Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced and dated the Blu-ray release of
Tom & Jerry: The Golden Collection Volume Two. The second 2-disc collection of remastered classic shorts arrives on Blu-ray on June 11th.
Volume One is already available for purchase.
Official synopsis: Tom and Jerry have chased their way over the funnybones and into the hearts of moviegoers, TV viewers and Internet users for generations, and the iconic team's adventures are unleashed inside this delightful 2-Disc Collection of 42 Remastered Shorts, plus Fun Bonus Features. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the beloved cat and mouse appeared in "Puss Gets the Boot" (in which Tom was called Jasper and Jerry went unnamed) and became instant stars whose hilariously diabolical rivalry delighted everyone.
Among these golden nuggets are three are Academy Award winners (Best Short Subject: Cartoons), including "The Little Orphan," in which Jerry takes care of Nibbles, a hungry little mouse who causes chaos at the Thanksgiving table; "The Two Mousketeers," which features Jerry and Nibbles as two mousketeers who try to help themselves to a banquet that Tom is guarding; and lastly, "Johann Mouse," which stars Jerry as a music-loving, little mouse who lives with composer, Johann Strauss in Vienna. The collection also showcases two Academy Award-nominated shorts: "Hatch Up Your Troubles," which features a baby woodpecker who thinks Jerry is his mother, and "Jerry's Cousin," which has Jerry summon the help of his cousin, aptly named Muscles, to show him how to defend himself against Tom.
Other featured cartoons include "Just Ducky," in which Jerry teaches Quacker, a darling baby duckling, how to swim, and "Smitten Kitten," which features Tom, who falls head over heels for a beautiful feline, prompting his losing all interest in chasing after Jerry. The tussling twosome conduct an orchestra in "Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl." In "Saturday Evening Puss," Jerry's beauty sleep is interrupted when Tom invites his buddies over for a party that includes plenty of loud music. In "Tennis Chumps," all sorts of bad things happen to Tom; his racket catches fire, he becomes tangled in the net and swallows a bunch of tennis balls before he looses the match to Jerry, who wins a trophy.
Bonus materials include six new audio commentaries and an all-new featurette, "Animal Antics: The Friends and Foes of Tom and Jerry." Each cartoon has been re-mastered from the best surviving/earliest generation film elements, in order to create a reproduction that is most faithful to the original. Shorts include:
Disc 1
1. Polka-Dot Puss
2. The Little Orphan
3. Hatch Up Your Troubles
4. Heavenly Puss
5. The Cat and the Mermouse
6. Love that Pup
7. Jerry's Diary
8. Tennis Chumps
9. Little Quacker
10. Saturday Evening Puss
11. Texas Tom
12. Jerry and the Lion
13. Safety Second
14. Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl
15. The Framed Cat
16. Cue Ball Cat
17. Jerry and the Goldfish
18. Jerry's Cousin
19. Sleepy-Time Tom
20. His Mouse Friday
21. Slicked Up Pup
Disc 2
1. Nit-Witty Kitty
2. Cat Napping
3. The Flying Cat
4. The Duck Doctor
5. The Two Mouseketeers
6. Smitten Kitten
7. Triplet Trouble
8. Little Runaway
9. Fit to Be Tied
10. Push-Button Kitty
11. Cruise Cat
12. The Dog House
13. The Missile Mouse
14. Jerry and the Jumbo
15. Johann Mouse
16. That's My Pup!
17. Just Ducky
18. Two Little Indians
19. Life with Tom
20. Puppy Tale
21. Posse Cat