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wrecker", where a house is destroyed, often figuratively, by a single person. "Mouse Wreckers" was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for 1948, but lost to "The Little Orphan", a Tom and Jerry cartoon which was the fifth Oscar (of seven) given to the cat and mouse team.
The cartoon was loosely remade as "Gopher Broke" in 1958, and later as the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon "The Year of the Mouse" in 1965 (also
The Year of the Mouse
The Year of the Mouse is a Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1965, directed and produced by Chuck Jones, with animation by Dick Thompson, Ben Washam, Don Towsley, and Ken Harris. The cartoon itself is a revamped remake of Chuck Jones's earlier Warner Bros. Looney Tunes 1949 Oscar Nominated short "Mouse Wreckers", featuring Claude Cat and mouse duo Hubie and Bertie.
The cartoon is one of the very few shorts in which Tom emerges victorious over Jerry (albeit the tables