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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 2: 1937-1939
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Sales rank: 165
Get ready for more outrageous antics as The Three Stooges return in this second collection of chronological masterpieces.System Requirements:Running Time: 415 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SLAPSTICK UPC: 043396257993 Manufacturer No: 25799By 1937, where Volume Two of this long overdue chronological collection picks up, Moe, Larry, and Curly had been performing together for over a decade, and appeared in several feature films and 19 short subjects for Columbia. They were just getting warmed up; there is nary a clunker among the 24 shorts on this two-disc set. Several rank in the Stooges pantheon, including "Grips, Grunts and Groans" (with Bustoff the wrestler), "Violent is the Word for Curly" (with "Swinging the Alphabet"), and "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb" (the Stooges live the hotel high life after Curly wins a radio contest). These comedies must have been a great escape for Depression-era moviegoers, particularly the ones in which the rich are reduced to food-throwing goofs ("Three Sappy People"). For the Stooges, it’s not prosperity that’s around the corner, but more often, con men on the lookout for "suckers" to swindle ("A Ducking They Will Go," "Playing the Ponies"). Reflecting America’s can-do spirit, the Stooges are nothing if not resilient. These shorts may find them down, but they are never out. The boys are ungainfully employed as Calvary spies ("Goofs and Saddles"), janitors ("Three Missing Links"), dog washers ("Mutts to You"), firemen ("Flat Foot Stooges"), traveling salesmen ("Saved by the Belle"), and vets ("Calling all Curs"). Some of the best shorts turn on mistaken identity: They are confused for college professors in "Violent is the Word for Curly," high society escorts in "Termites of 1938," and famous decorators in "Tassels in the Air." For all the hair-tearing, eye-poking, and shovel-clobbering, the Stooges surprise with the odd musical grace note, such as their rendition of the silly "The Lollipop Song" in "Wee Wee Monsieur," and their music box-accompanied pas-de-trio with pilgrim lasses Faith, Hope, and Charity in "Back to the Woods." One also does not ordinarily look to the Stooges for pathos, or, for that matter, heartwarming happy endings, but "Cash and Carry" delivers both as the boys set out to raise $500 for a crippled boy's operation. "Flat Foot Stooges" is something of a milestone. It marks the debut of "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges new theme song, which would replace the twittering "Listen to the Mockingbird." The shorts are presented complete and uncut, which means the PC police are standing by to issue citations for such egregious stereotypes as the grunting, shrieking "savages" in the colonial comedy, "Back to the Woods," and the Stooges’ turn as Yiddish-speaking Chinese launderers in "Mutts to You." --Donald Liebenson |
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 1: 1934-1936
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Sales rank: 285
When The Three Stooges first signed with Columbia Pictures their deal was for one short. 1934's Woman Haters done entirely in rhyme wasn't a huge success but the Stooges hit their stride with their second short Punch Drunks and began to settle into their definitive roles -- Moe as boss Larry the middleman and Curly as their foil.Witness the rise of these comedy icons in this high-spirited collection containing the first 19 Columbia Pictures shorts all of which have been remastered for the best quality picture and sound. You'll experience the eye-pokes face slaps hollow head knocks and knuckle cracks like you've never heard or seen them before. So go ahead nyuck yourself out!Includes:Woman HatersPunch DrunksMen In BlackThree Little PigskinsHorses' CollarsPop Goes The EaselUncivil WarriorsPardon My ScotchHoi PolloiThree Little BeersAnts In The PantryMovie ManiacsHalf-Shot ShootersDisorder In The CourtA Pain In The PullmanFalse AlarmsWhoops I'm An Indian!Slippery SilksSystem Requirements:Running Time: 340 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396211049 Manufacturer No: 21104Finally, 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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The Three Stooges: Extreme Rarities
Release Date: 2007-03-27
Sales rank: 13416
Extreme Rarities - Extremely rare routines in color for the very first time. System Requirements:Run Time: 77 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 796019799522 Manufacturer No: 79952 |
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The Three Stooges: Curly Classics
Release Date: 1999-02-02
Sales rank: 11926
Fun with The Three Stooges in six zany episodes: A Plumbing We Will Go(1940): Three would-be plumbers mistake pipes filled with wires for water pipes. Dudley Dickerson's battle in the kitchen is a highlight. Men In Black(1934): Medical malpractice is an understatement when describing what the Stooges do to the Los Arms Hospital, where they dispense unorthodox advice, flirt with the nurses and battle a babbling intercom system. With: Dell Henderson, Jeannie Roberts and Billy Gilbert. Micro-phonies (1945): When Curly is mistaken for an opera diva, the Stooges find their calling on the stage as Senorita Cucaracha (Curly) and Senors Mucho and Gusto (Larry and Moe). With: Christine McIntyre, Symona Boniface and Gino Corrado. Punch Drunks(1934): Larry's rendition of Pop Goes The Weasel transforms Curly from a harmless cream puff into a vicious contender, but when Larry's violin breaks, it threatens Curly's boxing career with a TKO. With: Dorothy Granger and Al Hill. Three Little Pigskins (1934): When the Stooges are mistaken for star football players, they not only find themselves running for goals but running for their lives when they get mixed up with the gorgeous girlfriends of a group of mobsters. With: Lucille Ball, Gertie Green and Phyllis Crane. Woman Haters(1934): When Larry breaks his oath to the Woman Haters Club by marrying, he is treated like a traitor by his fellow members. But getting out of the marriage may be even more harmful than anything his friends could ever do to him. The Stooges' first short was done entirely in rhyme. With: Marjorie White. |
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150 Cartoon Classics
Release Date: 2006-02-07
Sales rank: 14952
Mill Creek Entertainment introduces the ultimate cartoon collection for one incredibly low price.
