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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396211049
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, Full Screen
Item Dimensions: 40
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 043396211049
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Running Time: 340 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Chronological collection of the Stooges' filmography.
Amazon.com:
Finally, the studio knuckleheads got it right! The way that the Three Stooges have been presented on home video has been a real slap in the face and a poke in the eye to fans. The Stooges have been anthologized, colorized, and public domained. Their shorts have been released and re-released in varying degrees of quality. In the immortal words of Curly, they have truly been victims of circumstance. This two-DVD set, then, is for what Stooge-philes have long been waiting. Spanning the years 1934-36, it presents the first 19 Stooges short subjects chronologically. These shorts hail from the Curly era, which makes them essential. The first, "Women Haters," comes billed as a "musical novelty" and is performed entirely in rhyme. More interesting is that Moe, Larry, and Curly appear as Tom, Jim, and Jack. In the second short, "Punch Drunks," they are again not quite a team, but teaming up to make a boxer out of put-upon waiter Curly. This is the one in which Curly "pops" when he hears "that 'Weasel' tune." And the hits just keep on coming.
Remember the prologue of The Twilight Zone: The Movie, in which traveling companions Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks trade favorite "Zones"? Many of the shorts gathered here are the ones most quoted or referenced by Stooges fans, such as "Men in Black," the only Stooges short to be nominated for an Academy Award, and the one with the immortal page "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr Fine, Dr. Howard." "Hoi Polloi" is the first Stooges short to tackle the "environment" vs. "heredity" conundrum by introducing the Stooges to high society, reducing the well-heeled stuff shirts into a slap-happy mob. "Pop Goes the Easel" introduces another recurring theme in the Stooges oeuvre as the boys pose as artists in the art school in which they take refuge from a pursuing cop. This short contains a signature Curlyism, "Look at the grouse," as does "Horses' Collars," in which the mere sight of a mouse completely unnerves Curly ("Moe! Larry! The Cheese!) "Three Little Pigskins" is another mistaken identity gem, as the boys pose as three football players (look for a very young and very blonde Lucille Ball). Like the Little Rascals, the Stooges in these shorts were very much of their Depression-era times, but "Uncivil Warriors," "Restless Knights," and the decidedly un-PC "Whoops, I'm an Indian" get their anachronistic kicks by placing the boys behind enemy lines during the Civil War, in the medieval castle of a kidnapped Queen, and in the Old West. Collectors who have suffered through, say, "Disorder in the Court" on one of those $1 bin Stooges collections will be heartened to know that this set at last does these comedy classics justice. More than 70 years old, and they look better than ever! So spread out and get your n'yucks on! --Donald Liebenson
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To enable my son to gain some American culture (we live in Europe), I decided to buy these. Of course, I was brought up on the stooges, so this was a chance for us to bond in a new way. He and I love this, his sister and mother naturally do not. Every so often, we set aside a stooge time and are getting through these at a regular clip.
This first volume is when they were hitting their stride. Curly is definitely the best, and here he is energetic and discovering his voice and persona. ... Read More
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Hey you knucklehead, yeah I'm talking to you grapehead, get moving! Go get this video now. Oh, a wiseguy eh? You want a reason? I'll give you two...( poke )..., now go on, ...( slap )..., before I get mad! Get this collection and quit stalling! Do you have a little doe? That's good, cause it will only cost you a few "bucks"... nyuk nyuk nyuk..., when you can get gold comedy performances by the unrivaled masters of physical humor at the price this collection is being offered at, you'd have to have ... Read More
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My dad has been waiting for this for years! He's sick of the dvd sets that mix up the episodes and you can buy 3 different dvds and have many of the episodes repeat. This is exactly what he wanted, a chronological copy of his beloved stooges. I bought it for him for Father's Day and it seriously made his day!
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Many guest stars revealed- not like the L.P. That's the way it was back then-even though we knew friend Clapton and Starr was involved-did you know that Frampton stopped by and played guitar on many tracks-(not mentioned)heard from Frampton in a recent interview-but now we know Ginger Baker was in one of the jam sessions. Embrace what George couldn't release with the Beatles. Not to forget Gary Brooker-from Procol Harum and Dave mason from Traffic.
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This is a review for the double disc set, THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION VOL 1: 1934-1936.
Sony released this first volume of Stooge films in 2007 to great acclaim, just read
the reviews if you don't believe me.
This release was an important event three years ago and here's why:
For the first time, Sony/Columbia demonstrated to Stooge fans and film buffs everywhere
that The Three Stooges were being taken seriously enough to have a chronologically
issued set of their ... Read More
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