Even if the the story is a familiar one - a cat told to get rid of the mice in the home or he's history - this was an outstanding Looney Tunes cartoon with a different main character.
Here, we have "Dodsworth," a fat and very lazy cartoon, whose philosophy on life is summed up near the beginning. After being lectured, he says to himself, "What a revoltin' development. I don't mind an honest day's work as long.....as somebody else does it."
He comes up with the idea of tutoring someone else to catch the mice for him since, as he says, nobody in the Dodsworth cat family has ever had to stoop to catching mice for a living. His first pupil is this cute little kitten.
How Dodsworth uses the kitten and what kind of kitten it turns out to be is hilarious. There is some very inventive material here. Both the kitten and all the mice were very entertaining.
A familiar actor from the '50s and '60s did the voice of Dodsworth: Sheldon Leonard and Bea Bernaderet, also a familiar name, voiced Dodsworth's lady boss of the house.
Many times the endings to these type of stories are abrupt or a little bit lame....but not here. The ending is terrific, making this one of the better cartoons I have seen on this Spotlight Volume 4 two-disc DVD.
Here, we have "Dodsworth," a fat and very lazy cartoon, whose philosophy on life is summed up near the beginning. After being lectured, he says to himself, "What a revoltin' development. I don't mind an honest day's work as long.....as somebody else does it."
He comes up with the idea of tutoring someone else to catch the mice for him since, as he says, nobody in the Dodsworth cat family has ever had to stoop to catching mice for a living. His first pupil is this cute little kitten.
How Dodsworth uses the kitten and what kind of kitten it turns out to be is hilarious. There is some very inventive material here. Both the kitten and all the mice were very entertaining.
A familiar actor from the '50s and '60s did the voice of Dodsworth: Sheldon Leonard and Bea Bernaderet, also a familiar name, voiced Dodsworth's lady boss of the house.
Many times the endings to these type of stories are abrupt or a little bit lame....but not here. The ending is terrific, making this one of the better cartoons I have seen on this Spotlight Volume 4 two-disc DVD.