Smarty Cat

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Smarty Cat

Tom and Jerry series

The title card of Smarty Cat
Directed by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced by Fred Quimby
Story by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music by Scott Bradley
Animation by Irven Spence
Kenneth Muse
Ed Barge
Michael Lah
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) October 14, 1955
Color process Technicolor
Running time 6 minutes 50 seconds
Preceded by Tom and Chérie
Followed by Pecos Pest
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Smarty Cat is a 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in 1955. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was the last of the Hanna and Barbera-directed "wrap-around" cartoons in which the plot is based on flashbacks to earlier cartoons.

[edit] Plot

Tom's feline friends (Butch, kitten and Meathead) bring over their home movies featuring moments from Tom's past where he humiliates Spike the bulldog (Tom the Terrific Cat). Jerry innocently wants to view the home movies as well, but the cats kick him out of the house several times. Frustrated and at the end of his tether, Jerry brings Spike over to peek at the home movies through the window. Spike sees himself being depicted as a bumbling fool and breaks into the screening, running off after the cats. Jerry films the ensuing action with his own movie camera.

[edit] Notes

  • The cartoons featured in the flashbacks are:
  • The closing titles do not display the usual "An MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoon" caption that usually end a Tom and Jerry cartoon, but rather the standard blue "A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Cartoon" card.
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