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Whistle Stopper - The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
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List Price: $24.96
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: The Three Stooges
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396263826
Format: Black & White
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2008-08-26
Running Time: 396
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Summary: I can't believe my eyes
Comment: These are the best transfers I have ever seen. I recently compared my video copy of "A Plumbing We Will Go" with the version on Vol. 3 of this DVD series...
All I can say is BUY THESE NOW!!
Instead of scratched copies, these collections have been done with much love and care, and in chronological order as well. I can't believe my eyes. These are BEAUTIFUL!!
Vol. 4 comes out in October, but Shemp fans will have to be patient. He won't show up until Vol. 5...
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Summary: More adventures of Moe,Larry and Curly
Comment: Brothers Moe and Curly Howard and Larry Fine were at the peak of their popularity around 1940 and except for one subsequent short,THREE BLIND MICE was the signature theme. In 1939,the trio filmed YOU NAZTY SPY when Adolph Hitler was a mad dictator,just like Saddam Hussein was in recent years. The trio are putting up wallpaper in a politician's dining room and he elects them to become world figures(Moe Hailstone,the ideal Hitler double,Larry Goalstone as Minister of Propaganda and Curly Pebble as Field Marshall). In ROCKIN' THRU THE ROCKIES,the boys are stranded in the woods with three sister actresses and their mother,who despises the frequently misbehaving Stooges. In A PLUMBING WE WILL GO,the boys are tried in court for vagrancy and pose as plumbers(and of course,wreck havoc) when they learn about a leak in a woman's home(later remade as VAGABOND LOAFERS then SCHEMING SCHEMERS). In NUTTY BUT NICE,the boys search for a morose,ailing girl's missing father. In HOW HIGH IS UP?,the boys seek employment in construction,beginning work on the 97th floor of a skyscraper. Curly quipps,"Three of the best riveters who ever riveted!". Of course,the boys' work is messy. In FROM NURSE TO WORSE,to receive money from an insurance company,Curly,the "Mad Dog Man" is involuntarily chosen to pretend he is a dog and act nuts. In NO CENSUS NO FEELING,the boys are census takers,even at a football game,and play some bridge at a woman's home. In CUCKOO CAVALIERS,the boys retire from seafood retail with plans to open a saloon and instead are given a beauty salon(the Hispanic owner who's paid $300 for his business says "saloon"!). He is angry when he finds three female friends bald when they wanted their hairs bleached. In BOOBS IN ARMS,the boys peddle greeting cards and meet a woman who's crying because she believes her husband no longer loves her. Later,the boys join the army with the husband as the drill seargeant(footage later re-used for DIZZY PILOTS). SO LONG MR. CHUMPS features the boys planning to get a falsely charged inmate out of jail(the man's girlfriend was in tears). In DUTIFUL BUT DUMB,the boys are photographers sent to Vulgaria to safely obtain a photo of a ray machine(everyone else who attempted was shot since photography was illegal there). In ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE,the boys as janitors,cure a man's toothache pain and he takes them home to his wife as her "refugees" named Frankie(Curly),Johnny(Moe) and Mabel(Larry,coincidentally,his wife's name). I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN is a sequel to YNS. Hailstone,Goalstone and Pebble are scheming again and playing rough with other world figures. In AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE,the boys are ice peddlers and fill in for a chef for a birthday dinner party after he and his partner quit. In IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE,the Stooges,in jail for murder,meet and marry three beautiful girls who later boss them around,making them wear fancy clothes,take dancing lessons and baths 10 times a day! The triple wedding takes place while the Stooges are still in jail. At the party,there's gooey pie fights and while the girls planned to divorce their husbands to reunite with their longlost fiances,they remain married to the Stooges. The boys,as tree surgeons, search for a rare tree on an island in SOME MORE OF SAMOA. The boys search for gold with Curly's new invention,a gold-finder(the boys' mother was played by a male actor in drag) in CACTUE MAKES PERFECT. An elderly lady is on the verge of losing her hotel in LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD. So the boys provide adequate entertainment. Curly dons a magician's jacket,filled with gags,identical to Curly's own. In WHAT'S THE MATADOR?,the boys travel to Mexico to do a bullfighting act. Larry and Moe don a two-person bull costume and Curly serves as the silly