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Warner Archive's third volume of Tex Avery's MGM cartoons collects shorts from the director's final years at the studio, showcasing his wild sight gags, breakneck pacing, and gleefully rule-breaking animation.

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Contains 14 cartoons: Henpecked Hoboes (1946); Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947); Half-Pint Pygmy (1948); Lucky Ducky (1948); Droopy's Good Deed (1951); Caballero Droopy (1952); Millionaire Droopy (1956); Cat's Meow (1957); Grin and Share It (1957); Blackboard Jumble (1957); One Droopy Knight (1957); Sheep Wrecked (1958); Mutts About Racing (1958); Droopy Leprechaun (1958) The fourth and final volume of Warner Archive's Tex Avery Screwball Classics brings together 14 uncut MGM cartoons: the five previously unreleased Tex Avery shorts, his two CinemaScope remakes, and the Droopy cartoons directed by Michael Lah after Avery's departure from the studio.

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Disc 1 contains 20 theatrical shorts: Puss Gets the Boot, The Midnight Snack, The Night Before Christmas, Fraidy Cat, Dog Trouble, Puss n' Toots, The Bowling Alley-Cat, Fine Feathered Friend, Sufferin' Cats!, The Lonesome Mouse, The Yankee Doodle Mouse, Baby Puss, The Zoot Cat, The Million Dollar Cat, The Bodyguard, Puttin' on the Dog, Mouse Trouble, The Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse in Manhattan, and Tee for Two, plus 'The Midnight Snack' pencil test. A collection of the theatrical cartoon shorts created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, built around the never-ending rivalry between Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse, whose chases and battles play out in comic violence.

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Disc 1 contains 22 theatrical shorts from 1940–1945 in chronological order — Puss Gets the Boot, The Midnight Snack, The Night Before Christmas, Fraidy Cat, Dog Trouble, Puss n' Toots, The Bowling Alley-Cat, Fine Feathered Friend, Sufferin' Cats!, The Lonesome Mouse, The Yankee Doodle Mouse, Baby Puss, The Zoot Cat, The Million Dollar Cat, The Bodyguard, Puttin' on the Dog, Mouse Trouble, The Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse in Manhattan, Tee for Two, Flirty Birdy and Quiet Please! — plus audio commentaries on eight of the shorts. For the first time, all 114 theatrical Tom and Jerry shorts created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera are gathered in a single definitive collection — every chase, gag and laugh that defined generations. Since their 1940 debut, the legendary cat-and-mouse duo have become global icons, setting the standard for animated shorts with their blend of slapstick humor and inventive storytelling. This anthology preserves their golden-era legacy with several fully remastered shorts and quality improvements to many others, so they look and sound better than at any time since their original theatrical presentations — including Casanova Cat, Mouse Cleaning and His Mouse Friday, completely remastered and uncut for the first time. Spanning nearly two decades of Academy Award-winning animation, the set is a landmark release for collectors, families and fans of animation history.

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Disc 2 contains 24 Tom and Jerry shorts from 1946–1949, running from Springtime for Thomas through Tennis Chumps — including The Cat Concerto, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse, Mouse Cleaning (on US home video for the first time) and The Little Orphan — plus seven audio commentaries (on The Cat Concerto, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse, Kitty Foiled, The Little Orphan, Hatch Up Your Troubles and Heavenly Puss). At last, the complete Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry: every lit stick of dynamite, every fur-flying chase and every backfiring mousetrap, restored, complete and uncut. This definitive collection gathers all 114 theatrical shorts — the entire run of animation's favorite feuding duo, exactly as MGM first released them to theaters during Hollywood's Golden Age — together in one set for the first time.

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Disc 3 contains 26 Tom and Jerry shorts from 1950–1952, running from Little Quacker through The Dog House — including Casanova Cat (on US home video for the first time), His Mouse Friday (presented completely uncut for the first time on any home format) and The Two Mouseketeers — plus four audio commentaries (on Saturday Evening Puss, Jerry's Cousin, The Two Mouseketeers and Push-Button Kitty). At last, the complete Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry: every lit stick of dynamite, every fur-flying chase and every backfiring mousetrap, restored, complete and uncut. This definitive collection gathers all 114 theatrical shorts — the entire run of animation's favorite feuding duo, exactly as MGM first released them to theaters during Hollywood's Golden Age — together in one set for the first time.

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Disc 4 contains 25 Tom and Jerry shorts from 1953–1955, running from The Missing Mouse through That's My Mommy — including Johann Mouse, Touché, Pussy Cat!, Pecos Pest and the CinemaScope shorts Pet Peeve and Pup on a Picnic — plus an audio commentary on Johann Mouse. At last, the complete Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry: every lit stick of dynamite, every fur-flying chase and every backfiring mousetrap, restored, complete and uncut. This definitive collection gathers all 114 theatrical shorts — the entire run of animation's favorite feuding duo, exactly as MGM first released them to theaters during Hollywood's Golden Age — together in one set for the first time.

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Disc 5 contains the final 17 Tom and Jerry shorts, from 1956–1958, running from The Flying Sorceress through Tot Watchers — the CinemaScope-era cartoons, including Blue Cat Blues, Mucho Mouse, Happy Go Ducky and Robin Hoodwinked. (Per the set's audio note, three shorts on this disc, numbers 88–90 in the series, are presented in stereo; all other shorts in the set are mono.) At last, the complete Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry: every lit stick of dynamite, every fur-flying chase and every backfiring mousetrap, restored, complete and uncut. This definitive collection gathers all 114 theatrical shorts — the entire run of animation's favorite feuding duo, exactly as MGM first released them to theaters during Hollywood's Golden Age — together in one set for the first time.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains over three hours of special features: the new featurettes Lady of the House: The Story of Mammy Two-Shoes and Animal Hijinks: The Friends and Foes of Tom and Jerry, a side-by-side pencil test for The Midnight Snack, the documentaries Cat and Mouse: The Tale of Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry: Behind the Tunes, Animators as Actors, How Bill and Joe Met Tom and Jerry, Vaudeville, Slapstick and Tom and Jerry and The Comedy Stylings of Tom and Jerry, a 1953 excerpt from Dangerous When Wet and The Worry Song sequence from Anchors Aweigh (both in HD), and three bonus Hanna-Barbera cartoons from The Complete CinemaScope Collection: Good Will to Men (1955), Give and Tyke (1957) and Scat Cats (1957).

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All 23 Tom and Jerry cartoons Hanna and Barbera made in CinemaScope — the widescreen run that began with Pet Peeve (1954) — collected on Blu-ray by Warner Archive, joined by three bonus Hanna-Barbera shorts: Good Will to Men, Give and Tyke, and Scat Cats.