Mouse Trouble

Mouse Trouble is the seventeenth animated theatrical short of the Tom and Jerry series. It was released on November 23, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby, and written and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Tom follows a help book in catching Jerry.

Characters
Harry E. Lang
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mailman
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Cat
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Cat
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jerry Mouse
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna
 * style="background-color:#clear"| William Hanna

Locations

 * Mammy Two-Shoes's residence

Objects

 * How to Catch a Mouse
 * Girl mouse toy (Sara Berner)
 * Block Buster

Vehicles

 * None

Music
The music is composed by Scott Bradley.

Release
It was originally released in theaters on November 23, 1944, then released on December 15, 1951.

Behind the scenes

 * How to Catch a Mouse is "A Random Mouse Book", which is a parody of Random House books.
 * Tom dying at the end is the first time a main character dies on-screen.

Everlasting influence
Tom reads about this short in Jerry's diary (with accompanying flashbacks) in the aptly named short Jerry's Diary. Her marked it May 12, Thursday.