The Vanishing Duck (1958)

Thanks for the memories!

Great Film overall

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"The Vanishing Duck" is a cartoon starring Tom & Jerry from the later days of the duo and the two are joined by a little cute duckling here. He (and Jerry) use vanishing cream in order to pull pranks on Tom. But as an exception to the rule, Tom has the last laugh this time. The film runs for slightly under 7 minutes as they usually do and is from almost 60 years ago already. The duck was sometimes difficult to understand, but cuteness prevails and that's why he appeared on several occasions in these cartoons, always voiced by Red Coffey. The voice acting here is clearly inspired by the Disney ducks. I thought this was an okay film, not the best or worst I have seen from the famous cat&mouse duo. Overall I give this one a thumbs-up. Worth checking out for cartoon lovers. Good morning, good morning. Good morning to you.

The Vanishing Duck is not a masterpiece, nor was I was expecting it to be. The animation quality is not as good as before, Tom and Jerry have been drawn much better, the backgrounds are not as smooth and there were some I feel overly-bright colours. The story has a very similar scenario to The Invisible Mouse, though not as inspired or funny. However there is much to like as is mostly the case with Tom and Jerry(I say mostly because after 1958 the output wasn't a patch on their earlier cartoons). The music is very catchy and zesty with some beautiful and dynamic orchestration. The gags are fun and clever, and delivered in a brisk fashion. Tom and Jerry are likable, Tom being the butt of the violence but becoming more vengeful later and Jerry as cute and cunning as ever. Little Quacker is very endearing. All in all, not masterpiece Tom and Jerry but entertaining Tom and Jerry all the same, which is still fine for me. 8/10 Bethany Cox

What a chaotic world this would be if "vanishing cream" was literally that, and enabled one to totally "disappear." It does in this Tom and Jerry cartoon as the little yellow duck "Quackers" discovers after being delivered as a gift by George to his wife Joan. They are the owners of the house in which Tom and Jerry live. George takes Joan out for dinner and a show and thinks the bird is safe from the cat, who is locked out of the house. But Tom has a secret entrance and soon, Quackers is in trouble....until he discovers the cream and lets Jerry in on the ruse. From that point, they brutalize Tom, until the very end when Tom gets wise. Tom gets a little revenge on his own. Thus, everyone "gets in their licks" in this one, which should please most fans of this animated series.

George, Tom's owner, gets his wife Joan a birthday gift in the shape of the little duckling that first made an appearance in Little Quacker (1950) and had appeared in six other cartoons. Tom spots the duckling and tries to catch him, but then the little feathered one teams up with Jerry and the two have some fun at Tom's expense, courtesy of some vanishing cream that they use to make themselves invisible.This story could be seen as a successor to The Invisible Mouse (1947), although it is not as funny, not least of which because the cuts that animation departments were forced to make at this time caused the schematic backgrounds and less-attractive colours, not to mention the fact that most of the animators just could not draw Tom and Jerry as well as one that had been very experienced in it -- Kenneth Muse, who had been animating them from as far back as 1941 in The Night Before Christmas (when Tom was very hairy!) -- so it is pretty clear what had been drawn by him and what had not.The Vanishing Duck was also the last of the Tom & Jerry series to feature the duckling.