Review(s): DVD Tom and Jerry - Spotlight Collection, Volume 2
Excellent!!! Can't wait for Volume 3!!!
Excellent
Can't wait for Volume 3!!!
Tom and Jerry - Spotlight Collection, Volumen 2
DVD-1:
1.-Puss Gets the Boot (9.15 minutes 10 Feb 1940)
The Cartoon that started it all. Mammy Two Shoes warns Tom, known as Jasper in this toon, that if he breaks one more thing he's out the door. Jerry, known as Jinx in this toon, decides to help his enemy out the door and succeeds.
2.-The Midnight Snack (8.15 minutes 19 July 1941)
Tom and Jerry battle over refrigerator rights. After various fighting and a clever maneuver by Jerry, Tom gets the boot out the house by Mammy.
3.-The Night Before Christmas (8.47 minutes 6 Dec 1941)
Christmas Eve finds Jerry running around the Christmas tree happy as can be. Then he finds himself bumping into Tom, more running ensues. Eventually, Jerry ends up out the mail slot and freezing in the cold. Tom, has a change of heart, it's Christmas after all, and lets Jerry back in.
4.-Fraidy Cat (8.11 minutes 17 Jan 1942)
Tom is listening to a scary radio station. Jerry takes advatage of the frighten kitty by making a ghost out of a vacuum cleaner and a nightshirt. Eventually, the tables are turned and Jerry frightens himself.
5.-Dog Trouble (7.57 minutes 18 Apr 1942)
Tom is chasing Jerry around the house. Jerry runs into a sleeping Spike (his debut), who promptly chases both cat and mouse. In a joint effort with Tom, Jerry winds a web of yarn around the living room. Spike gives chase and pulls all the furnishing with him. Mammy finds the dog in the trap and gives him the boot!
6.-Puss 'n' Toots (7.48 minutes 30 May 1942)
Mammy babysits a pretty kitten. Tom turns suave! He offers her a goldfish, a canary and a mouse. He tries to impress her with parlor tricks with Jerry as the magic coin. Jerry, angry at being used like this, turns the tables and wreeks havoc on Tom with a record player.
7.-The Bowling-Alley Cat (8.00 minutes 17 July 1942)
Adventures in the fast lanes, as Tom chases Jerry through a bowling alley. Fun and exciting as bowling aught to be.
8.-Fine Feathered Friend (7.43 minutes 10 Oct 1942)
Tom tries to trap Jerry in the barnyard. But Jerry enlists the help of a mother hem who is very protective of her nest.
9.-The Lonesome Mouse (8.07 minutes 22 May 1943)
When Tom gets kicked out of the house yet again, Jerry things it's his lucky day. He has fun in Tom's suacer of milk, defaces his picure and tears up his basket. But the thrill of the chase is gone and Jerry misses his nemesis. Jerry uses the unwitting Mammy's assistance to get Tom back into the house.
10.-Puttin' On the Dog (7.02 minutes 28 Oct 1944)
Tom chases Jerry into the dog pound. Finding himself on dangerous ground, Tom disguises himself as a dog to find Jerry. Once it is discovered that Tom is a cat, the dogs chase him up a flag pole.
11.-The Mouse Comes to Dinner (7.18 minutes 2 May 1945)
Jerry is pressed into "service", when Tom invites his kitten girlfriend over for dinner. Tom gets too amorous with his girlfriend, who hits him with a hammer labeled "wolf pacifier". Jerry gets into the act of beating on Tom and a free for all begins. Tom ends up in the punch bowl.
12.-Mouse in Manhattan (8.06 minutes 7 July 1945)
Country mouse Jerry takes a trip to New York. He admires skyscrapers, stumbles into a powder room, dangles over the city on a candle, and dances the night away. He is confronted by hungy alley cats, shot at by police, and chased by a subway train, he returns to the safety of his country home.
