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The Three Stooges Collection (Passport)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: D     Total Programming: C+

 

 

Recently, some of The Three Stooges shorts were issued in newly colorized versions, and even with al the advances in such a stupid process, the result still looked liked death painted over.  That stayed in my mind as I watched Koch’s Three Stooges Collection, which does not have the best picture or sound, but at least does not smear the work of the sometimes-changed comic trio.

 

This set offers a documentary on their history on DVD 1, then the following on the next DVDs:

 

DVD 2:

1)     Disorder In The Court (1936)

2)     Hollywood On Parade (1932)

3)     Knife Of The Party (1934, a pre-Stooges Shemp)

4)     Henry The Ache (1938, Shemp in a Bert Laur short spoof of Charles Laughton as Henry The Eighth)

DVD 3:

5)     Malice In The Palace (1949)

6)     Sing A Song Of Six Pants (1947)

7)     Brideless Groom (1947)

8)     Camel Comedy Caravan (1950 appearance on the Ed Wynn Show)

 

 

The last two DVDs offer several episodes each of the 1965 animated New Three Stooges cartoon series that is still enjoyed today, foreran the awful Bionic Stooges animated series, but are also the same Stooges that appeared on The New Scooby Doo Movies.  This is the best collection on DVD by default, and each five-minutes-long animated segment is accompanied by a live action opening and closing by the Stooges of the time.  This really deserves its own restored DVD set, so nicely done are these shows, produced by one of Moe’s relatives and funded by the Stooges themselves!  DVD 5 also has the Warner Bros. cartoon Hollywood Steps Out (1941), which offers characatures of The Stooges among the Hollywood stars sent up.

 

Though the picture and sound quality are very average, with some of it being even more problematic, this has enough of a diversity of Stooges materials that fans might want to get it temporarily until better versions are issued, especially if they have VHS bootlegs of the material.  The material in total did not need five DVDs, likely fitting on 2 or three, but that is the way it was issued and was issued in 2003.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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