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Mouse in Manhattan is a Tom & Jerry animated short released in American theaters on 7th July In it, Jerry has had enough of the country life and decides to leave to city. He writes a goodbye letter for a sleeping Tom before leaving to New York City to experience life in the city. Here he ends up as a makeshift shoe-polisher, admires the towering skyscrapers, gets nauseous in an elevator, has a close shave with oncoming traffic, and dangles precariously over the city on an ever-breaking candle.
Jerry’s highlights include dancing with several placecards (in the form of attractive women), until he gets stuck in a champagne bottle and is popped all the way to the ground and chased by an alley full of vicious cats, hurtled across the city on trash cans, smashed into a jewelery shop window and then shot at by the police.
As Jerry escapes the city (and is nearly run over by a subway train), he quickly races back to the countryside, where he finds Tom still asleep. He destroys his note and kisses Tom before nailing a placard reading “Home Sweet Home” above his mousehole. The story is loosely modeled on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, especially the notion of the city as a place of both riches and fear, except that no mouse takes Jerry’s place in the country.
The cartoon is unusual in that Tom is barely in it and it has no cat-and-mouse chase scenes. Instead most of its energy comes from a fusion of music with scenery, specifically cityscapes. The music was composed by Scott Bradley, and the cartoon was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson and produced by Fred Quimby
