Leave Us Chase It

A cat is chased through a door by a cleaver-wielding mouse. Acting on the advice of a parrot, he peruses a comic book and decides to model his actions against his foe on Superkatt. Dressed in a baby bonnet and diaper, he tries to squelch his enemy, to a notable lack of success.

Superkatt was the delusional comic book creation of Dan Gordon, a former Fleischer animator and this is his only movie appearance. Doubtless this was intended as the first of a series, but Columbia shifted to distributing UPA cartoons alone and it got no further. This effort is standard, if hyper-violent, and that violence may have acted against its success. The gags, as directed by Howard Swift, are well executed, but probably struck the first-time viewer as simply too weird.

Gordon's comic strip was moderately successful, but by the mid-fifties, with the decline of comic books and the decrying of their violence that led to the Comic Code Authority, Superkatt was done.