Product Details

• Actors: Bill Roberts (VIII)
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: November 3, 1992
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301978285
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,243 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who Killed Who With The Cat Who Hated People, February 28, 2001

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Michael Daly "Monkeesfan" (Wakefield, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tex Avery's Screwball Classics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Tex Avery first made a name for himself at Warner Brothers, but it was with MGM that his comedic genius burst forth to its fullest. These eight cartoons display the fast pace of gags, animation, and reaction shots that are the hallmark of Avery.

Who Killed Who was Avery's first MGM cartoon, and lampoons the mystery genre in terrific fashion, from the victim who's read the book based on the film to the suspects who put "a gun" on a table and it turns out to be a lot more than that.

The Cat Who Hated People sends its title character to the moon, where he finds it is A LOT stranger than home.

Bad Luck Blackie is a charming revenge cartoon where a black cat helps out a white kitten, and later Blackie's kindness is repaid in an ending that can almost be taken seriously in its message about mutual help.

Symphony In Slang is a different Avery cartoon, in that sight gags are done not for their own sake but to directly back the story, which is a hilarious tale of a man's romance told in a sea of cliches.

Avery's libidous wolf appears and jousts with Swing Shift Cinderella in a cartoon so popular with wartime servicemen it was replayed halfway through many features. The cartoon's sexual undertone is surprisingly effective in the gag where Cindy mashes Wolfie with a sledgehammer and now flattened to only two feet tall he deadpans, "Just call me shorty."

And so it goes with the king of cartoon comedy, Tex Avery.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, March 22, 1999

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Will (Wilkesboro, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tex Avery's Screwball Classics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I found this video very enjoyable. I had seen most of these cartoons before on t.v., but only the butchered versions that the censors felt were appropriate for you and I to see. I highly recommend this video if you wish to see Tex Avery's work as it was originally intended, not to mention that these are some of the most hilarious cartoons ever made anyway.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure animation gold. Needs to be on DVD!, December 13, 2004

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R. R Reyes "djray65" (American Super Hero in japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tex Avery's Screwball Classics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Why, oh why is this not on DVD?! This is a fantastic colection and should be on DVD (with lots of extras) for every one to enjoy. The toons are classic. I can remember seeing many of them as a kid. Some of the gags are a little dated, perticulaly those made during the war years. How ever, over all this was some of the best animation ever produced.
I hope the studio gets it together and put this out in DVD format.