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| The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942 | 
 enlarge | Actor: The Three Stooges
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 169
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Original Recording Remastered, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 396
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 26382
UPC: 043396263826
EAN: 0043396263826
ASIN: B001AXOFR0
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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The Three Stooges--political satirists? Laugh if you will, but as demonstrated by the shorts "You Nazty Spy" and "I'll Never Heil Again"--both of which are featured on this two-disc, digitally remastered set--the boys were the first act in Hollywood to bring attention to the Nazi threat in the days prior to America's involvement in World War II. "Nazty," which was released in 1940 some nine months before Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and 1941's "Heil," have Moe donning the greasepaint mustache to play Moe Hailstone, a dull-witted wallpaper hanger who runs amok as the dictator of Moronica along with his sidekicks Larry (the Goebbels stand-in) and Curly (Mussolini, natch). If the hijinks aren't exactly drawing room humor, one must still marvel at the foresight of the team and director Jules White for conceiving the idea, and by the sheer ballsiness of the Howard brothers and Fine--all Jews--taking the air out of the most insidious anti-Semitic figure of the period. One might also view 1940's "Boobs in Arms," with the boys accidentally joining the Army, as another riff on the absurdity of the slowly mounting war. Of course, the Stooges were better known for their wild slapstick comedy, and Volume 3 of this long-overdue collection presents some of the funniest shorts in their lengthy careers. Chief among these is "What's the Matador," which pits the boys' bullfighting routine against some real live beef, and the delirious "Sock-A-Bye Baby," with the Stooges attempting to care for an abandoned child. Elsewhere, the two main themes of the shorts--the Stooges as agents of fair play, as seen in "Nutty But Nice" (Curly finds a kidnapped man by yodeling) and "So Long Mr. Chumps" (the boys free an unjustly jailed man)--or menaces to society, as shown by the devastation wreaked at a dinner party in "An Ache in Every Stake," is in full effect. As with the two previous volumes, the shorts featured here (eight of which have never been available on DVD) are presented in chronological order and pristine condition, which soitenly makes up for decades of neglect from previous fly-by-night Stooge releases. --Paul Gaita
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Wonderful! Sony Pictures Does It Again! October 10, 2008
I have to give Sony Pictures a lot of kudos...they stumbled a bit in the beginning by releasing some rather lackluster quality Stooges DVD's, but they finally listened to the fans, stepped up to the plate & delivered some real gems--what's even more appealing is that they've done it at a pretty reasonable price!
Volume Three represents the boys' mid-period shorts when they really hit their stride & became quite popular in the process. Every film is crystal clear & sharp on a regular TV, but if you watch it in HD, apart from being in black & white, you'd swear that they were filmed yesterday, that's how good they look!
Again, well done Sony Pictures!! Keep up the excellent work & keep them coming!!
 Good stooges Collection October 9, 2008
This dvd was a good Three Stooges collection. The Nazi short was what I actually purchased it for. It was worth it!
Highly recommend! October 9, 2008
Great entertainment and family fun! Excellent sound and picture quality. Get the entire Collection, Vols 1-4.
Like seeing a long lost friend October 3, 2008
I am certainly grateful that Sony has decided to rerelease The Stooges shorts in their entirety and in order of their original production date. Seeing these brilliantly remastered shorts again after so many years brought back old memories. There are some in this edition that I've probably seen a hundred times before, but each time I catch something I missed or had forgotten about. This is a purchase you can't go wrong with.
A Lifelong Fan's Opinion September 30, 2008
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
I have been watching the Stooges ever since they first appeared on television back in the 60's. I thought I had seen every episode of the shorts they made, I was wrong. In the Three Stooges Collection Volume 2
(which I also own as well as Volume 1) I never remembered seeing the epsode titled "Termites Of 1938". I was pleasantly surprised to see it.
I have gotten other Stooges dvd's in the past but either they were always the same 3 or 4 episodes that you have seen countless times before or they were poor quality recordings or they had some other Stooge related program on it that you really didn't really want. (like a documentary or cartoon)
If you are a Stooge fan as I am you will not regret buying these dvd's.
The quality is excellent. Both picture and sound are excellent. Even the oldest ones look amazingly "new". It is also great to see them in the order that they were filmed. You can see how the "Boys" fine tuned their
classic humor and routines by watching them in order.
As far as price I figure it comes out to about a buck an episode, or less. Where are you going to get this kind of classic iconic comedy for that kind of money ? My children (ages 19 and 23)can't wait for the episodes with Shemp. THANK YOU SONY PICTURES !!!
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