Press Release from Warner Home Video
BURBANK, CA (May 24, 2010) – Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are the big stars of Warner Home Video’s (WHV) latest Looney Tunes releases available in stores August 10, 2010. Titled Looney Tunes Super Stars: Bugs Bunny Hare Extraordinaire and Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck Frustrated Fowl, these releases are the first in a new series of WHV DVD collections that celebrate popular Looney Tunes characters. Each title is comprised of 15 newly remastered from original film elements, classic theatrical shorts (over two hours of content on each) new to DVD. Sold separately, each release will retail for $19.98 SRP.
Looney Tunes Super Stars: Bugs Bunny Hare Extraordinaire is devoted to everyone’s favorite carrot-crunching, “wascally wabbit.” Fifteen theatrical cartoons have found their way out of the vaults and onto this hilarious compilation. Included are Lumber Jack-Rabbit, which was directed by Chuck Jones and is the only Warner Bros. cartoon short produced in 3-D.
The good times roll with Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck Frustrated Fowl. This DVD is entirely devoted to that smart-aleck duck. Fifteen theatrical shorts are featured on this side-splitting compilation. Included is People are Bunny, which parodies Art Linkletter’s show People are Funny. Also featured is This is a Life?, which is a spoof the classic TV series This is Your Life, where Elmer Fudd parodies host Ralph Edwards. A parody of Edward R. Murrow’s TV series Person to Person is also featured on a short titled Person to Bunny.
Both Looney Tunes Super Stars: Bugs Bunny Hare Extraordinaire and Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck Frustrated Fowl feature a mix of both Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts directed by such legendary animators as Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin and others. Because the Daffy Duck shorts featured on the DVD are not edited for content, it is more suited for the adult collector than for young viewers.
“Cartoon fans won’t want to miss these two collections filled with un-edited and re-mastered versions of classic Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck shorts that were originally released theatrically during animation’s golden age,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation and Partner Brands Marketing. He added, “Our goal is to continue searching our vaults for animated gems such as these to surprise and please even the most experienced of cartoon connoisseurs.”
Mutiny on the Bunny
Tick Tock Tuckered
Bushy Hare
Nasty Quacks
Hare We Go
Daffy Dilly
Foxy by Proxy
Wise Quackers
Hare Trimmed
The Prize Pest
Lumber Jack-Rabbit
Design for Leaving
Napoleon Bunny-Part
Stork Naked
Bedevilled Rabbit
This Is a Life?
Apes of Wrath
Dime to Retire
From Hare to Heir
Ducking the Devil
Lighter than Hare
People Are Bunny
The Million Hare
Person to Bunny
Mad as a Mars Hare
Daffy’s Inn Trouble
Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
The Iceman Ducketh
False Hare
Suppressed Duck
The Credits
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