''Mouse and Garden'' is a 1960
Warner Bros.
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Looney Tunes
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Friz Freleng
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The
Academy Award
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-nominated cartoon was released on July 16, 1960, and stars
Sylvester.
The title is a play on ''
House & Garden''. Sylvester is voiced by
Mel Blanc
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, and Sam Cat by
Daws Butler
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in the style of
Frank Fontaine
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's "John" from ''
The Jack Benny Program
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'' and "Crazy Guggenheim" from ''
The Jackie Gleason Show
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''Cavalcade of Stars''
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''.
Plot
Sylvester and his friend, Sam Cat are rummaging through trash cans for food, until Sylvester spots a mouse sneaking past them. After a little scuffle, the two felines agree to share the mouse for breakfast in the morning, but each frequently tries to get the mouse for himself while the other is asleep. Eventually, in one last attempt with a motorboat, it takes off with both of them, and they end up getting stranded on a tiny island. The cats kick each other repeatedly as the mouse rows past them on a jug singing
Moonlight Bay
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See also
*
List of American films of 1960
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Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
External links
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Looney Tunes shorts
Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
1960 films
1960 animated films
1960 short films
Animated films about cats
Films about mice and rats
Films scored by Milt Franklyn
1960s Warner Bros. animated short films
Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese
Short films directed by Friz Freleng
1960s English-language films
Sylvester the Cat films
Films set on fictional islands
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