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The Night Watchman

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Director
  
Chuck Jones

Writer
  
Tedd Pierce (story)

Music director
  
Carl Stalling

Cast
  
Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen

Language
  
English

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Genre
  
Animation, Short, Comedy

Film series
  
Merrie Melodies

Producer
  
Leon Schlesinger

Duration
  

Release date
  
November 19, 1938

Similar movies
  
Merrie Melodies movies

The Night Watchman is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released to theaters on November 19, 1938. This short was the very first film directed by a then-credited Chuck Jones after he was promoted from an animator (where he was under Fred Avery and Robert Clampetts units).

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Plot

The Night Watchman movie scenes Thomas Cat then runs at the scene as he is doing a poor performance of being a night watchman Rather passively he attempts on shooing the mice out of the

A watchman gets sick, so his son is enlisted to watch the kitchen. When the gangland-style rats find out that hes the one on duty, they try to take over.

Availability

The Night Watchman is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 Disc 4.

Voice cast

  • Mel Blanc as Hoodlum Rats, Tommy Cat (when he screams to the rats to quiet down)
  • Bernice Hansen as Tommy Cat

    • References

    The Night Watchman Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Night Watchman Letterboxd