A cat is chased through a door by a cleaver-wielding mouse. Acting on the advice of a parrot, he peruses a comic book and decides to model his actions against his foe on Superkatt. Dressed in a baby bonnet and diaper, he tries to squelch his enemy, to a notable lack of success.
Superkatt was the delusional comic book creation of Dan Gordon, a former Fleischer animator and this is his only movie appearance. Doubtless this was intended as the first of a series, but Columbia shifted to distributing UPA cartoons alone and it got no further. This effort is standard, if hyper-violent, and that violence may have acted against its success. The gags, as directed by Howard Swift, are well executed, but probably struck the first-time viewer as simply too weird.
Gordon's comic strip was moderately successful, but by the mid-fifties, with the decline of comic books and the decrying of their violence that led to the Comic Code Authority, Superkatt was done.
Superkatt was the delusional comic book creation of Dan Gordon, a former Fleischer animator and this is his only movie appearance. Doubtless this was intended as the first of a series, but Columbia shifted to distributing UPA cartoons alone and it got no further. This effort is standard, if hyper-violent, and that violence may have acted against its success. The gags, as directed by Howard Swift, are well executed, but probably struck the first-time viewer as simply too weird.
Gordon's comic strip was moderately successful, but by the mid-fifties, with the decline of comic books and the decrying of their violence that led to the Comic Code Authority, Superkatt was done.
