When Ignatz Mouse throws the brick at the Smelly Skunk and cashing him..

George Herriman
United States

Somewhere between a heat-stroke hallucination and a vaudeville pratfall lies Kats Is Kats, a 1920 one-reeler that should have crumbled into nitrate dust but instead lingers like a chili-pepper ghost on the back of the tongue. Gregory La Cava—later the sardonic mind behind Stage Door—directs this Herriman adaptation a...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava
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" Somewhere between a heat-stroke hallucination and a vaudeville pratfall lies Kats Is Kats, a 1920 one-reeler that should have crumbled into nitrate dust but instead lingers like a chili-pepper ghost on the back of the tongue. Gregory La Cava—later the sardonic mind behind Stage Door—directs this Herriman adaptation as though he’s juggling nitroglycerin inside a kaleidoscope. The result is a film that refuses to behave: it hiccups, moonwalks, and sets fire to its own continuity, daring you to c..."
Comedy, Animation, Short

