The Field Mouse

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A little mouse and his grandfather are stuck inside a farm tractor.A little mouse and his grandfather are stuck inside a farm tractor.A little mouse and his grandfather are stuck inside a farm tractor.

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6.5/10

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Mel Blanc

Grandpa
(voice)
(uncredited)

St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers

Fieldmice Chorus
(uncredited)

Frank Elmquist

Herman
(uncredited)

Martha Wentworth

Herman's Mother
(uncredited)

Director
- Hugh Harman
Writer
- David Lang
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Quotes
singing mice: [singing as they work in the field] Wheat makes flour; / flour makes dough. / This is true, it's really so - so / sew! / Wheat makes flour; flour makes dough - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
[Grandpa mouse]
singing mice: Can't get cheese from trees you know / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
[solo mouse]
singing mice: If you say 'well, I don't give a darn', /
[all mice]
singing mice: you'll be hungry with a hen-pecked farm. / This is true, it's really so - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew. /
[instrumental break]
singing mice: / If you say 'well, I don't give a darn', / you'll be hungry with a hen-pecked farm. / This is true, it's really so - / so sew what you reap and reap what you sew.

Soundtracks
Reap What You Sow
(uncredited)
Lyrics and Music by Baron Keyes
Sung by the field mice in the beginning and end

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Featured review

6/10

Grandpa Is Pretty Spry With That Gouty Foot

When the combine harvester comes by the wheat field, the family of mice pack up and move, except for grandpa and Herman, who get trapped by the machinery.

It's a pretty good cartoon from Hugh Harman. True it has the simplistic attitude that children are good-natured idiots that fill me with exasperated bafflement, but in terms of the mechanics of cartoon making, it's pretty near the peak of the the field, with lovely designs and lush, rich colors; the fields and grain are literally golden.

As for the rest of it, I am interested in the fact that the young mouse is named Herman. This couldn't be the Herman the Mouse who starred in Famous Studios cartoons a decade later, could it?