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Looney Tunes - The Spotlight Collection Vol. 1 (Premiere Edition)
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Directed By: Abe Levitow, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett, Robert McKimson
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Theatrical Release: September 17, 1955
Average Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Stan Freberg, June Foray, Bea Benaderet
They're the clown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 28 of the very best animated shorts starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection! Just barely contained in two special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented animation celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark cartoon classic after another, there's Bugs Bunny's monstrously merry encounter with the tennis-shoe clad creature of Hair-Raising Hare. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner racing to cartoon immortality in Fast and Furryous. Oscar?-winning animated gems, scenery-chewing Tazmanian Devils and much more! Plus, a dazzling array of totally Looney DVD bonus features!
User Submitted Looney Tunes - The Spotlight Collection Vol. 1 (Premiere Edition) Reviews
November 27, 2008
All 28 Listed Here - You be the Judge
Disc One:
"Elmer's Candid Camera" (1940)--Elmer Fudd's out to shoot a wabbit--this time, with a camera. Unluckily for him, his subject is Bugs Bunny.
"Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" (1944)--Goldilocks is nowhere to be found, but the Three Bears think Bugs is just right--to eat. Bugs, however, has other plans for the hapless trio.
"Fast and Furry-ous" (1949)--Accelerati Incredibulis meets Carnivarious Vulgaris on a desert highway. Carnivarious Vulgaris attempts to capture Accelerati Incredibulis. Final Score: Accelerati 1, Carnivarious 0, despite the latter's use of several fine Acme products.
"Hair-Raising Hare" (1946)--Bugs finds that monsters really do live such in-teresting lives.
"The Awful Orphan" (1949)--In this precursor to Single White Female, a persistent mutt shows Porky why dogs are man's best friend. Problem is, Porky's a pig.
"Haredevil Hare" (1948)--Decades before Neil Armstrong went to the Moon, a brave rabbit made one giant hop for mankind. Unfortunately, Marvin the Martian was waiting for him, with an Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
"For Scent-imental Reasons" (1949)--This Oscar-winning short has "ze locksmith of love," Pepe LePew, pursuing a reluctant pussycat. "Do not come wiz me to ze Casbah," Pepe tells her. "We shall make beautiful musicks togezzer right here!" Pussycat is unimpressed.
"Frigid Hare" (1949)--Bugs takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up at the South Pole, pursued by an Eskimo. (Since there are no Eskimos at the South Pole, Bugs really made a wrong turn.) Bugs whips out the lipstick, and transsexual antics ensue.
"The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950)--Hubie and Bertie the mice force Claude the hypochondriac cat to confront his inner demons--and angels.
"Baton Bunny" (1959)--Warner Brothers Symphony guest conductor Bugs Bunny conducts "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" by Franz Von Suppe to an overly appreciative insectile audience.
"Feed the Kitty" (1952)--In what may be the greatest Looney Tunes cartoon ever made, ferocious bulldog Marc Anthony is reduced to a big ol' softie by a cute kitten. (The gut-wrenching "cookie" scene was later paid homage in Monsters, Inc.)
"Don't Give Up the Sheep" (1953)--Neither wind nor rain nor Wile E. Coyote look-a-like Ralph the Wolf shall keep dutiful employee Sam Sheepdog from protecting his flock.
"Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (1942)--Bugs is targeted for carrion-ization by a family of buzzards.
"Tortoise Wins By a Hare" (1943)--In one of the rare instances in which Bugs loses, Cecil, the Lance Armstrong of racing tortoises, keeps outracing Bugs, who resorts to dressing up as an old man to pry Cecil's secrets out of his shell. The secret? "Streamlining."
Disc Two:
"Canary Row" (1950)--Tweety Bird suspects he may have spotted a feline. This suspicion is shortly (and repeatedly) confirmed, prompting Tweety to declare that he did, in fact, see a putty-tat.
"Bunker Hill Bunny" (1950)--In this gripping account of one of the Revolutionary War's lesser-known battles, Bugs Bunny defends Fort Bagel Heights against "Hessian oppression" in the form of Yosemite Sam. True to historical record, Sam is soon rendered a "Hessian without no aggression," prompting him to join forces with his erstwhile enemy.
"Kit For Cat" (1948)--On a frigid evening, homeless tomcat Sylvester finds refuge with mansion-and-yacht owner Elmer Fudd. Unfortunately, a cute orange kitty also seeks shelter in the Fudd residence. There can be only one.
"Putty Tat Trouble" (1951)--One white Chwistmas, a hungry orange feline intrudes upon Sylvester and Tweety's twisted co-dependent relationship.
"Bugs and Thugs" (1954)--When pampered urbanite Bugs Bunny gets mixed up with criminal masterminds Rocky and Mugsy, the talkative rabbit is forced, not only to shut up, but to "shut up shuttin' up."
