This short once again matches Speedy Gonzales against Sylvester, with Sylvester once again coming out the worse in the end-rather painfully at times! As I want to discuss the short in at least a little detail, this is a spoiler warning:
Sylvester is guarding the mice being held in an experimental laboratory and one of the opening scenes reads like the clichéd scenes in a jail house picture, complete with a mouse playing mournfully on harmonica-one half expects a little mouse dressed in priestly vestments consoling the next poor soul scheduled to walk the last mile. They wonder why no one on their village is trying to rescue them.
Meanwhile, back in their village, their friends and family are looking over a list of the names of the missing (try and read the names-there's quite a few gags in there) and debating what to do when a little senorita mouse says that she can get Speedy Gonzales to come all the way down to rescue them. She calls him long distance and says she wants to see him and he runs from point A to point B while she's still on the line. He agrees to rescue their loved ones.
He begins by telling Sylvester what he's going to do and then proceeds to do just that-start rescuing the mice, while Sylvester tries unsuccessfully to stop him. The middle of the short is Speedy rescuing mice while painful things happen to Sylvester, the highlights (at least for the audience) include Sylvester being pulled through a knot-hole and losing all his fur and a boulder hammering Sylvester into the ground. There's also the old standby gimmick of Speedy (with an entire "trainload" of mice-and one straggler on a hand-car) going in Sylvester's mouth and popping out of his tail.
Speedy rescues their loved ones and gets his reward, which is a kiss from the lovely senorita mouse, with wild results! This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.
Sylvester is guarding the mice being held in an experimental laboratory and one of the opening scenes reads like the clichéd scenes in a jail house picture, complete with a mouse playing mournfully on harmonica-one half expects a little mouse dressed in priestly vestments consoling the next poor soul scheduled to walk the last mile. They wonder why no one on their village is trying to rescue them.
Meanwhile, back in their village, their friends and family are looking over a list of the names of the missing (try and read the names-there's quite a few gags in there) and debating what to do when a little senorita mouse says that she can get Speedy Gonzales to come all the way down to rescue them. She calls him long distance and says she wants to see him and he runs from point A to point B while she's still on the line. He agrees to rescue their loved ones.
He begins by telling Sylvester what he's going to do and then proceeds to do just that-start rescuing the mice, while Sylvester tries unsuccessfully to stop him. The middle of the short is Speedy rescuing mice while painful things happen to Sylvester, the highlights (at least for the audience) include Sylvester being pulled through a knot-hole and losing all his fur and a boulder hammering Sylvester into the ground. There's also the old standby gimmick of Speedy (with an entire "trainload" of mice-and one straggler on a hand-car) going in Sylvester's mouth and popping out of his tail.
Speedy rescues their loved ones and gets his reward, which is a kiss from the lovely senorita mouse, with wild results! This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.