"The Million Dollar Cat" is an American cartoon from 1944, so this one was released during the days of WWII, and this means it has its 75th anniversary next year. It is a Hanna Barbera production and yes you guess correctly that here we got another Tom & Jerry cartoon and like the others it runs for 7 minutes, slightly under, and even without an Oscar nomination or even win, this is still today among the more, maybe even most, known starring the world's most famous cat-and-mouse duo. Tom for once is the master of the house this time having sent mail to him even and he inherits a huge sum of money under the premise that he can never harm Jerry (or any other living creature) again. I must say as a consequence Jerry is an unlikable nuisance really in here and is just annoying for the rest of the film. Luckily, Tom's instincts prevail eventually and I am happy he's happy, even if it is still somewhat strange to hear him talk. By the way, Bill Hanna voiced Tom himself there. Overall, an okay little cartoon, one of the better T&J cartoons I'd say, but not one of the best. See it if you like old animation.

The Million Dollar Cat (1944) *** 1/2 (out of 4) One of the classics in the series, Tom receives a telegram telling him that he's inherited a million dollars but he can only keep it as long as he doesn't hurt anything. Including a mouse. Tom heads to New York City where he's living it up but it doesn't take long for Jerry to show up and begin tormenting him. THE MILLION DOLLAR CAT is the one episode where I can say I really, really hated Jerry. I mean, he's just so vicious and cruel to Tom here that you can't help but hope something happens to him so that Tom can enjoy his life and money. This film features a lot of very funny moments but of course it's all building up to whether or not Tom flips out and gives up on the money. Very fast, very fun and certainly one of the best.

This is absolutely one of my favorite Tom & Jerry Short! It Starts when Tom is playing dart and jerry is in the goal-table, Tom receive a telegram saying that his masters aunt has left 1 million dollars to Tom, he screams out his happiness and Jerry is wondering why he is so happy, then he goes and read the letter and it says that if Tom hurts a living thing, he loses all his money.. Tom moves to Park Ave and of course Jerry follows him to his new place, and torment him all the time by eating Tom's food, throwing him out the bed, using the shower all the morning knowing that Tom can do nothing to stop him..The next morning Tom is waiting to enter the Bathroom but jerry is in there and he opens the door and take Tom's towel and closes the door and Tom is trying to open the door but fails, He begins to think how he can get rid of Jerry and gets an idea! He writes a paper where it says ''Fire Exit'' and put it in the window and he starts a little Fire and Jerry jumps down the skyscraper and Tom is so happy and go to eat his breakfast but then to his surprise Jerry appears with the cutlery and eat up all Tom's food, throwing food at him and degrade him, Tom get's Furious and tear the Telegram apart and press the teared paper in Jerry's Mouth and screams in anger and destroy the whole table and gets enraged against Jerry and he speaks too! ''Im throwing away a million dollars.. But I'm Still happy!'' And so it ends...Enormously funny entertainment! If you haven't seen it i strongly recommend it!My Grade: A+

Tom the cat stands to inherit a cool million dollars even on the stipulation that he can't harm one single living thing even a mouse. So of course Jerry the mouse has a field day with this news and torments Tom unmercifully, but you can only push a cat so far. This is a humorous cartoon. Tom speaks in this one, but it's not as grating as it was in the "Zoot Cat" short so I didn't mind quite as much. While it's not one of Tom and Jerry's best if you like these type of animated shorts, you could really do worse than this one. This cartoon can be found on disc one of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry" My Grade: B+