Three Stooges - Healthy Wealthy & Dumb

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Summary: Classic Stooge Comedy.
Review: HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB is a collection of six classic Stooge shorts. The films all star the original stooges: Larry, Moe, and Curly. The films are unbelievable clear and crisp and are of the highest quality. The six films on this DVD are:

"Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb"--Curly wins a fortune in a jingle contest. The stooges decide to live it up in style. Three gold diggers find out about their good luck and attempt to steal the boys away, but just for their money. However, the stooges learn that Uncle Sam isn't very generous.

"Gents Without Cents"--in this story, the Stooges are a bunch of comedy performers trying to get their break in show business. They team up with girls in the apartment below and put on a great showstopper for the armed services. This film contains the famous "Niagra Falls" vaudeville bit.

"If a Body Meets a Body"--the boys spend a night in a house that appears to be haunted. This film seems like something Abbot and Costello would make, but the Stooges pull it off brilliantly. It makes me wish they would have made more comedies like this.

"Rockin' Thru the Rockies"--the Stooges are supposed to be guides and escorts for Nell's Belles, but on their way find themselves lost in the woods. They have to watch out for Indians and a snowstorm.

"Phony Express"--the Stooges are vagrants, but a town desperate for some law and order uses their wanted poster to make them into marshalls. Things go great until the bad guys discover the truth.

"Whoops, I'm an Indian"--the Stooges disguise themselves as Indians to hide out from a big man who has a big temper.

This is a great collection of classic, Stooge comedy. I specifically bought this DVD for "Gents Without Cents" (the Niagra Falls routine has haunted me all my life) and "If a Body Meets a Body", but the other features are just as great to watch.

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Summary: GREAT DVD!!!
Review: I love this DVD. All episodes are really clear. It's so clear that the shorts look like they were made yesterday. It's hard to believe that these shorts were made 60 years ago. They haven't aged a bit. All shorts are in wonderful condition. They couldn't be better. And another thing. Columbia used a magnificent print for the short "Healthy, Wealthy, And Dumb". The VHS version gave me a headache because it was too bright. But this DVD offers all 6 shorts in its best material ever. All 6 shorts are Curly. That's another good thing about this DVD. So go ahead. Take it from a major stooge fan. Buy this DVD. I guarantee 100% that you won't be sorry.

P.S. If any of you already have these 6 shorts on VHS, buy this DVD anyway. The quality is 100 times better.

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Summary: More classic stooge mayhem
Review: In Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb, Curly wins the Coffin Nail cigarette contest. The boys go out and spend the prize, and wreck a fancy hotel room before they find out that the prize has vanished because of taxes. More good stuff from the stooges.

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Summary: Uncle Mortimer and the fountain pen
Review: Nice DVD, but can anyone remind me: What was the title of the episode with Shemp and the fountain pen that wrote under whipped cream? Has anyone released this yet? If so, what collection? Thanks.

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Summary: Uncle Mortimer and the fountain pen
Review: Nice DVD, but can anyone remind me: What was the title of the episode with Shemp and the fountain pen that wrote under whipped cream? Has anyone released this yet? If so, what collection? Thanks.

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Summary: DISORDER IN THE HEALTHY AND DUMB SCOTCH
Review: PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935) - Great film. I think this is their first of many "society" shorts. Most Stooge fans already know the story - when Moe did the stunt in which he falls off a table, and crashes to the floor, the stunt wasn't so safe, and Moe ended up with several broken ribs. He stood up after the fall, and was able to speak several words, before fainting, and had to be hospitalized immediately. I admire Moe's courage and commitment to try his best continuing the scene despite all the pain he was in.

DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936) - Ah yes. When you think of classi Stooge shorts, this is usually the first short that pops in people's minds. An all time classic with non-stop memorable and hilarious moments, the best being Curly's classic "take off your hat" routine. One of the Stooges' best, and a true classic.

HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB (1938) - Why's this short so darn bright on the video tape??? You can hardly see anything. Anyway, another great short. Funniest scene is when Curly lays on top of the canopy bed, and the whole thing crashes to little pieces. That scene always kills me.

Would've been a 4 star tape if the visual quality hadda been better. I had to dock a point. Seriously, that print of HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB gives me a headache.

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Summary: DISORDER IN THE HEALTHY AND DUMB SCOTCH
Review: PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935) - Great film. I think this is their first of many "society" shorts. Most Stooge fans already know the story - when Moe did the stunt in which he falls off a table, and crashes to the floor, the stunt wasn't so safe, and Moe ended up with several broken ribs. He stood up after the fall, and was able to speak several words, before fainting, and had to be hospitalized immediately. I admire Moe's courage and commitment to try his best continuing the scene despite all the pain he was in.

DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936) - Ah yes. When you think of classi Stooge shorts, this is usually the first short that pops in people's minds. An all time classic with non-stop memorable and hilarious moments, the best being Curly's classic "take off your hat" routine. One of the Stooges' best, and a true classic.

HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB (1938) - Why's this short so darn bright on the video tape??? You can hardly see anything. Anyway, another great short. Funniest scene is when Curly lays on top of the canopy bed, and the whole thing crashes to little pieces. That scene always kills me.

Would've been a 4 star tape if the visual quality hadda been better. I had to dock a point. Seriously, that print of HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB gives me a headache.

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Summary: Pretty good tape.
Review: This is an excellent tape. PARDON MY SCOTCH is a very funny short. DISORDER IN THE COURT is in my top 5 favorite Curly films. Excellent gags, fast-paced scenes, and the funniest Stooge here turns out to be Larry. HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB is a true classic. There's a great scene where Curly mistakes a canopy for the top of a bunk bed. Great short.

A great tape, worth adding to your collection.

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Summary: A few good shorts.
Review: This is an okay DVD. There are three shorts I like, and three that bore me. I enjoyed HEALTHY WEALTHY AND DUMB, IF A BODY MEETS A BODY, and ROCKIN' THRU THE ROCKIES. WHOOPS I'M AN INDIAN, GENTS WITHOUT CENTS, and PHONY EXPRESS bored me. Still an okay DVD.

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Summary: The Boys are Back!!!
Review: You have to love these guys. Their comic genius will last long after we have departed. Columbia needs to speed up the process of getting these DVD's out to the fans. They need to also put these into box sets. Columbia screwed the Stooges when they were alive, now they are doing it to us. Only a few shorts on each DVD! There is no excuse for that! DVD is all about being able to hold much more than video. This is just like paramount is doing to the original "Star Trek" series. Dragging it out so that you buy in as little increments as possible for the most dollars! Maybe by the time we get to the next turn of the century all of their work will finally be out.