''The Night Watchman'' is a 1938 Warner Bros. ''

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'' cartoon directed by

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. The short was released on November 19, 1938. This short is the first film directed by Chuck Jones after he was promoted from an animator (where he was under Fred Avery and Robert Clampett's units).

Plot

A feline watchman gets sick, so his kitten son is enlisted to watch the kitchen. When the gangland-style rats find out that he is the one on duty, they try to take over.

Home media

''The Night Watchman'' is available with its original opening and ending titles restored on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 Disc 4.

Voice cast

Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy r ...

as Hoodlum Rats, Tommy Cat (when he screams to the rats to quiet down) *Margaret Hill-Talbot as Tommy Cat *The Sportsmen as the singing rat quartet

References

External links

* 1938 animated films Merrie Melodies short films Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Short films directed by Chuck Jones 1938 films Vitaphone short films Films scored by Carl Stalling Animated films about cats Films about mice and rats Night in culture 1930s Warner Bros. animated short films 1930s English-language films {{MerrieMelodies-stub