Directed by: Tex Avery
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A frustrated black cat (voiced by Paul Frees doing a Jimmy Durante style impersonation) is fed up with people and decides to escape to the moon for some relief.
Cartoon Cats: The cat is sitting in a crate in an alley when the short begins. He begins to explain why he hates people so much.
In the first scenario, the cat is drinking milk from a bottle left on a doorstep. Someone opens the door and smacks the cat with a broom, leaving him inside the bottle.
Next the cat tries singing on a backyard fence but gets a boot thrown at him, which he swallows.
Some nasty boys then tie paper bags to the cat’s feet to make him shake his paws while walking.
Even a sweet little baby turns into a terror when he starts slamming the cat back and forth on the ground.
The cat bemoans the fact he can’t even sharpen his claws. After he rips open the arm of a couch, a woman hits him with a frying pan.
When introduced to a bulldog by another woman, the cat is terrified.
And for good reason! The dog starts clobbering the cat the moment the woman leaves. But when he hears the woman returning, the bulldog douses himself with ketchup and throws an axe into the cat’s hands!
The cat next points out how people often forget to put him out at night. After looking around desperately, the cat breaks a hole through the front door. He is then shown getting a glass of water from a dispenser outside.
While trying to woo a pretty female cat, the black cat is blasted by a man’s shotgun.
On a busy city street the cat is trampled and then kicked.
Having had enough, the cat spots a rocket company and hops on a rocketship to the moon.
Once on the moon the cat expects to finally get some peace and quiet.
Unfortunately, he is assaulted by a number of surreal creatures who torment him in ways that are too bizarre to describe!
Using a golf club, the cat “drives” himself back to the USA and is happy to be trampled on, saying that he now loves people.
Final Mewsings: Was this film made to discourage cats from travelling to the moon?
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