The Last Hungry Cat

The Last Hungry Cat
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	December 2, 1961
Starring	Mel Blanc June Foray Ben Frommer
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	John Dunn Dave Detiege
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Bob Matz Art Leonardi Lee Halpern
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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The Last Hungry Cat is the four hundred and seventy-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 2, 1961. It was written by John Dunn and Dave Detiege, produced by David H. DePatie, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Sylvester tries to catch Tweety at night. But when he thinks he already caught the bird, his conscious starts to inform him that by eating Tweety, he had committed murder.

Memorable Quotes

Narrator: In the words of the bard, "conscience makes cowards of us all..."
Sylvester: (off-screen) Ahhhhh, shaddap!
(Sylvester throws brick at the narrator, causing a lump to swell on his head)
Narrator: Good evening.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator	Ben Frommer
Granny	June Foray
Tweety Bird	Mel Blanc
Sylvester	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • City
      • Alleyways
      • Granny's residence
      • Abandoned apartment building

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 2, 1961 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on the 1959 film, The Last Angry Man.
• The cartoon is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series and contains a plot similar to the 1929 Alfred Hitchcock film Blackmail.
• This cartoon also uses some plot elements and animations from Birds Anonymous.
• This is one of the few shorts where Tweety does not say "I tawt I taw a putty tat!"

Everlasting influence

• The plot of this carton would be reused by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, for The Inspector short Cart Blanche.

Home availability

• Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3
• I Love Tweety: Volume 1
• Looney Tunes Super Stars: Tweety & Sylvester - Feline Fwenzy