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TEX AVERY SCREWBALL CLASSICS Volume 3 - After altering the face of cartoon comedy at Warner Bros. With his development of characters such as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, Avery headed to M-G-M to further his reign of mayhem with the likes of Screwball Squirrel, Red Hot Riding Hood and Droopy. All of Avery's star characters are featured here: Droopy, as a Mountie, a bullfighter and a Western deputy; Spike, as a hibernating bear's weary watchdog; Red, as both Cinderella and a frontier cowgirl; and Screwball Squirrel, as - what else? - an escapee of a lunatic asylum. But it's the stories, premises and gags that are front and center in Avery's films - and this collection features his absolute best. Where to begin? With a cat, a mouse, a dog and a canary drinking "Jumbo Gro"; a lovelorn skunk stuck on imitating Frank Sinatra; or a baby billy goat who eats absolutely everything including the cartoon's background paintings? Avery's screwball classics, his one-shot wonders, are what really made his reputation. Twenty-one shorts-including "Happy-Go-Nutty" (1944), "Swing Shift Cinderella" (1945), "Wild and Woolfy" (1945), "King-Size Canary" (1948), "Senor Droopy" (1949), "Little 'Tinker" (1948), "Rock-a-Bye Bear" (1952), and "Billy Boy" (1954)-are collected here. 21 cartoons on 1 disc. 150 minutes