Cannery Rodent
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| Cannery Rodent | |
| Tom and Jerry series | |
 Title card of Cannery Rodent |
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble (co-director) |
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| Animation by | Ben Washam Ken Harris Don Towsley Tom Ray Dick Thompson O.B. Barkley Bob Kirk |
| Music by | Dean Elliott |
| Produced by | Chuck Jones |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | 1967 |
| Format | Metrocolor, 6 min 28 secs |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Rock 'n' Rodent |
| Followed by | The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. |
| IMDb page | |
Cannery Rodent is a 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoon produced and directed by Chuck Jones. It was the final Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, and one of the very last of the theatrical Tom and Jerry cartoons to be released by MGM. The title, Cannery Rodent is a play-on-words of the John Steinbeck novel Cannery Row.
[edit] Plot
Tom chases Jerry onto a dock, and soon end up in a can factory, turning into cans during the opening credits. After they come out in cans (one reads "Tom" and the other reads "Jerry"), Tom cuts the top with his nail and releases himself. When Jerry sees Tom, he jumps and runs outside of the can factory, with Tom chasing him, making the fish cans spill everywhere. Jerry then finds a place to hide from Tom but he still manages to catch him, only to have his finger bitten by Jerry. Tom soon meets a shark and after Tom hits him with an oar, he sticks his tongue at him. He then catches Jerry but the shark comes back for Tom. After Tom after hits him with an oar again, he sticks his tongue at him, only to have the shark swallow him. Jerry sees that Tom is in trouble with the shark and pours pepper into the shark's mouth to make him sneeze. When the shark sneezes, he flys around the water, up a ramp, and right into the can factory, turning into a big can with "Shark" and his frowning picture on it. A halo appears around Jerry's head. Tom grabs him and pops Jerry's halo with devil horns that appear on his head. Jerry escapes and Tom falls back into the water. He sees a shark's fin after him once again; Jerry is shown swimming underwater with snorkeling gear, holding a stick with a shark's fin. Devil horns appear on his head as he smirks maliciously. The chase continues into the sunset as the film irises out.
[edit] Notes
It is the last Tom and Jerry short where the credits come before the title.