matador! This is later remade as SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS with Joe Besser,which in fact was the last released short in the series. In MATRI-PHONY,a young woman about to be appointed empress as well as an emperor's wife makes her escape with Curly posing as her. In THREE SMART SAPS,the boys' fiancees are sad that their prison warden father is an inmate(spitefully imprisoned) himself. The prison is being run by racketeers and gangsters who are throwing a party in the dining room and with a handful of photos taken by the Stooges,the father is released and the racketeers and gangsters are placed behind bars. So the three couples tie the knot and are off to their honeymoons. In EVEN AS I.O.U.,the boys sell(expired) horse-racing programs and rip off an interested passer-by. When the man yells for a cop to place the Stooges under arrest,they run away,meet and befriend a talking horse who becomes a father. In SOCK-A-BYE BABY,the Stooges take in an abandoned baby and believe me,next to the 1987 blockbuster film THREE MEN AND A BABY,fatherhood has never been funnier. When the trio discover in the newspaper that another baby has been kidnapped and held for ransom,they believe it was Jimmy,the one in their care. Jimmy is happily reunited with his mother and her policeman husband who I believe is Jimmy's father(the couple had a heated argument the previous evening). Jimmy was given away by his mother while she was resolving issues with his father. I dedicate this item to the memories of Moses "Moe" Harry Horwitz(1897-1975),Louis "Larry" Fineberg(1092-1975) and Jerome Lester "Curly" Horwitz(1903-1952).
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Summary: GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: Best comedy team ever. Looks like they came out today. keep them coming. jeff phila.
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Summary: One step further?
Comment: A big Thank You to Sony for giving the Three Stooges fans what we've wanted for a long time with the DVD releases of the Stooges shorts [no pun intended!] in their original release order. I would like to request that for future volumes that Sony's research people locate any existing news reel footage, guest appearances in other film shorts, etc, that could be bonus discs for all us loyal fans and product purchasers!
Also, a DVD collection of the films that the boys made with their old boss, Ted Healy, would make a wonderful addition to this marvelous collection!
Thank you, Sony? Certainey!!! Now, spread out!!!
Donna Tindall
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Summary: BluRay?
Comment: can someone please tell me if this is coming out on BluRay?I thought I saw on DVD Town that these 2 discs were in HD,Thanks,Andy
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The Three Stooges--political satirists? Laugh if you will, but as demonstrated by the shorts "You Nazty Spy" and "I'll Never Heil Again"--both of which are featured on this two-disc, digitally remastered set--the boys were the first act in Hollywood to bring attention to the Nazi threat in the days prior to America's involvement in World War II. "Nazty," which was released in 1940 some nine months before Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and 1941's "Heil," have Moe donning the greasepaint mustache to play Moe Hailstone, a dull-witted wallpaper hanger who runs amok as the dictator of Moronica along with his sidekicks Larry (the Goebbels stand-in) and Curly (Mussolini, natch). If the hijinks aren't exactly drawing room humor, one must still marvel at the foresight of the team and director Jules White for conceiving the idea, and by the sheer ballsiness of the Howard brothers and Fine--all Jews--taking the air out of the most insidious anti-Semitic figure of the period. One might also view 1940's "Boobs in Arms," with the boys accidentally joining the Army, as another riff on the absurdity of the slowly mounting war. Of course, the Stooges were better known for their wild slapstick comedy, and Volume 3 of this long-overdue collection presents some of the funniest shorts in their lengthy careers. Chief among these is "What's the Matador," which pits the boys' bullfighting routine against some real live beef, and the delirious "Sock-A-Bye Baby," with the Stooges attempting to care for an abandoned child. Elsewhere, the two main themes of the shorts--the Stooges as agents of fair play, as seen in "Nutty But Nice" (Curly finds a kidnapped man by yodeling) and "So Long Mr. Chumps" (the boys free an unjustly jailed man)--or menaces to society, as shown by the devastation wreaked at a dinner party in "An Ache in Every Stake," is in full effect. As with the two previous volumes, the shorts featured here (eight of which have never been available on DVD) are presented in chronological order and pristine condition, which soitenly makes up for decades of neglect from previous fly-by-night Stooge releases. --Paul Gaita
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