "cuckoo..cuckoo..cuckoo" gag allows the bird to escape. Tom runs after the bird, and then rises into the air, beating his deltoids in order to stay afloat in the same matter as the canary. Tom grins at the camera until he runs into the wall and three potted plants hit him on the head. The cat recovers and sees the canary pacing away under a fourth pot. He covers the pot and pokes his eye through the hole. As Tom reaches under the pot to grab the bird, Jerry inserts Tom's tail into the windowsill and snaps the cord. Tom untangles himself and storms after the mouse, and the canary dives down and gives him a lift. They enter the hole, and Tom's nose is once again elongated, but this time, he has swallowed the duo. The mouse and canary squeeze out and take sanctuary in the mousehole.
After some time, Jerry allows the canary to fly back to his birdcage, but Tom suddenly appears from behind a sofa, mouth wide open, and the bird flies into Tom's mouth. Jerry retrieves the bird by using a hammer to break Tom's teeth, freeing the bird from his prison. The canary kicks out Tom's last tooth and flies off. As Tom snatches Jerry in his hand, the canary pulls up a floorboard and traps Tom's tail under it. In pain, Tom leaps up, and smacks his head on the cage, causing it to fall down on his head and onto the floor.
As Tom chases Jerry around the corner, the canary pulls him behind a curtain. Jerry and the bird trick Tom by dressing as two Indians and setting out from the curtain. Jerry waves and mutters "HOW" as the canary innocently smiles and waves. Tom doesn't catch it for a while, but soon sees the trick and chases after the two. The canary flies back into the small white enclosure strapped to Jerry's back. The mouse turns around slowly in dread, and they run off. The canary sticks its tongue out at Tom, only to bump his head on a chair. Tom chases the canary, and soon changes direction and goes after the mouse. Jerry and then Tom dive under a polar-bear skin complete with head, and when Tom pops out of the mouth, the canary (on top of it), stomps on the head, causing Tom to yell.
The canary picks up a gun; Jerry tricks Tom into thinking he was shot. The canary and Jerry shakes hands with each other...and Tom. They flee but only the canary escapes.
Tom catches Jerry and ties him to a toy train track, and then gets on the biggest train and activates it. The terrified canary grabs a bag with a bowling ball inside and carries it across the room to where the scene unfolds: Tom, with a vicarious face, is approaching the mouse fast, who begins to say his prayers. But, when the canary can't hold the bowling ball anymore, it falls out and crashes through the railroad and the ground, in which the train plunges with Tom still aboard.
The short ends with Jerry and the canary whistling "My Blue Heaven."
[edit] "Life with Tom"
- The final train scene was reused in 1952's "Life with Tom", albeit the music for it slightly slowed down and different sound effects were used. In that cartoon, Jerry declares the canary to be his best friend, although the bird's name is never provided.
