Bad Day at Cat Rock
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Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height, and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.
★★★☆☆
Curator’s rating
From the Chuck Jones period, when the series was handed to the director who had made Wile E. Coyote — and it shows. The construction-site setting, the enormous drops and the deadpan pauses are pure Jones, and Tom is played much closer to the Coyote than to the cat Hanna and Barbera made. Purists dislike these; on their own terms several of them are very well made.
Extended falls from great heights, in the exaggerated Chuck Jones style.