The Million Dollar Cat

Plot synopsis:
While Tom is throwing darts at an apple on Jerry's head à la William Tell (he even throws one between his legs while blindfolded), a telegram arrives. Though it is meant for his owner, Tom reads it himself and discovers that he has been left a million dollars in a will from his owner's eccentric aunt, making him ecstatic. Jerry also reads the letter and gets just as happy as Tom. Tom quickly learns why after he reads the telegram again, because the telegram has a condition that forbids him to ever harm any living animal, especially mice, or else he is likely to lose everything.
The next day, news of Tom's inheritance quickly spreads and he moves into 1 Park Avenue. Although he at first enjoys the attention and wealth he is given, Jerry decides to use the telegram's condition against Tom as revenge for tormenting him. He continually follows Tom, despite the cat's best attempts to get rid of him, and proceeds to take advantage of his freedom through various means, including slapping Tom's dickey in his face, assaulting him in his limousine, eating his sundae, and even throwing him out of bed whilst still falling asleep.
The next morning, after Jerry steals his bathroom towel, Tom decides to get rid of Jerry. After a few ideas, he eventually decides on hanging a fire exit sign on the window. He strikes a match to start a fire in front of the bathroom door, and Jerry promptly jumps out of the window. The cat cheers before sitting down to enjoy his breakfast, but when he grabs his napkin, however, he uncovers Jerry, who posts the telegram on the table and eats Tom's breakfast. As a final insult, he attacks Tom yet again with the rest of the breakfast material, reminding him that as long as the "Even A Mouse" rule stands, he can do whatever he wants to Tom, then he once again slaps Tom's dickey in his face. This proves to be the final straw: Tom has had enough and becomes enraged, and the shocked Jerry realizes that he has pushed the cat too far. Tom furiously grabs the telegram, tears it into pieces, and even shoves the "Even A Mouse" proviso into Jerry's mouth, literally making and forcing him to eat his words. Jerry swallows it in horror at what is about to happen, as Tom leaps into the air with a loud and insane scream before attacking Jerry with the crockery and broken breakfast tray. After a few seconds, he breaks the fourth wall that it will cost him his fortune but he is still happy and satisfied, and continues attacking Jerry.

