The Three Stooges - Meet the Baron/The Gold Raiders
by Edward Bernds, Walter Lang
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Actor: Edna May Oliver, Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Ted Healy, Zasu PittsDirector: Edward Bernds, Walter Lang
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Allen Rivkin
Writer: Arthur Kober
Writer: Elwood Ullman
Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz
Writer: Norman Krasna
Writer: P.J. Wolfson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Gold CD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Three Stooges - Meet the Baron/The Gold Raiders
DVD Review: So-so and So-so
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a double-feature DVD, part of a box set, so let's deal with the two titles individually. Both feature The Three Stooges, one with Curly, the other with Shemp. But neither actually STARS the Stooges.
First, MEET THE BARON (1933)), starring Jack Pearl as his Baron Munchausen character ("Vass you dere, Charlie?") and Jimmy Durante as his sidekick, Edna May Oliver as the dean of an all-girls Cuddle College, and ZaSu Pitts as a maid. Ted Healy and His Stooges (with Curly being billed as Jerome Howard) play maintenance men who spend their onscreen time slapping one another and chasing the girls. Not all that amusing.
Then GOLD RAIDERS (1951), a very strange hybrid. It's mostly a Western, starring an over-the-hill (and overweight) George O'Brien playing a character named George O'Brien, a former U.S. Marshall now working as an insurance salesman-cum-all-around good guy. The Stooges (this time with Shemp) are peddlers selling junk all over the West. What separates this from other comedy Westerns (or Western comedies) like The Marx Brothers' GO WEST or Laurel & Hardy's WAY OUT WEST is that people are actually shot to death in this one. There are several shootouts and people are killed (though no blood is ever visible). This makes the Stooge segments seem very much out of place. (Or, conversely, if you regard it as a Three Stooges comedy, then all the shooting is equally out of place.)
I'm not saying this double feature should not have been released. On the contrary, I welcome any and all Stooges films, features or shorts. I'm collecting everything of theirs that comes on the market. But that still doesn't mean that everything is a gem!
DVD Review: Your Not A Stooge Fan Without These DVD.
Summary: 5 Stars
Ted Healy and his Stooges are great DVDs. To see the Three Stooges before they were stars was awesome to see. My dad got me into the Stooges and now I'm hooked. No one can ever fill their shoes. To see Jimmy Durante in action in the same movie as the Stooges makes a great DVD. Your not a Stooge fan if you don't have Ted Healy and His Stooges DVDs. Be a total Stooge fan and buy these DVDs.DVD Review: stooges
Summary: 5 Stars
the three stooges you can get alot of laughts out of them and you can watch there dvds over and over againDVD Review: Well Worth the Price.
Summary: 3 Stars
MEET THE BARON. What a cast. MGM threw in enough players to make the film even the plot is hard to discern. No matter,the film charges along with enough sub-plots to keep one's interest.The weak link seemed to me to be Jack Pearl whose (German ?)accent began to be rather annoying after a time. Worth watching twice to find out just what is going on. GOLD RAIDERS. Two films here. A genuine Cowboy film (You already know the plot)and a Three Stooges film. This isn't a criticism they are both worth watching even though the twain rarely meet. Yes - a worthwhile pairing - enjoy! I did.DVD Review: Great movies for non-Stooges fans like myself
Summary: 5 Stars
I like GOLD RAIDERS because it is a good western. It is almost like a Lone Ranger episode, and several of the actors I recognize from old Lone Ranger episodes, including Sheila Ryan. Much of this movie has no footage of those awful Three Stooges. Sheila Ryan was also on the under-rated Laurel and Hardy movies GREAT GUNS and A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO, and it is nice to see her in this movie.
MEET THE BARON has nice performances by Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante,Zasu Pitts, and Edna May Oliver, and is a great old comedy, and I didn't have to suffer from too much Three Stooges footage.
I bought this as a three-DVD set of "classic comedians" (the other two discs were Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello) and I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed the "Stooges" films. So if you like old westerns and classic comedies you might like this DVD even if you don't care for the Three Stooges.
Description of The Three Stooges - Meet the Baron/The Gold Raiders
Westward-ho-ho-ho! There's a wagonload of sundries and snake oil rolling toward Red Mesa and ? since Larry, Shemp and Moe hold the horses' reins ? there's a load of slaphappy shenanigans, too, in the way-out Western Gold Raiders. Barrel-chested cowboy icon George O'Brien adds heroics in a galloping battle with robbers. Meanwhile, with exploding cigars, a demonstration of the trio's "miracle eyeglasses" and a medical exam with the boys posing as MDs, the Stooges show how the jest was won. Next, in one of their earliest screen appearances, the Stooges Meet the Baron. Radio comic Jack Pearl (with support from Jimmy Durante) plays the bogus baron on a speaking tour, and Larry, Curly (billed as Jerry) and Moe play janitors at the all-girl Cuddle College. What? No hot water in the shower? The boys will be right up!General DVDs
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