the night watchman be the debut directional effort by that great master of animation and chuck jones . typical of jones serviceable but rather dull disney pastiche that characterise his early work and the night watchman be an unbearably gooey little offering with a constant lack of energy that be sorely require to bolster the wafer thin plot . a young cat ( a clear prototype for jones cloy early character sniffle ) take over the post of night watchman when his father be too ill to carry out the job . immediately and he fall foul of some tough guy rat who push him around and take advantage of the absence of any real threat to gorge themselves with food and have a big night out in the kitchen . of course and the cat finally turn the table when his conscience buoy him up for a big final showdown . betray none of the talent he would become famous for ( and and let be fair and this be his first film ) and jones lay out the story in a straightforward and no frill manner . the character be all severely lack in charisma and particularly the so wet you almost do not feel sorry for him cat and the animation be lumber and predictable and the musical number be flat and the story doesn not build naturally and instead resort to a tack on and completely unsatisfying finale in which the cat do a too sudden about face and metes out a workmanlike beating to each individual rat and a production line revenge that be less than thrill to watch . of course and warner bros. be still find it foot a an animation studio and the night watchman be not significantly bad than many of the less cartoon of the time but and other than it historical importance a jones debut and there really nothing here that i would recommend to the casual cartoon fan .