Puss 'n' Boats (1966)

Directed by

Abe Levitow

Genre

comedy film, adventure film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In this animated short, Jerry the mouse disguises himself as a ship captain and torments Tom the cat aboard a vessel. Their antics include a scene in space where an astronaut waves at Tom, and Jerry ends up trying to feed Tom to a shark.

slapstickfast-pacedwhimsicalzanylightheartedchaoticcartoonish

What happens

Puss 'n' Boats is a 1966 Tom and Jerry animated short. It was directed by Abe Levitow and produced by Chuck Jones, and is the first short with Carl Brandt as music composer. The title's a play-on-words of the phrase "Puss in Boots", and is similar to Cruise Cat (1952), from the Hanna-Barbera era. In the film, Jerry impersonates a sea captain aboard a ship. In a scene taking place in the stratosphere, there is a depiction of an unnamed astronaut from the Gemini spacecraft doing a spacewalk and waving at Tom. The final scenes of the film involve Jerry trying to feed Tom to a shark, resulting in Tom fleeing with the shark in pursuit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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