The Great Cheese Robbery

The Great Cheese Robbery is a silent short animated film made by Bray Productions featuring Krazy Kat. It marks the first Krazy film produced by Bray after the International Film Service (IFS) ended its run in making films in the series.

Plot[]

One evening, Krazy is sitting in front of an open old oil barrel at a sidewalk. He next reads a newspaper about someone stealing cheese from stores. Momentarily, a rat wearing a black eye mask passes by. This catches the attention of Krazy who follows the rodent.

The masked rat arrives at a cheese store. Although there is an emu cop at the scene, that law enforcer is in a snooze, having a head in a hole in the ground. Because the store is closed, the rat sneaks in through the bars of a small ground level window. Krazy also enters, going through an elevated window. The rat reaches the store's inventory, and eats an entire cheese wheel. The rat takes another cheese wheel, and puts it in his bag. The rat flees the place, never to be seen again. Krazy tries to enter the inventory by pounding the door which makes so much noise that emu cop is awaken. The emu cop goes into the store through the elevated window. Krazy figures another way to the inventory by squeezing under the door. The emu cop walks through door, and finds Krazy. Believing Krazy is the serial thief, the emu cop clubs and arrests the cat.

Later in the sunrise, the scene is set in the house of a ferret. The ferret, after consuming some cake, is reading a newspaper about the alleged cheese thief being in custody but can be bailed. He at first takes delight of the news until his conscience gets the better of him. His conscience come in the form of hallucinations where he sees the things in his home (newspaper, blanket, pillow, fish in the bowl, even his cake) turn into monsters urging him to help the one in custody. The ferret finally gives in to his nightmare as he takes a sack of cash from under a floor before going out.

The ferret heads to the courthouse where the suspected cheese thief is being held. In the court, the ferret presents his sack of cash, and asks the judge to bail the suspect. The judge accepts the ferret's bail request, and orders an associate, who turns out to be the emu cop, to release the suspect. To the ferret's surprise, the suspect he bails is Krazy Kat who is an acquaintance of his.

Alternate ending[]

In a short version of the film called Rescued by a Guilty Conscience which was distributed by a company called Keystone for their toy projectors, there is an alternate ending. In it, Krazy, upon being bailed, suddenly becomes more insane than usual as he starts seeing a ghostly marsupial in wings as a result of being held in custody for many hours. As an act of generosity, the ferret hurls the sack of cash at Krazy to snap the cat out of it.

Home media[]

The short film was also released in 2004 in a DVD video compilation called George Herriman's Kinomatic Krazy Kat Kartoon Klassics.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• The Great Cheese Robbery at the Big Cartoon Database