The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948
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Actor: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp HowardBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 432 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948
DVD Review: The fifth volume of `THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION' would feature the final episodes featuring Curly Howard and a return of Shemp
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic slapstick comedy at its best. The Three Stooges will always be remembered and never forgotten!
I grew up watching "THE THREE STOOGES", during a time when classic B&W shorts were shown on television and I could remember coming home every lunch time to visit my grandparents during high school and catching the series on television and just enjoying the zany adventures of Moe, Curly and Larry plus Shemp who would highlight "THE THREE STOOGES" during the Columbia Pictures years (1934-1959).
There were a total of 190 shorts created for Columbia Pictures and in this fifth volume of "THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION", the following episodes are featured:
1946:
1. Beer Barrel Polecats
2. A Bird in the Head
3. Uncivil Warbirds
4. Three Troubledoers
5. Monkey Businessmen
6. Three Loan Wolves
7. G.I. Wanna Home
8. Rhythm and Weep
9. Three Little Pirates
1947:
1. Ball-Wits Holiday
2. Fright Night
3. Out West
4. Hold that Lion
5. Bridless Groom
6. Sing a Song of Six PAnts
7. All Gummed Up
1948:
1. Shivering Sherlocks
2. Pardon My Clutch
3. Squareheads of the Round Table
4. Fiddlers Three
5. The Hot Scots
6. Heavenly Daze
7. I'm a Monkey's Uncle
8. Mummy's Dummies
9. Crime on Their Hands
Within these three years, there are some definite classics that I was pleased to see in this collection.
A few of my favorites from this fifth volume include "Beer Barrel Polecats". Moe, Curly and Larry decide to make beer during prohibition and in the process get in trouble and end up in jail. What ensues is a hilarious episode with each men trying to find ways out of jail and each time they try to escape, they get caught and more and more years are tacked to their sentence.
In "A Bird in the Head", a mad scientist wants to transplant his gorilla's brain into Curly's head. And thus a cat and mouse chase as the mad scientist and a gorilla go after the Stooges.
"Monkey Businessman" features Moe, Curly and Larry who meet a doctor who is scamming their patients by making up illnesses or injuries thus making the patient pay more and more money. But with Moe, Curly and Larry visiting the doctor, the three prove to be more than the doctor can handle.
In 1947's "Half-Wits Holiday", the episode was one of the most hilarious episodes as two doctors bet if one of them can take three morons and prepare him for upper society. To see the three try to behave classy in front of everyone but yet making major mistakes. As hilarious as this short film was, unfortunately this episode became the final episode to star Curly who suffered a stroke while filming.
With Curly needing to get better after his stroke, Moe asked his brother Shemp to come back to the series for the next episode titled "Fright Night". The episode would mark the return of Shemp (who was an original member of the trio when the Stooges were a Vaudeville act back in the 1920's). Shemp already had a successful film career and was reluctant to join the group but knowing that his brother's depended on "THE THREE STOOGES" for their career, he took the job with the assumption that he would leave when Curly got better.
The return of Shemp would feature episodes that were just as hilarious as before. Although, Curly was a hard act to replace, Shemp was just as hilarious and in "Fright Night", the guys help train a fighter for a boxing match while Shemp was more or less a body bag for the fighter. But in the episode, with the mafia expecting the Stooges to make their fighter lose, this sets up a hilarious fight between the stooges and gangsters.
In the episode "Hold that Lion", this episode would mark the first episode to feature Moe, Larry, Shemp and Curly. Although, Curly made a cameo in that short, Curly would never return to the "THREE STOOGES" as his health continued to deteriorate and would pass away less than five years later.
In "Heavenly Daze", Shemp who has departed returns back to Earth as an invisible angel and his job is to reform Lary and Moe. This episode was interesting as it utilized fire effects.
And another favorite is "I'm a Monkey's Uncle" which features Moe getting a date with a beautiful cavewoman and sets up his brothers to date her sisters. A wild and hilarious episode as the ex-boyfriends want their women back and thus a battle ensues between the ex-boyfriends and the new boyfriends for who will become the boyfriends of the women.
