Danger Mice

Mice are destroying the home belonging to the most casual farmer in the world in Van Beuren’s Barnyard Bunk (1932). The mice are kind enough to post “Danger” sings before they knock down things. And the farmer doesn’t care. He barely moves pulling off a boot and letting a mouse fall out, then pulling off his hat to let a duck fall out.



This has the usual odd Van Beuren nonsense, such as a skeleton in an outhouse and a dancing wheelbarrow. John Foster and George Rufle get the “by” credit. Gene Rodemich opens the score with “I Want To Go Back To Michigan,” an Irving Berlin composition. Billy Murray sang it on the Edison label. Hear Judy Garland’s version below, verse included. (“Wabash Blues” is heard for several minutes after Tom and Jerry enter with their saxophones).