The alarm clock had to go.His very life depended on it." He offered further instructions - Babe was to sneak into the farmhouse, proceed through a kitchen and living room, and avoid disturbing the Hoggetts"" nasty, mean and favored cat Duchess (voice of Russie Taylor), and abscond with the threatening, job-stealing clock in the upstairs bedroom.The attractive couple are passionately kissing and breathing heavily - their raging hormones are symbolized by the flow of churning water over the falls behind them.By mid-1946 when the film was released, after awaiting he release of other war-themed films, FDR had been dead for a year.[The film, possessing a circular structure, ends with a pan moving in the reverse direction.] The camera slowly zooms in toward the third window on he side of a brick building where a half-full whiskey bottle hangs from a rope attached to the window crank.