Night performance for Tom

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Movie
German title Night performance for Tom
Original title Jerry and Jumbo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1953
length 7:13 minutes
Rod
Director William Hanna ,
Joseph Barbera
script William Hanna,
Joseph Barbera
production Fred Quimby
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
music Scott Bradley

Tom's Night Show is a 1953 American animated short film directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera .

action

During the night a train passes Tom and Jerry's house. The train is supposed to transport elephants for a circus. A baby elephant, Jumbo and his mother fall out of the unlocked part of the train. Jumbo rolls into Tom and Jerry's house and lands right in Tom's sleeping basket. There he hides under the blanket. Tom lies down on the blanket without noticing Jumbo. Jumbo runs away with Tom sleeping on his back. When he walks under a table, Tom is painfully stripped off. Tom does not recognize the cause and goes to sleep again, doubting himself. Jumbo now sucks the milk from Tom's bowl with his trunk from a great distance, which makes Tom slowly wake up. Meanwhile, Jerry is stealing milk from the refrigerator. Tom, enraged about the theft of milk, catches him doing it and suspects Jerry of stealing his milk when he sees the milk on Jerry's whiskers. Tom hits Jerry with his bowl, but Jerry escapes.

Jerry finds Jumbo. Together they want to rob the kitchen, but a sack of peanuts tears up. Both escape into a storeroom, followed by Tom. From there, Jumbo sucks these peanuts in with his trunk. That scares Tom because he thinks the peanuts will go away on their own. Jerry and Jumbo meet again in the closet and Jerry has an idea. He paints Jumbo like a mouse by coloring him brown and twisting its trunk into a ball (which looks like a mouse nose). The door opens. Tom sees little Jerry and he hits him on the foot with a hammer and closes the door. When Tom opens the door again, he sees Jumbo as a giant mouse who is also mistreating him with a hammer. This repeats itself several times until Jumbo and Jerry escape.

Tom tries to set up a mousetrap for Jumbo, but gets into it himself. The attempt to pull Jerry out of the mouse hole also fails because Tom pulls out Jumbo instead and beats him up. As a last resort, Tom tries to shoot Jerry with a rifle. Here comes the mother elephant, who also colors herself as Jerry. When Tom thinks he recognizes Jerry and the two elephants as giant mice, he is terrified and flees in panic, breaking through fences and walls.

production

Tom and the Lion Number was the 74th Tom and Jerry cartoon by Hanna and Barbera. It was released in Technicolor on February 21, 1953 as part of the MGM cartoon series Tom and Jerry .

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