13.-Springtime for Thomas (7.37 minutes 30 Mar 1946)
On a beautiful spring day, Tom stares dreaminly at a girl cat sunbathing. He gets the courage to go talk to her and Jerry tries to break up the budding affair by getting Meathead involved with a forged letter. The race is on for the affections of the girl.
14.-Trap Happy (7.08 Minutes 29 June 1946)
Tom calls in an exterminator (Meathead) to dispose of Jerry. But all attempts fail as Jerry cleverly out wits his foes at every turn.
15.-Part Time Pal (7.50 minutes 15 Mar 1947)
The dangers of alcohol. Tom falls into a barrel of cider, gets drunk, raids the fridge, pals up with Jerry, tries to give Mammy a hot foot, and then douses her with a pitcher of water. Mammy is not happy about that and chases the cat out the house and down the street.
16.-Professor Tom (7.47 minutes 30 Oct 1948)
Tom is teaching his student kitten how to catch a mouse. Jerry befriends the kitten much to the dismay of his teacher.
17.-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (7.24 minutes 14 June 1947)
Jerry turns into a supersized supermouse thanks to a concoction of Tom. Jerry finally gets a chance to turn the tables on Tom by pushing him around.
18.-Old Rockin' Chair Tom (7.39 minutes 18 Sept 1948)
Mammy replaces Tom with a ginger cat named Lightning. Lightning gets Tom in trouble getting the Tom kicked out of the house. Tom and Jerry decide that Lightning has to go and team up to get rid of him.
19.-The Cat and The Mermouse (7.49 minutes 3 Sept 1949)
Underwater adventures as Tom chases Jerry beneath the sea.
20.-Polka Dot Puss (7.38 minutes 26 Feb 1949)
Jerry paints Tom's face while he is sleeping. Jerry convinces the cat that he has measles. He puts himself in Jerry's hands for some rather creative nursing. In the end the hoax is discovered, but Jerry does get the measles and then gives it to Tom.
DVD-2:
1.-Saturday Evening Puss (6.18 minutes 14 Jan 1950)
When Mammy goes out for the eveing, Tom and his cat pals, Shorty and Meathead, through a party. "Darktown Strutter's Ball" is the tune that gets the cats partying. A sleeping Jerry doesn't like being awoken by the raucous and phones Mammy. She returns and kicks the cats out, only to turn up the same tune; much to the dismay of Jerry.
2.-Little Quacker (7.07 minutes 7 Jan 1950)
The screen debut of Quacker. The duck is nabbed by Tom and Quacker finds protection in Jerry. The eventually find Quacker's parents who in turn punish Tom for messing with their little duckling.
3.-Texas Tom (6.34 minutes 11 Mar 1950)
Again a women gets the attention of Tom. Tom enlists an unwilling Jerry's help who promptly tries to interupts the wooing with a bull.
4.-Safety Second (7.07 minutes 1 July 1950)
Jerry and Nibbles celebrate the Fourth of July. Nibbles wants to blow things up and Jerry wants to play it safe. Tom gets involved and ends up getting blown up.
5.-Sleepy-Time Tom (7.05 minutes 26 May 1951)
After a night out with his friends, Tom is too exhausted to chase Jerry. Jerry takes advantage of this and entices Tom to Mammy's bedroom where Tom takes a nap. Mammy is not pleased and throws Tom out the window where he is picked up by his friends for another night out.
6.-Cruise Cat (7.02 Minutes 18 Oct 1952)
Tom is a mascot aoard a Honolulu bound ship. He is informed by the captain that if he sees a mouse onboard they will be getting a new mascot. Jerry stowaways and makes life miserbale for Tom.
7.-Nit-witty Kitty (6.33 minutes 6 Oct 1951)
When Mammy whacks Tom with her broom, he suffers an attack of amnesia and begins acting like a mouse. Much to the dismay of Jerry. Mammy and Jerry both try to knock sense back into Tom.
8.-Triplet Touble (7.09 minutes 19 Apr 1952)
Mammy babysits three seemingly sweet kittens who turn out to be really nasty! Taking on Tom and Jerry is more than they bargain for and in the end the kittens end up with some well deserved discipline.
