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{{short description|1953 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name              = Catty Cornered
| image             = Catty Cornered still.png
| caption           = A still from ''Catty Cornered''.
| director          = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]]
| story             = [[Warren Foster]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |title=I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety |date=1991 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-1644-9 |page=117}}</ref>
| animator          = {{ubl|[[Arthur Davis (animator)|Arthur Davis]]|[[Manuel Perez (animator)|Manuel Perez]]|Ken Champin|[[Virgil Ross]]}}
| layout_artist     = [[Hawley Pratt]]
| background_artist = [[Irv Wyner]]
| starring          = [[Mel Blanc]]
| narrator          = [[Ralph James (actor)|Ralph James]] (uncredited)
| music             = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
| producer          = [[Edward Selzer]] (uncredited)
| distributor       = {{ubl|[[Warner Bros.]]|[[The Vitaphone Corporation]]}}
| released          = {{film date|1953|10|31}}
| color_process     = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime           = 7 minutes
| language          = English
}}

'''''Catty Cornered''''' is a 1953 [[Warner Bros.]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon directed by [[Friz Freleng]].<ref name=Beck>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=245}}</ref> The short was released on October 31, 1953, and stars [[Tweety]] and [[Sylvester the Cat|Sylvester]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/151 151]-152}}</ref> It features a forerunner of the [[Rocky and Mugsy]] duo.

==Plot==
Tweety, who is a rare and valuable bird, has been captured and held for ransom by a duo of criminals: Rocky and his assistant Nick. Sylvester, who is interested only in finding food to eat, makes a number of attempts to steal Tweety:
*Sylvester climbs up the fire escape, then edges along a ledge to the apartment. Rocky sees him and places a banana peel on the ledge, causing Sylvester to slip and fall off.
*Sylvester climbs up the main stairs. Tweety escapes and meets Sylvester on the landing. Tweety refuses Sylvester's offer to use his mouth as a hiding place (the cat tried to eat him; "Not so hard!"). Sylvester instead hides Tweety under a can just as the criminals arrive. Nick takes Sylvester inside for searching, while Rocky removes Tweety from under the can and replaces the bird with a [[firecracker]]. Sylvester escapes with the can, unaware of the firecracker, and is injured when it explodes.
*Sylvester hoists himself up using a pulley on a building site. He grabs Tweety and escapes, but the steel plate on the end of the pulley falls back down and lands on him.

Sylvester then gains access using a [[dumbwaiter]]. At the same time, police surround the building. Nick hides Tweety in the dumbwaiter, unaware that Sylvester is in there. Rocky is arrested (and likely Nick too). Sylvester escapes from the apartment block with Tweety and is quickly hailed as a hero by the press, who are unaware that he was only interested in eating the bird. Sylvester is forced to attend a celebration in which the mayor requests Sylvester to kiss Tweety, but he eats him, only to get forced to spit Tweety out by the mayor. Tweety ended the cartoon with "Oooh, he's a bad putty tat!"

Note: One of the broadcast stations at the celebration was [[KFWB]].

==Cast==
* [[Mel Blanc]] as [[Tweety]], [[Sylvester the Cat|Sylvester]], Rocky, Nick, Paperboy, News Reporter, Police Officer, Photographer and Mayor.
* [[Ralph James (actor)|Ralph James]] as Narrator.

==Clip reusage==
Part of this cartoon was edited into ''[[The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie]]'' (1981), with new animation showing Bugs Bunny giving Sylvester a badge.

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb title|45612}}

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[[Category:Merrie Melodies short films]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films]]
[[Category:Short films directed by Friz Freleng]]
[[Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling]]
[[Category:1950s Warner Bros. animated short films]]
[[Category:Tweety films]]
[[Category:Sylvester the Cat films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:American animated short films]]
[[Category:Rocky and Mugsy films]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Warren Foster]]
[[Category:Films produced by Edward Selzer]]
[[Category:English-language short films]]
[[Category:1953 animated short films]]


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