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His Mouse Friday is a 1951 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 59th Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson and Ed Barge and released in theatres on July 7, 1951. The title is a pun combining references to the film His Girl Friday and the character of Friday from the novel Robinson Crusoe.

His Mouse Friday was re-issued into theatres on July 25, 1958.

Plot

Tom is first seen being ship-wrecked and lost at sea in a parody of Robinson Crusoe. He only has his old shoes to eat in order to survive. Tom though soon spots a distant tropical island and is catapulted there by a wave. After Tom finds it tough to eat a coconut and a tortoise he finds Jerry and decides to eat the mouse instead. Tom has Jerry on a frying pan but the rodent escapes and Tom chases him into a native village.

Using soot from a cooking pot Jerry disguises himself as a black native complete with a deep voice and talks gibberish to Tom. He presumably tells Tom he has to be cooked to death and orders him "up in pot". Then he gives him vegetables to cut but to "hold the onions". Tom, accepting his fate, cooperates, and he soon feels the heat after Jerry lights a fire underneath the pot. Tom, however, then notices Jerry's loincloth has come loose exposing his brown fur. Discovering he has been played for a sap the cat taunts Jerry, who uses a bone tied to his head to fly away. Tom gives chase, but soon ends up stopping at the feet of a group of real cannibals, with their leader licking his lips delightfully and fancying barbecued cat. Tom runs away in horror with the cannibals in hot pursuit. Jerry believes himself safe now but is immediately confronted by a shorter and thicker-lipped cannibal who also licks his lips in delight, fancying barbecued mouse. The terrified Jerry runs off with the cannibal in pursuit as the cartoon ends.

Voice cast

• Paul Frees as Jerry and The Cannibals

Production

• Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Animation: Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson, Ed Barge
• Story: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Layout: Dick Bickenbach
• Music: Scott Bradley
• Produced by: Fred Quimby

Production information

Jerry speaks in this cartoon as an island native, but is not shown on television because of racial stereotyping of African Americans.

References

1. "Additional Information about the Theatrical Cartoon His Mouse Friday". bcdb.com. Retrieved August 5, 2019.

External links

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• His Mouse Friday at IMDb

• 1951 films
• 1958 films
• 1951 short films
• 1951 animated films
• Tom and Jerry short films
• Films based on Robinson Crusoe
• Films directed by Joseph Barbera
• Films directed by William Hanna
• 1950s American animated films
• American films
• 1950s comedy films
• Cannibalism in fiction
• Films scored by Scott Bradley
• American animated short films
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short films