9.-Push-Button Kitty (6.33 minutes 6 Sept 1952)
Mammy gets a mechanical cat that immediately proves its superiority by evicting Jerry. Jerry gets back into the house by releasing an army of mechanical mice. "Mechano" tears up the house chasing them, until he self-desturcts. Mammy is thankful that Tom is still around to take care of Jerry. This is the last screen appearance of Mammy.
10.-The Missing Mouse (6.33 minutes 10 Jan 1953)
The radio reports that a white mouse, having swallowed enough explosives to blow up the city, has escaped from a lab. Jerry takes advantage of Tom's fears and dunks himself with white shoe polish. Then the real white mouse shows up and causes all sorts of trouble.
11.-Jerry and Jumbo (7.13 minutes 21 Feb 1953)
More circus fun when a baby elephant falls from a passing train and rolls into Tom's basket. Tom is able to hold his own when Jerry and the elephant team up, that is, until Mama Elephant shows up.
12.-Just Ducky (7.57 minutes 5 Sept 1953)
Jerry tries to teach little Quacker how to swim.
13.-Little School Mouse (7.50 minutes 29 May 1954)
The flip side of Professor Tom, Jerry teaches Tuffy (Nibbles) the art of outwitting a cat.
14.-Pet Peeve (6.35 minutes 20 Nov 1954)
Husband and wife tell Tom and Spike that, due to the high cost of feeding them, one must go, and the one who catches Jerry will stay. Eventually, they both get kicked out. This is the first Tom and Jerry in CinemaScope(ie. Letterbox).
15.-Southbound Duckling (6.15 minutes 12 Mar 1955)
Stubborn Quacker, convinced this time that all ducks go south for the winter, refuses to stay home like his domestic buddies even though he can't fly. To complicate things Tom is hunger for a duck meal.
16.-Tom and Cherie (6.46 minutes 9 Sept 1955)
The third outing for the mousketeers find Tuffy as errand boy between Jerry and his love. Unfortunately, Tuffy has to deal with Tom during his errands.
17.-Muscle Beach Tom (6.45 minutes 7 Sept 1956)
Tom and Butch try to impress a girl with their muscle building abilities.
18.-Downbeat Bear (6.22 minutes 21 Oct 1956)
A dancing bear, who eascaped from a circus, uses Tom as his reluctant dance partner.
19.-Mucho Mouse (7.04 minutes 6 Sept 1957)
Tom, the "Olympic, U.S. and World Champion Mouse Catcher", heads to Spain to catch "El Magnifico" (Jerry).
20.-Tot Watchers (6.28 minutes 1 Aug 1958)
Babysitter Jeannie, still attached to the phone, leaves Tom and Jerry watching the baby. Final Tom and Jerry directed by Hanna and Barbera at MGM studios. Sadly, Tom and Jerry have never reached the quality of these years.
this set is garbage
the cartoons are EDITED folks..
EDITED!!
i'll continue spending my money on bootleg T&J dvds from ebay since they are UNCUT & untampered with
Still a Classic Cartoon Series
Its a shame all the negativity about this DVD set regarding edited episodes and Warners' ridiculous disclaimer on the back of the DVD stating that "intended for the adult collector and may not be suitable for children" (I can't think of anything MORE appropriate for children). The bottom line is that this is an effortlessly enjoyable, downright hilarious series that has lost none of its magic in all these years. Just try not to fall over laughing in epsiodes like "Sleepy Time Tom", "Triplet Trouble" and "Cruise Cat" (just to name a few). Personally I find the later episodes more endearing and hysterical because they made Tom's facial and body tics more pronounced . Yes, the obvious voice dubbing of Mammy Two Shoes is disheartening, but the real charm here are the lovable antics between cat and mouse. Grab your kids and/or significant other and a tub of popcorn, relax, and prepare to be charmed, entertained and bowled over with laughter through this delightful DVD set.
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