The Glittering Jewels is a 1959 Felix the Cat cartoon and the 19th episode of the Felix the Cat (Joe Oriolo) series.
Felix is strolling along when he comes across the Royal Museum, which is displaying the royal crown jewels, worth 1,000,000.05$ total. Felix spots Rock Bottom nearby, disguised as a child and dragging a wooden horse behind him, and immediately deduces he's up to no good. Rock goes inside the museum and places the horse near the jewels, whispering to it to get the jewels while he keeps the nearby guard busy. Professor then pops out of the horse and starts fishing for the jewels with a rod. Felix spots them and grabs the rod, and Professor pulls it away, which snags the guards rifle and fling it around—Felix grabs it and accidentally sets it off, blowing up Professor's horse disguise and forcing him and Rock to flee. They head off to a local library to figure out another plan to steal the jewels. They find a book and read a page about Ravens, which are said to steal anything that glitters and leave a bright object in its place. At the museum, Felix hides out at a sign, and sees Rock disguised as a gentleman, with a raven by his side. The raven immediately tries to grab the jewels, but Rock stops him, saying he's just showing the bird what to get later. Rock and the bird head off, with Felix watching while disguised as a table with a flowerpot on it. Outside, Rock starts drawing arrows on the buildings to help guide the raven and its brethren to the museum, with Felix trailing behind him. Felix follows him to a door and tries to peek inside, but the door rotates around, revealing that Rock was aware Felix was following him. Rock immediately puts Felix in a sack, and Professor ties it up.
Professor and Rock waste no time, unleashing a flock of Ravens equipped with marbles, who fly across the city and right into the museum, where they effortlessly steal the jewels, replace them with the marbles, and fly back to Professor and Rock's hideout. Rock puts the jewels in a bag and ties it up, throwing it near the bag Felix is tied up in. Felix, still trapped, swaps out the jewel bag with his own. Professor announces his plan to take Felix to the museum and drop him down its chimney, hoping to frame him for stealing the jewels. Rock accidentally grabs the bag with the jewels in it and ties it up more, and Rock drops off the bag through the chimney at the museum with the help of a rope and Professor on the roof—however, the bag spills open inside of it, revealing the jewels inside of it, much to Rock's fear, who opens up the other bag and finds Felix inside, who tells Rock "The jewels are where they belong, and you belong in jail!" Rock calls for Professor and pulls him down by the rope, which sends him falling into a sewer grate Rock was standing on, sending the scientist into the sewers while Rock soars through the air and falls through the chimney and lands right inside the museum. Rock tries to escape via rope, but just pulls Professor out of the sewer and inside with him. Forced to face their failure, the duo give up right there and are presumably arrested afterward. Felix, watching from outside, laughs as the cartoon irises out.
Tropes:
- Does Not Know His Own Strength: When Professor announces the plan to use the ravens to steal the jewels, Rock eagerly hoists him into the air, which unwittingly sends him flying up and smashes his head through the ceiling.
- Frame-Up: Professor plans to pull this on Felix, tying him up in a sack and leaving him behind at the museum so police will think he stole the jewels.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Even though their theft was already foiled by Felix, Rock just digs himself deeper by accidentally getting himself and Professor inside of the museum, which we can assume gets them caught for their crime.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Parodied at the end, when Professor and Rock are forced to face their failure, and assume the classic pose as they say "See no evil, think no evil!"
