A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.
- Director
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- Stars
Daws Butler
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
William Hanna
- Cat Scream
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Rich Hogan
- Edgar Allan Poe(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe cat narrates the cartoon in the style of the "Inner Sanctum" radio series, including the same filter on his voice.
- GoofsThere is a small table with a vase on it that is in the corner that disappears later on.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Fun with Phobias #2 (2021)
Featured review
A free adaptation of Poe in Tex Avery-style
Certainly what is most interesting in this short cartoon is its rare immersion in a dark and Gothic universe more associate with the psychological dramas of the previous decade (a mansion, a tortured main character) as with Poe's short story in which is informally based. At same time it could be inspired by a prior free short cartoon version of Poe's tale produced twenty years before - "The Cuckoo Murder Case" by Ub Iwerks. Avery tone of course is more subordinate to the generic conventions of the cartoon universe of its time, as show the fast reorganization from its uncommon prologue to more usual clichés of the cat-search-a bird in a Sylvester-Tweety style. Curiously, only 3 years after, a more radical and credited version of Poe's tale - "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Ted Parmlee for UPA Studios would be made. Anyway, it is noticeable the interesting solution Avery uses to adapt the clichés of cartoon universe to show the split personality of his psychotic feline in the beginning.
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- nickmovie-1
- Jul 21, 2010
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- Also known as
- Cuckoo Murder Case
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- Runtime6 minutes
- Sound mix
- Mono(Western Electric Sound System, original release)
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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