Robert Reynolds
This is a cartoon in the Mighty Mouse series produced by Terrytoons. There will be spoilers ahead: This is a typical Mighty Mouse cartoon. It works because the details on the edges work fairly well.Mighty Mouse is dueling with Oil-Can Harry and Harry's getting the worst of things. The narrator tells about a storm brewing outside, partly to set up a couple of sight gags and partly to set up a lightning bolt which pins Mighty Mouse to a tree, allowing Harry to escape and setting up the rest of the short.Pearl Pureheart, called Nell here for reasons which will become obvious at the end of the cartoon, is flying to the South Pole to get seal skins for a new coat. Harry follows her by using just about every conveyance available for the environment-a whale as a taxi, a dog sled and a kayak. The gags here are fairly good.Nell finds the seals and sings to them, offering to but their coats for fish. Harry catches up here and makes his intentions known. Nell hits him with a fish and runs, singing for Mighty Mouse to rescue her. Mighty Mouse breaks free, fights Harry while Nell goes through more peril, with some nice bits until the fight and dovetail together. The ending is as cute as it's predictable.This short is worth watching.
