Peter-No-Tail in Americat

Peter-No-Tail in Americat (Swedish: Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt) is a 1985 Swedish animation based on stories about the tail-less cat Pelle Svanslös by Gösta Knutsson. The cartoon is a sequel to the 1981 cartoon Peter-No-Tail, and is known in Sweden for its extremely surreal content.

Peter-No-Tail in Americat (Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt)
Swedish cover.
Directed by	Stig Lasseby Jan Gissberg
Written by	Story: Leif Krantz
Production companies	Kratky Film Praha Studio Bratri v Triku
Release date	14 December 1985 (1985-12-14) (Sweden)
Running time	78 min.
Countries	Sweden Czechoslovakia
Language	Swedish

Plot

Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat without a tail, being bit off by a rat when he was a kitten. He compensates for this by studying hard, and much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a high university degree that few cats in the university town of Uppsala, Sweden, have obtained. In the movie, he is visited by his American relative Pelle Swanson, who invites him to visit his new home country, the United States, in the movie called Americat. There everything is bigger; even the rats are much fatter.

The movie is mainly about what happens to someone from another country who is not used to the life in a big city. Nevertheless, Peter-No-Tail is still a kindhearted cat to everyone, even if the other cats are not nice to him. Everything seems possible in America, even the prospect of finally having a proper tail and a sweetheart to call one's own.

The movie has many surreal elements, as when Peter encounters large ghetto-rats that try to eat him, the famous church of Uppsala turning into a huge cat, and a Native American cat that uses magic to give him a long, golden tail, earning him the nickname of "Peter Gold-Tail."

Cast

Character	Original	United Kingdom	United States
Peter No-Tail	Erik Lindgren	Susan Sheridan	Cam Clarke
Mans/Max	Ernst-Hugo Järegård	Jeff Harding	Bill Capizzi
Maja/Maya Silknose/Molly Creamnose	Ewa Fröling	Siân Rivers	unknown
Bull	Björn Gustafsson	Neill Conrich	Bill Capizzi
Bill	Carl Billquist	Jonathan Keeble	Robert Axelrod
Rat	Eddie Axberg	unknown	Tom Wyner
The gold from Arcadia	Lena-Pia Bernhardsson	unknown
Richard from Rickomberga	Nils Eklund	unknown
Laban from the Observatory Garden	Charlie Elvegård	unknown
Murre from Skogstibble	Åke Lagergren	unknown
Frida	Gunilla Norling	unknown
Lynxen/Old Bearcat	Jan Nygren	William Roberts	Mike Reynolds
Old Mayan	Agneta Prytz	unknown
Philadelphia Philly	Mille Schmidt	Stephen Lyons	Robert Axelrod
Peter Longtail	Stellan Skarsgård	unknown

External links

• Peter-No-Tail in America at IMDb
• Pelle Svanslos I Amerikatt at AllMovie