The Cheeseville Cat Defense is ruthlessly efficient at keeping cats out of the city, so the cats trick Mighty Mouse into luring them out.
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Title: Cat Alarm (1961)
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The Cheeseville Cat Defense is too effective. There is no way the marauding cats can get in and capture the mice. After several failed attempts, the leader of the cats hits on a plan. Instead of trying to break in, why not lure the mice out? And who better to do it than Mighty Mouse? Mighty Mouse is taking a well-earned vacation. But a mouse newscaster appears on TV, announcing that the dam has burst and is about to flood Cheeseville. He doesn't know that a cat had gutted his TV and used a mouse hand puppet to make the false announcement from inside the television set. Mighty Mouse commands the citizens of Cheeseville to evacuate and take shelter. It's almost too late before he learns that the dam is as sturdy as ever. Written by J. Spurlin
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31 December 1961 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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Narrator: This is the peaceful little village of Cheeseville. There hasn't been a marauding cat inside this village for many years.
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[first lines]Narrator: This is the peaceful little village of Cheeseville. There hasn't been a marauding cat inside this village for many years.
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This cartoon finds Mighty Mouse on vacation in Miami Beach, looking ready for retirement. This is just as well, for he's in his last theatrical appearance. His constituents in Cheeseville participate in an elaborate "Cat Defense" which is modeled after the real-life Civil Defense system of the Cold War.
Cats who try to break through the fence get electrocuted. Their powerful car gets turned into a mangled, wheezy jalopy when they try to crash through the front gate. Paratroopers end up wrapped in their own 'chutes like mummies. But the cats persevere and find a way to trap the mice -- with Mighty Mouse's help!
The animation is cheap but not bad, thanks to some perspective motions and imaginative sight gags. Larz Bourne's storytelling has enough clever touches to put a decent end to this well-known Terrytoons series.
-Tony