Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: September 2, 1939
Stars: Sniffles
Rating: ★★★½
Review:
‘Little Brother Rat’ is the second cartoon featuring that cute little mouse Sniffles.
In this short Sniffles has to perform tasks at a party. The cartoon opens with Sniffles plucking a whisker from a cat. His second task is stealing an owl’s egg. The egg soon hatches into a little, far from life-like baby owl. The owl appears to be a precursor of the Minah-Bird, Jones’s famous dimension-defying bird, or even Droopy in ‘Northwest Hounded Police‘, as it is as capable of being in unexpected places.
‘Little Brother Rat’ is far from funny, but the night scenes are very beautiful, and Carl Stalling’s score is excellent.
Watch ‘Little Brother Rat’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Little Brother Rat’ is available on the Blu-Ray set ‘Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection’
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August 28, 2018 at 23:34
SJC
The little owl would reappear in the cartoon that you’ve just reviewed, “The Egg Collector” (194)), starring that most beloved mouse: SNIFFLES!
May 25, 2018 at 17:48
mistermuse
Warner Brothers’ main purpose for this cartoon’s title was apparently to take advantage of the public’s awareness of their 1938 film BROTHER RAT starring Ronald Reagan, among others. The cartoon’s opening song, DEEP IN A DREAM, was also popular in 1938:
May 27, 2018 at 18:05
Gijs Grob
Thanks for the information, MisterMuse!!!