Angel Puss

Angel Puss is a 1944 Looney Tunes short directed by Charles M. Jones.
== Plot ==
A young African-American boy (drawn in blackface style) carries a sack to a river and laments that he has agreed to drown a cat. While the boy stares at the water, the cat slips out of the sack and fills it with bricks. When the boy says that he can't go through with the task, the hidden cat, pretending to be the boy's conscience, says, "Go ahead, Sambo, go ahead, boy," and reminds him that he has been paid four bits to do the job. Sambo reluctantly drops the bag in the river rather than return the money.
The cat then disguises itself as its own ghost, painting itself white and donning wings and a halo, and proceeds to "haunt" Sambo by repeatedly sneaking up on him and whispering "boo." Sambo runs away, but the cat rattles a pair of dice, causing Sambo to fall into a trance and sleepwalk back to the cat.
The hauntings continue until Sambo and the cat fall in a pond, washing off the cat's paint. When Sambo realizes that he has been tricked, he kills the cat with a shotgun blast. Immediately afterward, a line of nine ghost cats (representing a cat's nine lives) marches toward Sambo, saying, "And this time, brother, us ain't kiddin'."
== Caricatures ==
* Stepin Fetchit
== Notes ==
* Because the film contains stereotypical portrayals of African-Americans, it is among the group of controversial cartoons known to animation buffs as the Censored Eleven. "Angel Puss" is the only Chuck Jones film and the only Looney Tunes release on the list. In addition, this short was not shown at the TCM Movie Festival in Los Angeles in 2010, but has been restored for an indefinitely delayed DVD.
* This was the last cartoon to use the 1942-1944 Looney Tunes title card with Porky and Daffy in the rings. It wouldn't return until the late 1940s; with updated designs of Porky and Daffy, in "Riff Raffy Daffy" and the original non-Blue Ribbon versions of "Boobs in the Woods" and "The Prize Pest". Despite this, Porky and Daffy's faces would still continue to appear separately in the Looney Tunes rings in subsequent cartoons starring either Porky Pig or Daffy Duck respectively until the early 1950s.
* This is the first known Warner Bros. cartoon with the "Direction" byline to credit directors, as previous cartoons from 1933 to 1944 used "Supervision".
* This only collaboration between writer Lou Lilly and director Chuck Jones. The rest of Lilly's writer credits were directed by Bob Clampett.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
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Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:1944
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Lou Lilly
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with camera by John W. Burton