The Truce Hurts
| The Truce Hurts | |
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| File:Trucehurtstitle.jpg
The reissue title card of The Truce Hurts
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Billy Bletcher |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Kenneth Muse Ed Barge Ray Patterson Irven Spence |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | July 17, 1948 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:59 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Kitty Foiled |
| Followed by | Old Rockin' Chair Tom |
The Truce Hurts is a 1947 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 35th Tom and Jerry short released. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on July 17, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. The title is a pun on the phrase "the truth hurts".
Plot
Jerry, Tom and Spike fight inside and outside a house until Spike stops and questions why they cannot be friends with each other. The trio make a truce, sign a peace treaty and become allies.
As the three of them sleep together, Tom covers Jerry up, Jerry closes Spike’s mouth to stop him snoring and Spike turns off the alarm clock to make breakfast. Spike pours three glasses of milk as Tom brushes Jerry's teeth. Jerry goes outside, but Butch, making a meal on a garbage can, picks Jerry up and puts him on the plate. Tom saves Jerry by flipping the can's lid into Butch's face. Tom then kisses Jerry, much to Butch's disbelief.
Tom then walks along the sidewalk until a dog eating a bone grabs Tom and goes to eat him. Spike saves Tom by knocking all off the teeth out of the dog and pokes an apple stuck in Tom's mouth into Tom's throat, saving him but knocking him out by accident.
The three then walk along the sidewalk, and Spike takes off his fur to help them walk across a muddy puddle, but a steak drops out of a meat truck driving by, much to the trio's delight. They take it home, but each of them greedily divides the steak so that they have the largest share, causing a fight that causes the steak to fly out of the window and drop into the water. Spike then tears the treaty and the trio continue to fight each other.
Production
- Directed by: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Animation: Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Tom Johnson, Frank Endres
- Story by: Larz Bourne, Tom Golden
- Backgrounds: Robert Little
- Sequence Director: Seymour Kneitel
- Music: Scott Bradley
- Produced by: Fred Quimby
Voice cast
- Billy Bletcher as Spike the bulldog (uncredited)
- William Hanna as Butch and Tom (screams)
Edited versions
The scene where the meat truck splatters mud all over Tom, Jerry and Spike, leaving them in blackface, is edited out of broadcasts on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and iTunes Store.[1]The uncut version is on disc one of Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 1 and disc two of Tom and Jerry Golden Collection.
References
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- The Truce Hurts at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Truce Hurts at IMDb
- ↑ "A Guide To Censored MGM Cartoons" at the Wayback Machine (archived February 5, 2007)
