From Hand to Mouse is a 1944 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
Plot[]
A dimwitted lion has caught a fast-talking mouse (resembling Chuck Jones' creation Hubie and Bertie) to eat. The mouse pleads the lion to spare him, hoping that some day the mouse will be able to help the lion, as in the story of "The Lion and the Mouse". The lion releases the mouse, only for the mouse to trick him by shouting "Sucker!", causing the infuriated dumb lion to repetitively knock his head onto the tree.
The mouse talks the not-so-bright lion into releasing him on several more occasions, all with the same result of the lion getting tricked by the mouse. The mouse shouts "Sucker!" causing the infuriated dumb lion to repetitively knock him head onto the tree. When a gorilla no brighter than the lion himself interferes with the lion by using it as a "toy", it's up to the mouse to save him by replacing the lion with a bomb, which explodes after the gorilla plays with it, hence living up to his promise to the lion.
The lion and the mouse are about to make peace and become allies, when the mouse tricks the dumb lion again by making him fall off the cliff by stepping on a tree branch. The lion, now having been tricked by the mouse all along, gets frustrated, loses his sanity, and repetitively shouts into the mirror, "Sucker!"
Availability[]
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 3, Side 3: Chuck Jones
Streaming[]
(18 August 2020 - September 2020)
Censorship[]
When this cartoon aired on the American feeds of Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang, and on MeTV, the scene where the mouse disguises himself as a Zulu native was sometimes cut, although the part where the mouse disguises himself as an Indian chief was not cut.[1]
Notes[]
- The short is a parody of Aseop's Fable "The Lion and the Mouse".
- This cartoon, "Saddle Silly", and "Bugsy and Mugsy" were restored on HBO Max but were taken down.
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