Set in a Depression era urban tenement, which would have been familiar to movie going audiences at the time.
The gag of the monkey winding the cat's tail was nodded to in Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Vitaphone production reel #5733.
The Fifty Fifth Looney Tunes Cartoon To Be Released
Popular film stars Laurel and Hardy and Harpo Marx are briefly acknowledged by the silly simian.