"Canned Feud" (1951)--If Alfred Hitchcock directed a cartoon version of Home Alone, it might look something like this. Sylvester, left behind in a house full of canned food and no can opener, inexorably descends into madness and horror, aided by a sadistic mouse.
"Lumber Jerks" (1955)--The ambiguously gay gopher duo go looking for their missing tree. What they find instead is some fabulous home furnishings.
"Speedy Gonzalez" (1955)--The fastest mouse in all Mexico makes his debut in this Oscar-winning short, a class warfare allegory in which cheese factory owner-slash-capitalist oppressor Sylvester tries to keep the working mouse down.
"Tweety's S.O.S." (1951)--Tweety once again sees a bad ol' putty-tat, this time on a cruise ship. The result? Pain, exciting and new.
"The Foghorn Leghorn" (1948)--Henery the rising young chicken hawk is determined to bag himself a chicken--even if it is a loudmouthed Schnook.
"Daffy Duck Hunt" (1949)--A mentally unstable Daffy Duck power-dives his way into duck hunter Porky Pig's life, driving a wedge between him and his dog, and spraying them both with copious amounts of thpittle in the process.
"Early to Bet" (1951)--The Gambling Bug gets more than he bargained for when he nibbles on a cat, and stumbles into a weird sadomasochistic relationship between cat and bulldog involving gin rummy and a Penalty Wheel. David Lynch couldn't come up with material this kinky.
"Broken Leghorn" (1959)--Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, Foghorn Leghorn slips childless old Prissy Hen a fertile egg--inadvertently laying the seeds of his own destruction when the egg hatches his successor.
"Devil May Hare" (1954)--In his first appearance, the Tasmanian Devil is on the loose--with an appetite for tigers, lions, elephants, buffaloes, donkeys, giraffes, octopuses, rhinoceroses, moose, ducks...and rabbits. A nonplussed Bugs proceeds to bury Taz in the cold, cold ground.
October 3, 2008
Happy Customer
This Item is a Christmas present for my dad, so I haven't watched it. I'm happy about the condititon that it came in though. It looks to me like it came right off the shelf from Walmart or a video store. Thank you for everything.
August 22, 2008
cartoons I grew up with
Looney Tunes are great,,re-production on to disc was perfect...sit back and enjoy your childhood,,get your grandkids to sit down with you and have a great Saturday morning, better then anything on TV....Bert
March 24, 2008
Hold out for the Golden Collection!
Several reviewers have warned against buying the Spotlight Collection...and I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Please do not buy this collection; all 28 cartoons here are featured in the Golden Collection, Vol. 1, which also features gems from the 50's.
Hold out for the Goldens!
March 15, 2008
fun for all ages
These cartoons are classics. They have inspired generations of your people. They are nostalgic for adults and entertaining for children. Plus, they employ various types of classical music to stimulate a young mind.
February 9, 2008
Great DVD set
This DVD collection is awesome. I am a big Looney Tunes fan and this collection encompasses many cartoons from bugs bunny to speedy gonzales. I recommend this product if you are a Looney Tunes fan.
January 28, 2008
Love Looney Tunes....
I opted for these series of Looney Tunes, as the price tag fit my budget. I'm sure the Gold Collection is nicer, but I am well pleased with this purchase. They feature some of the remembered classics I loved, and I am not obsessive about having each one made. It is also enough cartoons to share with kids in the family and give them a taste of what "real" cartoons really were and what we enjoyed. And it was great to watch and relive the old cartoons. Plus, the dvds are long enough to keep little ones laughing for a good amount of time! (Not to mention the adults!) It is fun to watch them as an adult, so you can see all the little subtle humour you missed as a child. I appreciate that they made two options available for Looney Tunes fans; a smaller more affordable collection for those that just want a smaller amount of cartoons, and a larger more expensive collection for those that want a more complete collection. I enjoyed them and would buy more in the future if more additions are made available.
January 7, 2008
Looney Tunes Vol 1- great purchase
My kids had never seen Looney Tunes before. They don't seem to get tired of watching this over and over!. This collection contains a good variety of Looney Tunes characters. I think it was a reasonable price for the amount of material you get!
November 8, 2007
"Old School" Fun
Great fun for me and the kids - quality entertainment without all the garbage that is in today's cartoons.
September 22, 2007
Looney Tunes the spotlight Vol.1
I was happy to find the looney tunes cartoons,
i used to turn my television on every saturday
just to see bugs bunny and friends, but unfortantely
they stop showing those cartoons,so i stopped watching
cartoons. but i did some searching and i found that amazon
had my cartoons and now i am like a kid in a candy store, i
can't stop purchasing ! i would recommend this DVD to anyone
who loves bugs bunny, daffy duck and friends!!!!
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