The Two Mouseketeers (1952)
- Directed by
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- Genre
- animation, comedy, adventure
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 76 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Jerry and his friend Nibbles dress as musketeers and try to steal food from a royal banquet. Tom the cat guards the table, leading to a chase full of cartoon antics.
playfulfast-pacedslapstickwhimsicallightheartedmischievouscartoonish
What happens
The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 68th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theaters as early as January 27, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The short is a spoof of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers and its film adaptations, featuring the mice Jerry and his best friend, Nibbles as the "Mouseketeers" trying to raid the French king's banquet table, which is protected by Tom as a guard. Three years after the cartoon's release, the term "Mousketeer" was also used to refer to the child cast members of the television show, The Mickey Mouse Club. The cartoon was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, and Irven Spence. Musical supervision was done by Scott Bradley, using a version of the theme music by Nelson Eddy and the Sportsmen Quartet named "Soldier of Fortune", from the film The Girl of the Golden West. The character of Nibbles speaks French in this short and was voiced by six-year-old Francoise Brun-Cottan. The Two Mouseketeers won the series' sixth Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Such was the cartoon's success, that Hanna and Barbera created a total of four adventures in the Mouseketeers series; the second, 1954's Touché, Pussy Cat! received an Oscar nomination. The third, Tom and Chérie, followed in 1955, and Royal Cat Nap in 1958. The premise was also featured in comic books from Dell Comics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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