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Summary: Forget the other reviewer, it's great!
Review: I don't know if the other reviewer in Chicago saw the same DVD as I have, but don't be deterred by his questionable review. I didn't notice any graininess as he described (he must have been toying with a magnifying glass on his high-definition tv). Columbia, as they have in the last three Stooge releases, has used high quality masters, if not the original negative, for these compilations, and it is obvious. The sound (although somewhat muted) and picture are excellent. As for the skits, they are, as usual, hilarious! The only complaint I have is that "Hoi Polloi" and "Half-Wits Holiday" are virtually indistinguishable from each other, with the same identical story and some exact lines with each other. Otherwise, don't be afraid to buy this disc, you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Forget the other reviewer, it's great!
Review: I don't know if the other reviewer in Chicago saw the same DVD as I have, but don't be deterred by his questionable review. I didn't notice any graininess as he described (he must have been toying with a magnifying glass on his high-definition tv). Columbia, as they have in the last three Stooge releases, has used high quality masters, if not the original negative, for these compilations, and it is obvious. The sound (although somewhat muted) and picture are excellent. As for the skits, they are, as usual, hilarious! The only complaint I have is that "Hoi Polloi" and "Half-Wits Holiday" are virtually indistinguishable from each other, with the same identical story and some exact lines with each other. Otherwise, don't be afraid to buy this disc, you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Two excellent shorts.
Review: I don't think NUTTY BUT NICE is very funny. It's tender like CASH AND CARRY, which I don't like. This short is also nutty. I can see how it got it's title. However, the pie scene at the end makes the whole short worth watching.SLIPPERY SILKS is a much better short, or should I say an excellent short. This includes the Stooges first pie fight, even though they really used creampuffs. THE SITTER DOWNERS is another great short. This idea is taken from Laurel and Hardy's THE FINISHING TOUCH, but I think this is better. Overall, a good tape worth adding to your collection.
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Summary: Another collection of slapstick
Review: Moe,Larry and silly Curly are performing their slapstick routines as usual in this collection. In HOI POLLOI,the Stooges are sanitation workers who volunteer to be transformed into "gentlemen". Well,more dignified and sophisticated gentlemen. In NUTTY BUT NICE,the Stooges search for a missing bank cashier whose child daughter is sickened by his disappearance. In A-DUCKING THEY DID GO,the Stooges join a duck-hunting club,which is bogus because it was initiated by swindlers. In THE SITTER-DOWNERS,the Stooges' weddings to their girlfriends are postponed until the Stooges build their fiancees their dreamhouse. In FALSE ALARMS,the Stooges are firemen who steal the captain's new auto. HALF-WITS HOLIDAY,a remake of HOI POLLOI,was Curly's last as a Stooge. He became ill during filming of the last scene. He lived five years and eight months after this film was made. Also,when the Stooges are told to do what the professor's daughter does,Curly applies the lipstick to his lips just like she did. After Moe applies the cosmetic to Curly's tongue,he eats it,entirely! Also that film would be re-used for the following shorts with Shemp(Moe's and Curly's brother who replaced Curly after this film):PEST MAN WINS and SCHEMING SCHEMERS. There was a second re-make entitled PIES AND GUYS with Joe Besser,made after the deaths of Curly and Shemp.
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Summary: Another collection of slapstick
Review: Moe,Larry and silly Curly are performing their slapstick routines as usual in this collection. In HOI POLLOI,the Stooges are sanitation workers who volunteer to be transformed into "gentlemen". Well,more dignified and sophisticated gentlemen. In NUTTY BUT NICE,the Stooges search for a missing bank cashier whose child daughter is sickened by his disappearance. In A-DUCKING THEY DID GO,the Stooges join a duck-hunting club,which is bogus because it was initiated by swindlers. In THE SITTER-DOWNERS,the Stooges' weddings to their girlfriends are postponed until the Stooges build their fiancees their dreamhouse. In FALSE ALARMS,the Stooges are firemen who steal the captain's new auto. HALF-WITS HOLIDAY,a remake of HOI POLLOI,was Curly's last as a Stooge. He became ill during filming of the last scene. He lived five years and eight months after this film was made. Also,when the Stooges are told to do what the professor's daughter does,Curly applies the lipstick to his lips just like she did. After Moe applies the cosmetic to Curly's tongue,he eats it,entirely! Also that film would be re-used for the following shorts with Shemp(Moe's and Curly's brother who replaced Curly after this film):PEST MAN WINS and SCHEMING SCHEMERS. There was a second re-make entitled PIES AND GUYS with Joe Besser,made after the deaths of Curly and Shemp.
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Summary: Another great Stooges DVD
Review: Nutty but Nice is a great DVD containing six Stooges shorts, all of them with Curly. "A Ducking They Did Go" has the Stooges selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club with a great ending. "Hoi Polloi" and "Half-Wits Holiday" are virtually the same short as the trio are used to see if environment or heredity determines your social behavior. "Higher Than A Kite" has the Stooges as mechanics who end up hiding in a bomb and landing in a Nazi headquarters. "False Alarms" has Moe, Larry, and Curly as firemen trying to get out of work to meet up with their girls. "Nutty but Nice" has them searching for a little girl's kidnapped father. All six of these shorts are very funny with several classic Stooge routines like AMA, Amalgamated Morons Association, and two classic pie fights. All of the shorts are cleaned up and look great so don't miss Nutty but Nice.
