Review of Kit for Cat

Kit for Cat (1948)
"Please save a frostbitten feline from a frozen fate!"
29 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
"Kit for Cat" is a very good Sylvester/Elmer Fudd cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. Elmer has to choose whether to keep Sylvester or a much prettier little kitten inside his warm house on a chilly evening. So the two cats do everything possible to get each other in trouble!

Highlights: Sylvester purposefully breaks Elmer's dishes in order to throw the blame on the kitten, but Elmer catches Sylvester in the act and warns him, "You're making it vewy much easier for me to make up my mind which one of you to keep!" Sylvester calls the kitten in his hilariously slobbering voice and pours milk on his head, after which he crashes the milk bottle and again tries to throw the blame on the poor little kitten; Elmer reacts by merely overfeeding the kitten with milk, cheese, hamburger, salami, bologna, etc. The kitten removes the nails from a light fixture above Elmer's head while he is sleeping; Sylvester tries to prevent the light fixture from crashing down onto Elmer's bald head, but he arrives just a second too late, and of course, Elmer angrily blames Sylvester! And for the final clamorous gag that causes Elmer's eviction, the kitten activates a player piano and turns on the radio, in which we hear the great Mel Blanc's sinister voice portraying a villain.

In closing, here are my favorite musical moments from "Kit for Cat." Carl Stalling orchestrates a nice vibraphone melody (the title of which I do not know) during the scene of the kitten playing with a ball of yarn. And "Mommy's Little Baby Loves Shortening Bread" opens and closes this cartoon as the two cats (and eventually Elmer) search for food.
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