Southbound Duckling
| Southbound Duckling | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
The title card of Southbound Duckling
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Red Coffee |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Irven Spence |
| Layouts by | Richard Bickenbach |
| Backgrounds by | Vera Ohman |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process | Technicolor, CinemaScope |
| Running time | 6:15 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Touché, Pussy Cat! |
| Followed by | Pup on a Picnic |
Southbound Duckling is the 90th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short. Released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1955, it was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Irven Spence with backgrounds by Vera Ohman and layouts by Richard Bickenbach.
This short is one of the select few in which Tom emerges victorious over Jerry.
Quacker, convinced that all ducks fly South for the winter, packs his suitcase, visits Jerry to tell him about his migration plans, and tries to leave, but the mouse stops him, showing Quacker a book on ducks to convince him that only wild ducks fly south, and domestic ducks like Quacker do not. Quacker, unconvinced, leaves, but quickly becomes out of breath running, and Jerry again shows his friend the book. Quacker refuses to give up, using a catapult, but flies straight into Tom's mouth.
Jerry pulls Quacker into a tree to evade Tom, who aims to capture Quacker for a duck recipe. Quacker then places himself onto a seesaw and uses an anvil to launch himself into the air, but he struggles and lands into a frying pan Tom sticks out of the window. Tom covers Quacker with egg and flour, but Jerry grabs Quacker with a spatula and pulls him towards his hole. The duck crashes into the wall, but Jerry hits Tom's hand with the spatula to recover him. Quacker then rides a rocket into the distance, but Tom swallows the rocket instead, and the cat rockets into a pool.
Quacker, after much pleading, persuades Jerry to keep helping him. The mouse inflates a balloon and the duck boards it, sending Quacker floating into the air, but Tom, with a shotgun, shoots the balloon. Tom tries to catch the duck with a net, but Jerry cuts the net. Carrying Quacker, the mouse and duck escape and board a plane to Miami, Florida, but Tom follows, clinging onto the plane's wheel. Finally, Quacker and Jerry are sunbathing on a Miami beach and glad to get rid of Tom, but Tom then appears behind them and traps them under a bucket. Quacker screams from beneath the bucket, wondering what is going on. Tom snickers evilly and pulls down a parasol to hide himself and the bucket, obviously planning to privately cause plenty of harm.
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