WOW! 150 Cartoon Classics DVD Set. PRICED LOW! Hours of classic animation! Here's the ultimate collection of 150 Classic Cartoons. A laugh a minute featuring all-time favorite characters and fun-filled antics from the Golden Age of animation. Starring Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, The Three Stooges, Casper, Betty Boop and more on 4 Discs. Set weighs 6 ozs. Nab your kid-friendly Set now! 150 Cartoon Classics DVD Set |
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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
Release Date: 2005-06-28
Sales rank: 19425
The Three Stooges hop in a time machine and are transported to the era of the Roman Legion in Greece. Dressed in sandals and togas they are trapped on a galley ship battle cyclops and wind up in a madcap chariot chase. Former professional football players and real-life twins Mike and Marlin McKeever are along for the ride playing a Siamese-twin cyclops.System Requirements:Running Time: 89 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396114456 Manufacturer No: 11445Very much in the tradition of such Columbia Three Stooges period shorts as "Back to the Woods," the 1962 costume epic The Three Stooges Meet Hercules is 100% pure Moe-Larry-Curly Joe comedy, with the barest of a ho- hum love interest to detract from the nonsense at hand. Working at the pharmacy of an ill-tempered boss (George N. Neise) and friends of a budding time-machine inventor named Schuyler (Quinn Redeker), the Stooges and Schuyler, along with the obligatory attractive female, Diana (Vicki Trickett), are transported back to the time of Hercules. Here the legendary hero (Samson Burke) is the enforcer for King Odius (Neise in a double role), and anachronisms are rampant in an English-speaking ancient Greece. Twice condemned as galley slaves, the Stooges see that Schuyler now has the muscles but not the self-confidence to rescue Diana and the rest of Greece from the odious Odius. Schuyler is tricked into thinking himself all-powerful and performs many Herculean labors (with many a stuffed animal and some decent backscreen projection). Although Curly Joe seems a few notches above his namesake in the brains department (which is not saying all that much), his reactions at times of real and supposed danger are quite ordinary compared with the old Curly. In fact, it is Moe who takes on the Curly bark at a recalcitrant prop. But the old sound effects are there to punctuate blows to belly and head, although eye pokes are out, due to parental objections to the influence of the trio, newly popular on television. --Frank Behrens |
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The Three Stooges: The Three Stooges in Orbit
Release Date: 2003-11-25
Sales rank: 21387
Moe Larry and Joe star as the Three Stooges in this science-fiction farce that has a pair of Martians trying to steal an all-powerful submarine-tank-rocket military weapon. As the Martians are flying away with it the Stooges hang on and force it to crash-land in a television studio.System Requirements:Running Time: 87 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396018709 Manufacturer No: 01870The Three Stooges in Orbit has the team playing not only themselves but themselves trying to make it big on a television show. Since they keep breaking leases by cooking in their apartments, they rent a room in a spooky castle that houses not only a wacky professor (played by "the fourth Stooge," Emil Sitka, veteran of many a Stooge short) and his pretty daughter, but a pair of Martians who are waiting for him to perfect his latest invention and use it to conquer the Earth. After an old situation-device in which the craft is too large to leave the workroom, the Stooges make a trip into space that adds nothing to the plot, and finally defeat the invaders by hoisting them on their own petard. The usual chase routine is replaced here by a fairly well done sequence in which the team is outside the craft trying to thwart the two Martians locked inside the craft, while a death ray is wiping out most of California. (The use of stock footage from other monster-invasion films is unintentionally hilarious.) The love interest, deemed so necessary in films aimed at young audiences, is brief and tinged with mild comedy. The Martian make-up is obviously based on the original Frankenstein head shape, and it is a relief to hear them speak in some babble other than English as subtitles "translate" for us. In fact, the cleverest bit in this film is Moe's reading a subtitle to learn of the proposed destruction of this planet--a gag worthy of Mel Brooks. The film reveals its age when the chief Martian bangs his boot on the table in the manner of Khrushchev and his shoe at the United Nations. But the only real weaknesses are Curly Joe's fright reactions, so much funnier when done by Curly or Shemp in the past. --Frank Behrens |
