Soup to Nuts with the Three Stooges
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Actor: Charles Winninger, Frances McCoy, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Ted HealyBrand: FOX Home Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Soup to Nuts with the Three Stooges
DVD Review: A real smorgasbord
Summary: 4 Stars
Watching this film, it's hard to believe that once not so long ago it was first considered lost and then thought to be beyond the point of saving in its entirety. The restoration team did a super job, and the final product proves yet again how very important film restoration is. Sure this film isn't exactly a classic or a great movie, but film restoration is about saving all films, both classics and ordinary movies. It also helps that this movie is historically very important, even if it's not that great. One should also consider that most films from 1930 aren't considered classics today, let alone even remembered, because of how new talking pictures were and how crude, primitive, and stilted many of them appeared in comparison to silent films that had been being made just a few short years ago. And speaking of early sound films, the sound itself in this film does sometimes have that awkward crude feel that a lot of other early talkies do. However, given that this film was produced by Fox, a studio whose sound recording system was considered far superior to the ones used by RKO and Warner Brothers (so much so that the studio made a lot of money loaning it out to other studios), it might more logically be argued that the less than smooth sound quality might be due to how this film was considered lost and unsalvagable for so long, something that couldn't be fixed in the same way as a deteriorated pictorial quality.
The plot itself is little more than fluff. Ted Healy, the star of the picture, spends more time hanging around with his buddies at the fire department (Shemp, Moe, Larry, and Freddie Sanborn, a strange character who might best be described as a weirder version of Harpo Marx) than at his real job, whatever that might be (we're never exactly told what). He's also friends with Otto Schmidt, who runs a costume store that's gone bankrupt and is being taken over by Richard Carlson, who falls in love with Louise, Schmidt's young niece. Ted's obnoxious girlfriend Queenie also works at the shop, and is constantly telling Louise everything, even when it's bad news she's been warned by Ted to shield Louise from. Through some behind-the-scenes dealings, Ted and Carlson take actions to save Schmidt's store, though with all of the crazy goings-on in this movie, the store's future might not be so rosy after all.
Most people today are only going to be interested in this film for the screen debut of the Three Stooges, who aren't in all of the scenes. The real star is Ted Healy, their original straight man and leader. This film might not be very funny or even very good, but that doesn't subtract from the fact that the guy had a natural screen presence and a whole lot of talent. It's not fair to judge him by just this one film, particularly when most people alive today didn't get a chance to see him in vaudeville, where he was a huge star. Knowing about his success in vaudeville gives one a background in why he did have such a huge reputation and why he went on to become such a successful and highly-paid supporting comedian after he transitioned to the screen. Unfortunately he's gotten a very bad reputation over the years; he wasn't a perfect little angel, but he was also far from the complete monster and talentless shill that a lot of people routinely make him out to be without even knowing all of the facts. This film is also our only real chance to see what the vaudeville routine of Ted Healy and His Stooges (in their original lineup) looked like, in the scene at the costume party where they're entertaining the crowd. Another highlight of the film is that the women playing the Stooges' girlfriends whom they go to Coney Island with were their real-life wives, and that they weren't acting when they were on that fire truck. It's also a bit shocking to see how young they look in this film; Larry in particular (the youngest member of the original lineup by some years) looks really fresh-faced and doesn't even have his trademark haircut. Actually, none of them have their trademark haircuts in this picture!
This isn't a great movie, and it didn't get too many laughs from me, but it is historically important, and it does have more than a few good scenes in it. It may largely seem like little more than a curio, but at least it's not a boring curio. It's also one of those movies that gets better with repeated viewings.
Description of Soup to Nuts with the Three Stooges
Its bad enough that costume shop owner otto schmidt is headed for bankruptcy but one of his creditors is also being rejected by his neice louse. Things hit a wild climax whtn louise is pulled from a raging fire with help from the fabulous stooges. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/16/2007 Run time: 70 minutes Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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