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Summary: Another great Stooges DVD
Review: Nutty but Nice is a great DVD containing six Stooges shorts, all of them with Curly. "A Ducking They Did Go" has the Stooges selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club with a great ending. "Hoi Polloi" and "Half-Wits Holiday" are virtually the same short as the trio are used to see if environment or heredity determines your social behavior. "Higher Than A Kite" has the Stooges as mechanics who end up hiding in a bomb and landing in a Nazi headquarters. "False Alarms" has Moe, Larry, and Curly as firemen trying to get out of work to meet up with their girls. "Nutty but Nice" has them searching for a little girl's kidnapped father. All six of these shorts are very funny with several classic Stooge routines like AMA, Amalgamated Morons Association, and two classic pie fights. All of the shorts are cleaned up and look great so don't miss Nutty but Nice.
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Summary: VERY SOLID THREE STOOGES DVD
Review: Nutty but nice is a very strong compilation Stooges DVD. It features one bona fide classic with Hoi Polloi and several more great early Curlys.
"Hoi Polloi" - 1935 - the Classic Stooges plot with A professor betting that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. a plot Used many times, this one is the best!
"Half-Wits Holiday" - 1947 - This is a complete remake of Hoi Polloi and unfortunately Curly suffered a stroke while filming this one and he's not even seen during the last half of this short making it bittersweet.
"Higher than a Kite - 1943 - The stooges are mechanics working for the in England. After wrecking an officers car they hide out in a sewer pipe which turns out to a bomb. They are dropped over Germany and Find themselves behind enemy lines. Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While General Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
"False Alarms" 1936 - The stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in trouble, they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their jobs. Curly sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. She has two friends who need dates, but the only way Curly can get Moe and Larry out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The firetruck leaves without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captains new car to make it to the call first. They manage to get Curly and get back to the station, but in doing so wreck the car and must leave on the run.
"Nutty But Nice" 1940 - The stooges are waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. The girl's father is a banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer up the girl, the stooges go out looking for the father and by a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing man.
"A Ducking they Did Go" -1939 - The stooges are tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony Canvas Back duck hunting club. They end up selling all the memberships to the police department causing the con-men to skip town. The stooges are stuck at a hunting lodge full of cops and the mayor but no ducks!
Hoi Polloi is certainly one of the most famous stooges shorts and A Ducking they Did Go and False Alarms are both excellent as well. VEry good Stooges DVD!
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Summary: THE NUTTY SITTER DOWNER SILKS
Review: THE SITTER DOWNERS (1937) is a great film which has the boys on a sit-down strike when their future father-in-law won't allow the boys to marry his daughters. When the boys win the strike, they instantly get married to their sweethearts, but when they find out that they have to build their own house, but boys again go out on another sit-down strike. The first half is great, and the second half with the house building is even better. The ending is one of the funniest endings to a Stooge short. NUTTY BUT NICE (1940) - Some think this short copies off of CASH AND CARRY in it's tender-heartedness, but I think this short is better. It's faster paced, and the tender-hearted scenes don't take too much away from the manic slapstick this time. The fight scene towards the end is great, too. Watch for Curly to goof and miss Moe's face at the end when he's supposed to hit him with cream. SLIPPERY SILKS (1936) - Excellent. A lot of hilarious scenes, and there's a hilarious cream puff fight at the end. Features the first pastry fight ever recorded on Stooge film.
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Summary: Wait a second. These Three Stooges comedies have plots!
Review: The three Columbia shorts collected on "Nutty But Nice" are pretty funny, but what is surprising is that on one Three Stooges videotape you would find that all three stories have a plot that pretty much exists from start to finish. There are a whole lot of Three Stooges comedies where the end has nothing to do with the finish, but that is not the case here: "The Sitter-Downers" is a 1937 comedy that find the Stooges in love, with three sisters of course, but their father rejects their marriage proposals so the boys stage a strike. To our surprise, it works and the boys decide who gets which girl by drawing names out of a hat (Curly gets "Stetson"). The payoff for this comedy is when the trio of happy couples is given a free house to live in: the catch is that it comes in a kit and the Stooges need to assemble it. Which they do and it looks pretty good--until the final shot. "Nutty but Nice" comes from 1940 and starts off with the Stooges operating a restaurant but the main part of this is their efforts to cheer up a little girl who is sad because her father disappeared from the bank with $300,000 worth of bonds. But even with the Stooges dressed up as little girls doing their lollipop routine, they cannot get her to crack a smile. So they decide to track down the missing dad. This is actually a happy ending to this one and, in an even bigger surprise, we actually get back to the restaurant where the whole thing started. "Slippery Silks" is a 1936 comedy where the Stooges start off as antique restorers. That might be the strangest job they have had, but of course they end up destroying a rare Chinese cabinet. So the next thing the boys are doing is making dresses at Madame de France's gown shop. The antique restoration (or destruction) from the first reel is combined with the dress making from the second reel as the Stooges design clothes that look like furniture (complete with the drawers). I am still amazed at the sense of narrative completeness demonstrated all three of these comedies. Two of the three had the story and screenplay done by Ewart Adamson, but "Nutty but Nice" was written by Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler. Sorry, but that is the best explanation I can come up for this strange occurrence.
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