VIDEO & AUDIO QUALITY:
The re-releases of "THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION" features all episodes digitally remastered and in their original release order. In essence, the video quality is black and white and but because of it's age, it still holds up very well. Some episodes feature mild lighting fluctuations and grain since it was on film but overall, the video quality holds up. Video is presented in 1:33:1 full screen.
As for audio, the audio is featured in Dolby Digital Mono in English with closed captions for subtitles.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Unfortunately there are no special features included in this volume.
JUDGMENT CALL:
"THE THREE STOOGES COLLECTION" vol. 5 continues the classic slapstick comedy that the men were known for. The accidental hits to the faces, accidental eye poking, knocks on the head and slaps with their own audio effects plus each character's mannerisms definitely made "THE THREE STOOGES" quite a hilarious and fun classic.
Each episodes are short at nearly around 18 minutes long and you get 25 digitally remastered, hilarious shorts from 1946-1948 but most of all, this volume features the final ten episodes of Curly, the re-appearance of Shemp who would go on to do over 70 more shorts (15 in this volume) and of course the one and only episode featuring all four men together in the 1947 episode of "Hold that Lion".
For those of us who grew up within the decades that these episodes were shown on television, we were very fortunate to have the opportunity to enjoy these classics but unfortunately, unless you are looking hard for them, a lot of these classic shorts are not as easy to find (ie. "Our Gang/Little Rascals", "The Three Stooges", etc.).
I remember watching these episodes as a child through my teenager years and while watching this volume, I was watching it with my six-year-old son who was also laughing and fascinated by these "crazy" guys. So, it goes to show that even though these episodes are over 60-years-old, they are still timeless and hilarious now as it was then.
Also, during these years, production for the "THREE STOOGES" featured the guys in various locations, various set designs and obviously had a really good budget. This changes however in 1952, in which Columbia downsized their shorts division and thus started to reuse past footage to make episodes. So, fortunately for this volume, you still get the quality of each episode with better stage settings and locations.
If you are a big fan of "THE THREE STOOGES", the fifth collection is worth owning for the final Curly episodes, the return of Shemp and that rare episode to see all four together. Definitely a DVD volume that should definitely be in the collections of Stooges fans!
Description of The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948
THREE STOOGES COLLECTION:1946-1948 - DVD MovieFans of the Three Stooges tend to fall into two camps--those that love Shemp Howard, and those that, quite simply, do not, but one might believe that the pristine presentation of the 25 postwar shorts gathered in The Three Stooges Collection Volume 5 will sway even the most ardent anti-Shemp viewer to reversing his position. Shemp?s involvement with the Stooges goes back to their days in vaudeville with Ted Healy, whose questionable business practices forced him to leave the act and seek stardom on his own, which he achieved in one-reelers and features throughout the ?30s and ?40s. He returned to the fold after brother Curly suffered a series of strokes, which forced him to bow out of all shorts after 1947?s "Half-Wits Holiday" (on Disc One). Shemp became a full-time Stooge again in the trio?s 98th short, "Fright Night," and almost immediately established his persona in the group--a blend of Curly?s volcanic man-child and an easily amused goof whose skewed sense of humor drew the wrath of Moe. Whether his performance will win new converts remains to be seen, but some of his best work with the Stooges are compiled on this two-disc set, including "Brideless Groom" (Shemp must get married in 24 hours or lose his inheritance; Stooge supporting player Emil Sitka?s oft-quoted line, "Hold hands, you lovebirds!" from this short is overheard in Pulp Fiction); "Sing a Song of Six Pants" (the boys attempt to corral a fugitive bank robber for the reward money); "Shivering Sherlocks" and "Hot Scots" (two of their best haunted house scenarios, with the hunchback Angel in "Sherlocks" a bizarre highlight); and "Hold That Lion," which features the final screen appearance of Curly Howard in a surprise cameo. As with all previous Three Stooges Collection DVDs, Volume 5 includes a number of shorts that have never been released to disc, including "Lion," "All Gummed Up" and "Pardon My Clutch." --Paul Gaita
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