Leave Us Chase It

1947
7m

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A cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells the feline he can if he just tries to em... Read allA cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells the feline he can if he just tries to emulate everyone's favorite comic book hero. So he obtains a costume like Superkatt's (a bab... Read allA cat who has just been chased by a mouse wielding a meat cleaver laments, "Why can't I catch that mouse?!" A parrot reading "Superkatt" comics tells the feline he can if he just tries to emulate everyone's favorite comic book hero. So he obtains a costume like Superkatt's (a baby outfit) and after making a less-than-spectacular heroic entrance, chases the rodent cons... Read all

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Stan Freberg

Superkatt
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Cal Howard

Superkatt
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William Shaw

Superkatt
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Director
- Howard Swift
Writers
- Dan Gordon
- Cal Howard
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Exit, Pursued By Mouse With Cleaver

A cat is chased through a door by a cleaver-wielding mouse. Acting on the advice of a parrot, he peruses a comic book and decides to model his actions against his foe on Superkatt. Dressed in a baby bonnet and diaper, he tries to squelch his enemy, to a notable lack of success.

Superkatt was the delusional comic book creation of Dan Gordon, a former Fleischer animator and this is his only movie appearance. Doubtless this was intended as the first of a series, but Columbia shifted to distributing UPA cartoons alone and it got no further. This effort is standard, if hyper-violent, and that violence may have acted against its success. The gags, as directed by Howard Swift, are well executed, but probably struck the first-time viewer as simply too weird.

Gordon's comic strip was moderately successful, but by the mid-fifties, with the decline of comic books and the decrying of their violence that led to the Comic Code Authority, Superkatt was done.