Tags: psychedelic, comic

Review:
Money Can't Buy Tom's Happiness.
Tom gets interrupted from playing William Tell with darts (with Jerry being the poor victim with the apple on his head) when he gets a telegram stating his "eccentric Aunt Harriet" died and has left him a million dollars!Jerry is all excited, too, as happy as Tom. How could that be?
Well, points to the bottom of the telegram, which Tom didn't see.
It said "all benefits will cease should the cat bring harm to any living thing EVEN A MOUSE."Tom makes all the headlines in the New York City papers as he marches his way to a penthouse on Park Avenue.
(Jerry has a mouse hole with a veranda on top that says, 1/2 Park Ave. He wears a top hat, tails, gloves, etc., too!)However, as the story unfolds we get the message that "money doesn't buy happiness." Jerry hogs most of Tom's luxury items and food and each time the cat is ready to kill the mouse, Jerry pulls out the telegram reminding him he can't.
It's driving Tom nuts.
In the end, well, he'd rather be poor and happy by beating the crap out of Jerry.In all, I would label it slightly below-par, laugh-wise.
It looks like one of the earliest Tom and Jerry animated shorts.
The artwork is not up to par and it just has a primitive feel to it..
enjoyable.
Tom the cat stands to inherit a cool million dollars even on the stipulation that he can't harm one single living thing even a mouse.
So of course Jerry the mouse has a field day with this news and torments Tom unmercifully, but you can only push a cat so far.
This is a humorous cartoon.
Tom speaks in this one, but it's not as grating as it was in the "Zoot Cat" short so I didn't mind quite as much.
While it's not one of Tom and Jerry's best if you like these type of animated shorts, you could really do worse than this one.
This cartoon can be found on disc one of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry" My Grade: B+.
The Million Dollar Cat. Yet another delightful Tom and Jerry cartoon.
The best?
Probably not.
The funniest?
Same answer really.
Entertaining?
In short I thoroughly enjoyed this cartoon.
It did have a nice story, probably not the most original but is still effective, and the sight gags are very funny and inventive.
What I loved most about The Million Dollar Cat though was the animation, the backgrounds were lovely, the colouring audacious, the characters well drawn and the skyscrapers wonderful and majestic to look at.
True, there are better looking Tom and Jerry cartoons, but for its time it is perfectly reasonable.
The music as always is energetic, while Tom and Jerry are both great as Jerry constantly reminds Tom "not even a mouse".
Overall, very entertaining and well animated.
10/10 Bethany Cox. One of my favorites!.
This is absolutely one of my favorite Tom & Jerry Short!
It Starts when Tom is playing dart and jerry is in the goal-table, Tom receive a telegram saying that his masters aunt has left 1 million dollars to Tom, he screams out his happiness and Jerry is wondering why he is so happy, then he goes and read the letter and it says that if Tom hurts a living thing, he loses all his money..
Tom moves to Park Ave and of course Jerry follows him to his new place, and torment him all the time by eating Tom's food, throwing him out the bed, using the shower all the morning knowing that Tom can do nothing to stop him..The next morning Tom is waiting to enter the Bathroom but jerry is in there and he opens the door and take Tom's towel and closes the door and Tom is trying to open the door but fails, He begins to think how he can get rid of Jerry and gets an idea!
He writes a paper where it says ''Fire Exit'' and put it in the window and he starts a little Fire and Jerry jumps down the skyscraper and Tom is so happy and go to eat his breakfast but then to his surprise Jerry appears with the cutlery and eat up all Tom's food, throwing food at him and degrade him, Tom get's Furious and tear the Telegram apart and press the teared paper in Jerry's Mouth and screams in anger and destroy the whole table and gets enraged against Jerry and he speaks too!
''Im throwing away a million dollars..
But I'm Still happy!'' And so it ends...Enormously funny entertainment!
If you haven't seen it i strongly recommend it!My Grade: A+.
The Million Dollar Cat. The Million Dollar Cat (1944) *** 1/2 (out of 4) One of the classics in the series, Tom receives a telegram telling him that he's inherited a million dollars but he can only keep it as long as he doesn't hurt anything.
Including a mouse.
Tom heads to New York City where he's living it up but it doesn't take long for Jerry to show up and begin tormenting him.
THE MILLION DOLLAR CAT is the one episode where I can say I really, really hated Jerry.
I mean, he's just so vicious and cruel to Tom here that you can't help but hope something happens to him so that Tom can enjoy his life and money.
This film features a lot of very funny moments but of course it's all building up to whether or not Tom flips out and gives up on the money.
Very fast, very fun and certainly one of the best..
Tom gets rich meanwhile Jerry goes to far..
In this picture from 1944, Tom gets an telegram that states he inherited a million dollars.
Provided he dosen't harm any living creature including an mouse.
Jerry loves the clause but Tom dosen't.
They end up in Park Avenue in an New York City apartment and throughout the picture, Jerry keeps reminding Tom about the telegram.
Which forces Tom to seemingly to make sure Jerry's death was acendental.
However, no matter what Tom does, there was Jerry not far behind.
They even shared an bed together expect that Jerry pushes tom off the bed and just when Tom is preparing to kill Jerry with an bat, he reminds Tom about the telegram.
So, Tom hits himself with the bat.
Eventually, Tom's had it and stuffed Jerry's mouth with the telegram,and starts his revenge with Jerry.
He tells the audience that he's throwing away an million dollars.
But, he's happy and resumes his revenge.
Now this is one of an few films that either character speaks as well.
I recommend it as well.This picture gets an 8 out of 10..
Meowlionaire moggy..
Aunt Harriet leaves Tom $1m on the condition that he doesn't harm a living thing, even a mouse.
Naturally, this gives Jerry free rein to torment Tom, but a cat can only be pushed so far...This one is a fairly predictable example of Tom and Jerry knockabout fun-nothing exceptional, but enjoyable enough for fans of the cat and mouse.
Jerry helping himself to Tom's food at every turn is vert amusing, as is his ability to suddenly appear despite Tom's best efforts to distance himself from the rodent (Jerry reappears even after being tricked into leaping out of the window of Tom's Park Avenue penthouse apartment).The finale holds few surprises, with Tom finally losing his patience and attacking Jerry.
He's thrown away his fortune, but he's happy!.
Manners vs.
millions.
"The Million Dollar Cat" is an American cartoon from 1944, so this one was released during the days of WWII, and this means it has its 75th anniversary next year.
It is a Hanna Barbera production and yes you guess correctly that here we got another Tom & Jerry cartoon and like the others it runs for 7 minutes, slightly under, and even without an Oscar nomination or even win, this is still today among the more, maybe even most, known starring the world's most famous cat-and-mouse duo.
Tom for once is the master of the house this time having sent mail to him even and he inherits a huge sum of money under the premise that he can never harm Jerry (or any other living creature) again.
I must say as a consequence Jerry is an unlikable nuisance really in here and is just annoying for the rest of the film.
Luckily, Tom's instincts prevail eventually and I am happy he's happy, even if it is still somewhat strange to hear him talk.
By the way, Bill Hanna voiced Tom himself there.
Overall, an okay little cartoon, one of the better T&J cartoons I'd say, but not one of the best.
See it if you like old animation.