Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire | |
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Directed by | Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones |
Produced by | Eddie Selzer, John W. Burton, David H. DePatie |
Starring | Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil, Granny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, Mel Blanc (voice) |
Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire is a DVD of 15 new-to-DVD Bugs Bunny cartoons released on August 10, 2010. [1] Along with Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl , these two DVDs are the successor to the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. None of the cartoons featured in this DVD were previously found on the Golden Collection sets.
# | Title | Co-Stars | Release Date | Director | Series |
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1 | Mutiny on the Bunny | Sam | February 11, 1950 | Friz Freleng | LT |
2 | Bushy Hare | November 18, 1950 | Robert McKimson | LT | |
3 | Hare We Go | January 6, 1951 | Robert McKimson | MM | |
4 | Foxy by Proxy | February 23, 1952 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
5 | Hare Trimmed | Granny, Sam | June 20, 1953 | Friz Freleng | MM |
6 | ^ Lumber Jack-Rabbit * | September 26, 1953 | Chuck Jones | LT | |
7 | ^ Napoleon Bunny-Part | June 16, 1956 | Friz Freleng | MM | |
8 | ^ Bedevilled Rabbit | Taz | April 13, 1957 | Robert McKimson | MM |
9 | ^Apes of Wrath | Daffy (cameo) | April 18, 1959 | Friz Freleng | MM |
10 | ^ From Hare to Heir | Sam | September 3, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
11 | ^ Lighter Than Hare | Sam | December 17, 1960 | Friz Freleng | MM |
12 | ^The Million Hare | Daffy | April 6, 1963 | Robert McKimson | LT |
13 | ^ Mad as a Mars Hare | Marvin | October 19, 1963 | Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble | MM |
14 | ^ Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare | Taz | March 28, 1964 | Robert McKimson | MM |
15 | ^False Hare | Foghorn (cameo) | July 18, 1964 | Robert McKimson | LT |
(^) - Cropped to widescreen. [2]
This was one of two first Looney Tunes Super Stars that released the majority of some of the cartoons but in a 1:85 widescreen format. Warner Bros. has stated the reason for this was because that was how the post-1953 cartoons were shown in theaters, which made many collectors upset as cartoons were filmed in Academy full-screened ratio, not widescreen.
In 2011 Bedevilled Rabbit, Mad as a Mars Hare and Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare were re-released as part of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 DVD and Blu-Ray set presenting them in their original 4:3 aspect ratios. In 2020 Lumber Jack-Rabbit, Napoleon Bunny-Part, From Hare to Heir, The Million Hare and False Hare were included as part of the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-Ray and were once again presented in their original 4:3 aspect ratios.
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a series of six four-disc DVD sets from Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts originally released from the 1930s to 1960s. The initial run of the series was in folding cardboard packaging issued gradually from October 28, 2003 to October 21, 2008. A boxed set combining all six volumes was released in 2011, and each volume was reissued separately in standard Amaray-style cases in 2020.
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