The Chuck Jones Era of Tom and Jerry is great in several aspects, the Character Designs are Too Beautiful in addition to having Fluid and great Movements, the Music in this Era is not as Perfect as that of Scott Bradley but this Era has Music more Suitable for the 60s and quite Good in general, the humor of this era it is similar to the Looney Tunes and makes the Comic Scenes be different from the usual and at the same time funny!.
This Short has several Great and Original Ideas at the same time, and in addition to that they were implemented quite well!, It is that Tom and Jerry after so many Fights agree to meet in a Place to both Challenge each other to a Duel and the one who Survives is the Winner!.
And in the end, as no one wins, the same scene from the beginning is repeated, but with Tom declining the Agreed day and hitting Jerry, concluding without a Winner.
This idea for a short is good, I liked the Iconic scene with Tom and Jerry with their backs to each other with some Guns, it's too funny to see how Jerry can't load a gun and ends up shooting Tom breaking the rule of shooting after taking 5 steps!, There are also other memorable scenes like where they use slingshots and everything goes out of control or the scene with the cannon.
The Animation is still Pretty Good, the Movements are Fluid as Always and the Backgrounds look Luxury, The Mansion where Tom and Jerry Fight is also very well drawn and looks pretty Good.
The Short Marks Dean Elliot's Debut as a composer for this Era after Eugene Podanny left the Series, Elliot's Music is not as Cartoony and Cute as Podanny's but Elliot's Music fits better in the short as Elliot Provided Quality music which adapts to the Atmosphere of the Short and is Much More Memorable than Podanny's Music.
The voice acting is quite simple, it is only Vocal Effects provided by Mel Blanc (which are pretty funny in my opinion).
I love the idea of a duel, that Tom and Jerry agree to put an end to their differences makes the short unique in the entire franchise, the iconic scene of the duo with their backs turned and each one with a gun in hand is quite good and funny the time.
In itself, Duel Personality is not the Best of Chuck Jones and Much less of Tom and Jerry, but it is a short film with an Original idea quite well done that fulfills its Initial Purpose, To Entertain, and is on a Par with other great shorts of It was like O Solar Meow and Pent-House Mouse, but I feel that the Short had a too Short Duration since it only lasts 6 Minutes and 1 Second but the duration is acceptable because the Short does not have a clear purpose, it is just a Duel between the Cat and the Favorite Mouse of the whole World!.
For everything I said before, Duel Personality gets a 9!.
