The mice of a house prepare for war when their appeasement policy fails to end the menace of a cat.The mice of a house prepare for war when their appeasement policy fails to end the menace of a cat.The mice of a house prepare for war when their appeasement policy fails to end the menace of a cat.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
Mel Blanc
- Dumb Mouse
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
Michael Maltese
- Various
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
The Sportsmen Quartet
- Vocalists
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- TriviaAfter collaborating with the Cat, the Dumb Mouse is holding session with the other mice, and they are singing a song to the tune of Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me). The song was first recorded by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra on 2 September 1941. The song subsequently was recorded by many others, including Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Big Joe Turner, and Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra.
- GoofsWhen the mice are serving the cat, the cat sits up and a mouse passes through his head.
- Quotes
Cat: ...Have you ever had the feeling you wanted something... but you didn't know what it was?
Dumb Mouse: ...Heheh, oh yeah! I always get that feeling, too!
- ConnectionsEdited into Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988)
- SoundtracksAin't We Got Fun
(uncredited)
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Ray Egan and Gus Kahn
Sung by the mice at the beginning
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Wow...no wonder this one is floating about on various Roku channels!
"The Fifth-Column Mouse" is a bad cartoon from Looney Tunes...something you'd just never expect. In fact, I had to check twice to see that it WAS from Looney Tunes, as qualitatively it's well below the quality of their other early 1940s output. The cartoon is not funny and it features a lot of singing...and it's incredibly dated. No wonder I found this on a Roku channel...as apparently Warner Brothers (who owned Looney Tunes) hasn't bothered keeping the rights to it!
The cartoon is a very obvious parable about appeasement...the type that Neville Chamberlain and his likes did with Germany before WWII began. A mouse is caught and instead of the cat eating him, he hires the mouse to be his spokesman and convince the other mice that the cat likes them! This lasts for about 30 seconds and then the cat is out to eat the mice. The mice respond by mobilizing for war...along with a lot of annoying singing.
Overall, a bit of a chore to watch this propaganda cartoon and it just isn't funny.
The cartoon is a very obvious parable about appeasement...the type that Neville Chamberlain and his likes did with Germany before WWII began. A mouse is caught and instead of the cat eating him, he hires the mouse to be his spokesman and convince the other mice that the cat likes them! This lasts for about 30 seconds and then the cat is out to eat the mice. The mice respond by mobilizing for war...along with a lot of annoying singing.
Overall, a bit of a chore to watch this propaganda cartoon and it just isn't funny.
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- planktonrules
- Aug 28, 2020
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- Fifth Column Mouse
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943) officially released in Canada in English?
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