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The Three Stooges DVD Collection (Curly Classics / Spook Louder / All the World's a Stooge)
Release Date: 2001-08-21
Sales rank: 12290
Includes 3 Classic Stooges DVDs: Curly Classics : Fun with The Three Stooges in six zany episodes: "A Plumbing We Will Go", "Men In Black", "Micro-Phonies", "Punch Drunks", "Three Little Pigskins" and "Woman Haters." All the World's a Stooge: Includes these hilarious episodes: "Grips, Grunts and Groans", "All the World's a Stooge," "3 Dumb Clucks," "Three Little Pirates," "Uncivil War Birds," "Back to the Woods" and "Violent is the Word for Curly." Spook Louder: Digital mayhem ensues in this spooktacular selection of the trio's six funniest fear fests: "Spook Louder", "Mummy's Dummies", "Shivering Sherlocks", "The Ghost Talks", "Hokus Pokus", and "Fright Night." |
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Snow White and the Three Stooges
Release Date: 2005-04-26
Sales rank: 20658
The world's greatest fairy tale is about to get a few new and hilarious wrinkles. For starters, it's all live action as Snow White takes to the ice in the person of 1960 Olympic figure skating champion, Carol Heiss. Then, standing in for the Seven Dwarfs,Many Stooges fans will find Snow White and the Three Stooges painful going, while some might find it quite charming. The film was conceived as a vehicle for Carol Heiss, the 1960 Olympic figure skating champion, but it was obvious that her limited acting would not carry the classic plot very far. So the Three Stooges were substituted for the Seven Dwarfs, and Prince Charming (Edson Stroll) became their companion. The start and end of the film follow the Disney version fairly closely, with Patricia Medina providing the only real acting as the Wicked Queen, abetted by the reliable villainy of Guy Rolfe. In fact, Snow White lost in the woods is almost a frame-by-frame copy of the Disney sequence, complete with a live tree out of the 1939 Wizard of Oz. This might grab some youngsters' attention by frightening them and some by amusing them, but the love sequences and the forgettable songs might bore them. The fight sequences are possibly too grisly for some children; Guy Rolfe dies by falling into a vat of boiling oil. As a Three Stooges vehicle, it differs from their other films. Except for Curly Joe's spoonerisms, there is little humor in the dialogue, a bare minimum of slaps (without the reassuring comic sounds), and no eye pokes. (Moe was sensitive to parental complaints about their television shorts.) There is, however, a touching moment when they are mourning the supposed death of Snow White. And you do get to see them in color. --Frank Behrens |
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The Three Stooges: Stooges at Work
Release Date: 2004-01-13
Sales rank: 12785
BOOBY DUPES (1945): The Stooges find out what that sinking feeling really feels like when they decide to increase the profits of their fish business by catching the fish themselves. Things are going swimmingly until Captain Curly goes overboard using an ax on his catch. CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944): When an editor mistakes laundrymen Curly Moe and Larry for rival reporters he hires them to get the scoop on a pressing story. As they iron out the details the Stooges cook up more trouble than can be foung in the paper's headlines. DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1941): When the editor of Whack magazine sends photographers Larry Moe and Curly to Vulgaria which prohibits cameras under penalty of death nothing but problems develop and they're the ones who wind up almost being shot - literally. HOW HIGH IS UP? (1940): Fix-it men Larry Moe and Curly find themselves in a riveting situation when they get hired as riverters for a constuction company. Assigned to a skyscraper they reach new lows in safety while working on the 97th floor. THREE MISSING LINKS (1938): The Stooges aren't exactly leading man material but that's why they call it acting! When Curly is cast as a gorilla and Larry and Moe as cavemen they go to Africa to shoot the film where a real gorilla teaches them the "method" to the madness.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 043396024472 Manufacturer No: 02447 |
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