The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
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Actor: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe HowardBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 396 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Black & White; Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; Full Screen; Original recording remastered; Widescreen;
Movie Reviews of The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
Movie Review: More adventures of Moe,Larry and Curly
Summary: 5 Stars
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).
Summary of The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
The Golden Age of the Three Stooges continues in this exceptional third chronological collection. These 23 shorts from 1940-1942 are all digitally remastered for the highest quality in sight and sound, and this collection is even more special as it features an historical first: Moe Howard was the first American to portray Hitler on film, in 1940's "You Nazty Spy", which was Moe's personal favorite. It also contains the outstanding 1941 sequel, I'll Never Heil Again. Moe as a vicious dictator - who would have thought?! With biting satire and merciless wit, the Three Stooges gave the world a brave new perspective on the absurdity of evil and the world powers of the time. This collection also contains Curly's favorite, "A Plumbing We Will Go", which features the brilliant sight gag of a burst of water flowing from a new television set just as it's broadcasting a live report from Niagara Falls. The Three Stooges Collection Volume Three will soitenly keep you entertained as Larry, Moe, and Curly portray a variety of characters in their own inimitable way.Similar DVD Movies
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