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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
Fabric Type: 0043396257993
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 40
Maximum Color Depth: Sony Pictures
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Sony Pictures
Pearl Type: 043396257993
Processor Count: 2
Total Firewire Ports: Sony Pictures
Total Metal Weight: 99
Total Parallel Ports: May 27, 2008
Total S Video Out Ports: 415 minutes
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Product Description:
Chronological collection of the Stooges' filmography.
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By 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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This collection has the stooges at their near best, when they have established their personalities and range of action yet still has the feel of fresh experimentation. Curly's health is still good and he is simply fabulous, byt far the funniest of the three. I have initiated my son into this volume, which we watched together 2 episodes at a time, to great laughter and enjoyment. Not only is this a window into the American culture of my childhood, but great male bonding.
Warmly recommended.
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The videos are great and have brought back many memories. My boys are now stooges fans.
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The Three Stooges shorts presented here run from January of 1937 with "Grips,Grunts and Groans" and end with December of 1939's "Three Sappy People".This issue like its' predecessor has been remastered beautifully in a Hi-Def transfer and onto DVD.They have never looked this good...ever.
This second issue sees the Stooges on the rise as far the quality of their material is concerned.While there are many good shorts and sequences up to and including this volume,one can see that many of these films were ... Read More
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This is a review for the second Three Stooges chronologically ordered two disc set
entitled The Three Stooges Vol 2: 1937-1939.
These two discs contain the 24 comedy shorts that Columbia Pictures released
during the years 1937, 1938 and 1939. These were the years that the Stooges really
found themselves with titles like "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb" and "Grips, Grunts and
Groans," as well as "Termites of 1938,"
While hitting their stride the Stooges, like ... Read More
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More great episodes appear on Volume 2. Sound and image Quality is excellent. The boys were in their stride.
There are some great lines of dialog in each short, as a kid didn't understand some of it, but I get the meaning of them now.
Look for Curly riding an INGO Bike in the short, Yes, We Have No Bonanza!.
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