Director: TEX AVERY. Story: Jack Miller. Animation: Sid Sutherland. Music director: Carl W. Stalling. Color by Technicolor. Producer: Leon Schlesinger.
Copyright 18 December 1938 by The Vitaphone Corp. A Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoon. U.S. release: 31 December 1938. 7 minutes.
COMMENT: Hungry, fun-loving mice break into an experimental laboratory where Dr I.M. Nutts (not seen) has caged a beautiful white mouse. After a number of mediocre spot gags (a mouse lights up intermittently after drinking neon fluid) intercut with shots of the prisoner and a ravenous cat on the prowl, the white mouse is rescued and marries her rescuer.
In an ironic fade-out twist, just as the drooling cat is about to pounce on the happy couple, they remind him they intend to raise lots of fat little mice. The cat decides to wait. This bizarre, somewhat unpleasant iris out is the only indication that Tex Avery had anything to do with this one, which is otherwise rather ordinary and lacks Avery's characteristic touches such as the bulging-eyed double takes and the frantic pace. However, he does make time for a Song: "Two Happy Mice".
COMMENT: Hungry, fun-loving mice break into an experimental laboratory where Dr I.M. Nutts (not seen) has caged a beautiful white mouse. After a number of mediocre spot gags (a mouse lights up intermittently after drinking neon fluid) intercut with shots of the prisoner and a ravenous cat on the prowl, the white mouse is rescued and marries her rescuer.
In an ironic fade-out twist, just as the drooling cat is about to pounce on the happy couple, they remind him they intend to raise lots of fat little mice. The cat decides to wait. This bizarre, somewhat unpleasant iris out is the only indication that Tex Avery had anything to do with this one, which is otherwise rather ordinary and lacks Avery's characteristic touches such as the bulging-eyed double takes and the frantic pace. However, he does make time for a Song: "Two Happy Mice".