Posse Cat

Plot synopsis:
Tom is sleeping lazily in a ranch kitchen, while Jerry throws a rope at a sausage to it from the cook. The cook is very angry with Tom for his laziness and refuses to give him his meal of a turkey leg and mashed potatoes in gravy until he gets rid of Jerry, chasing the cat out by shooting at him with his revolver.
Tom paints his finger brown to disguise it as a sausage and coerce Jerry into lassoing it. After pulling Tom through the mouse hole, Jerry retreats, with Tom chasing. Tom catches Jerry, but a rake strikes and rings the triangle calling for Tom's dinner, so Tom drops Jerry and runs to the cook with a plate, knife and fork in hands, only to be shot away again by the cook, who warns "I said no dinner 'till you catch that mouse!" Tom then tries to lasso Jerry, but accidentally lassos the turkey, along with the cook, who snatches the turkey back and shoots Tom away once more.
Later, as the cook is taking a nap, Tom lays a cheese trap for Jerry at his mousehole, but Jerry, outside, walks in and puts two pieces of bread between the sleeping cook's hand and rings the triangle, causing Tom to accidentally bite the cook's hand and be shot out again. After reaching safety, Tom takes a drink of water only to find it leaking out from holes in his body, no doubt caused by the cook's bullets, much to his annoyance. Tom then sees Jerry taking a baguette and gives chase, causing Jerry to place the baguette into a bull's tail. Tom then spies the baguette and bites it, causing the bull to charge Tom into the wall of the shack. As Tom charges at Jerry, Jerry stops him and presents him a contract; Jerry will allow Tom to capture him and earn the meal, as long as the cat shares it with the mouse. Tom agrees and the two shake hands.
Jerry allows Tom to shoot at him and earn the meal from the delighted cook, but Tom goes to eat it on his own, causing Jerry to remind him about the contract. Tom responds by shooting the contract, causing Jerry to throw Tom's meal onto his face. Tom chases Jerry with a red hot branding iron and is about to brand him in the rear with it when Jerry opens the door, which makes Tom continue running and he accidentally brands the cook in the rear instead. Angry, the cook chases Tom out with his revolvers, while Jerry, eating a turkey leg, watches as the cook chases Tom into the sunset.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
This Six-Shootin' Western Drew Blanks.
Well, this time we are down at the ranch out in the beautiful West (nice scenery, which looks like Montana with a big mountain in the background), and Tom, Jerry and a cook are the three "people" in this story.Jerry is snagging a hot sausage right underneath Tom's nose and the cook is not pleased.
He blasts the cat for being lazy and not doing his job.
All Tom wants to do - like Jerry - is eat!
When he gets dinner, the cook yanks the food away from him quickly and says, "You're not getting any dinner until you get rid of that varmit."So....Tom attempts to do just that.
As usual, it doesn't go well.
Even when he does capture the mouse, when he hears the clang of the dinner bell, he drops him and goes running for food.
Finally, Jerry offers a deal: 50-50 on the food if Tom pretends he's running Jerry out of the place.
The trick works until Tom gets greedy...and then....In all, so-so at best.
Most of what I've seen of Tom and Jerry cartoons are funnier than this.
Sorry, padnah!.
short & sweet.
Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse are in an old west setting.Tom won't be fed by the old cowboy into he catches Jerry.
Has a few funny moments.
Jokes are repeated, but at merely 6 minutes long it's still one of the better Tom & Jerry shorts..
A bit of a misfire..
Tom's master (voiced by Stan Freberg) won't feed lazy ranch cat Tom until he gets rid of Jerry, who has been stealing food from the kitchen via lasso.
Of course, every plan that Tom devises to catch the mouse backfires, at least until Jerry decides to make a deal with the cat.Another Tom and Jerry short set on the ranch (the earlier one being Texas Tom from 1950), Posse Cat is a rather unremarkable effort with routine and repetitive gags that fail to get the laughs: Tom sets a trap, it goes wrong, and his master fires his pistol at the cat as he runs for safety.
With not nearly enough inventiveness to the chaos, it all gets rather wearisome, and at just six and a half minutes, that's not a good thing.4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb..
Some good things, generally though not much great.
While I am a fan of the Tom and Jerry cartoons and always have been, Posse Cat for me was a disappointment.
Of course it does have good things.
The animation is very luscious, not unusual for the 50s Tom and Jerry cartoons.
The music is orchestrated beautifully and is very jazzy and catchy.
Stan Freberg does a good voice as the voice of Tom's master.
Tom and Jerry still have their distinct personalities and work very well as a partnership.
What is unfortunate for Posse Cat is that the gags are rather routine(the shooting guns being the biggest offender) and there is not much that came across as particularly funny to me.
The story is thin and not only is it a concept that has been done a lot in Tom and Jerry but you know exactly what is going to happen for much of the time.
Freberg's voicing is good here, but Tom's master even for a secondary character has a rather bland personality.
The pacing is never really secure, too many times I was wishing for it to pick up.
These make an initially scant 6 minutes duller than they ought to have been.
Overall, not much great which is disappointing considering it's Tom and Jerry.
While not their worst(Switchin' Kitten or Sorry Safari) of the cartoons done in their heyday(40s to late 50s) Posse Cat is a contender for the weakest of that era.
5/10 Bethany Cox. One of the best!.
Characters: Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, ranch cook.Directors: WILLIAM HANNA, Joseph BARBERA.
Animators: Irven Spence, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson.
Backgrounds: Robert Gentle.
Music: Scott Bradley.
Color by Technicolor.
Western Electric Sound System.
Producer: Fred Quimby.
Copyright 30 December 1953 (in notice: 1952) by Loew's Inc. A Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer "Tom and Jerry" cartoon.
6 minutes.COMMENT: This entry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's long-running and deservedly super-popular series is actually not so much a western spoof as a variation of the familiar Tom versus Jerry conflicts, but using western props in a western setting.
The colored servant who often initiates the action is here replaced by a crusty ranch-house cook, who refuses lazy Tom his much-desired meals until he gets rid of that varmint, Jerry.
After suffering indignities in several amusing encounters, Tom signs an agreement with Jerry.
The fast-paced little story then builds up to a riotous climax with a branding iron, when Tom reneges.
All in all, this Tom and Jerry must be classed as a most satisfying entry in the series.
And needless to say, it was produced with all the M-G-M cartoon department's usual expertise.