The Two Mouseketeers

The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 65th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on March 15, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The Two Mouseketeers won the series' sixth Academy Award. Such was the cartoon's success, that Hanna and Barbera created a total of four adventures in the Mouseketeers series; the second, 1954's Touché, Pussy Cat! received an Oscar nomination.

Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Produced by Fred Quimby.

Dialogue

[Jerry and Nibbles are seen walking triumphantly down the street with stolen banquet food]

Chorus: [singing] We live / Men who are happy and free / Birds of a feather who...

[Jerry and Nibbles pause as they see in the distance a guillotine. The blade comes down, strongly suggesting that Tom was executed off-screen. They both gulp]

Nibbles: Pauvre, pauvre pussycat. C'est la guerre! (Poor, poor pussycat. Such is war!)

[Jerry and Nibbles then continue their victory march off into the night]

Chorus: [resume singing] We're off, we're off / Doing and daring and fighting and sharing / Soldiers of fortune are we / Soldiers of fortune are we.

Cast

• Francoise Brun-Cottan as Nibbles