by Linda Kay

Directed by: George Marshall

Synopsis: Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd find themselves in unique difficulties after they swerve their car to avoid a bull and crash into a barn. The angry owner (Otto Fries) refuses to let them retrieve it, leaving them stranded. And as if that weren’t bad enough, a lion is on the loose!

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): After overhearing about the escaped lion on the radio inside the house, Thelma gets the idea to use a pail and string to imitate a lion’s roar. This keeps the men cowering in the house while Zasu slips into the barn to get the car. Thelma is sitting on the ground outside the window of the farmhouse when a ginger tabby cat comes crawling up to her.

Thelma’s hand lands on the cat and for a moment she thinks it could be the lion.

Her worries are quickly put to ease when she looks down and sees the kitty (who has stuck his head inside the pail!)

Thelma picks up the cat and carries him around the side of the house where one of the farm hands is trying to escape through a window.

Thelma tosses the cat onto the man’s back and pulls the string to create a roar, making the man clambor back inside as the cat launches himself off the man’s back and out of the comedy short.

Final Mewsings: Cats are really just little lions at heart.

Many thanks to Wahrhaftig for letting us know about the cat in this short film.

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