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(More customer reviews)For those who want a bit more than a television commercial to understand why the Three Stooges are priceless, the trio of comedy shorts the boys made for Columbia collected on this videotape can help make the case:
"Movie Maniacs" is a short from 1936 that starts with the Stooges stowing away on a train bound for Hollywood. There are a couple of good routines involving making breakfast and ironing their clothes before the boys arrive at Carnation Pictures are mistaken for studio executives. This means that they can provide their collective 2 cents with regards to the love scene being filmed by a director (named Swinehardt). The result is that everybody quits and Curly has to play the female lead romanced by Larry, while Moe directs. Somehow this classic ends up with the boys being chased by a lion in a car, which makes perfect sense in the world of the Stooges.
"Dutiful But Dumb" is a 1941 effort with a movie connection in that the Stooges are photographers for "Whack" magazine, out to get a picture of movie star Percival De Pusyter and his new bride. This does not go well, which is why the boys end up in Vulgaria, where shooting photographs gets you shot by a firing squad. Fortunately Curly knows about a rule of international law regarding last smokes. The best bit in this one has Curly crawling inside a large radio to broadcast the news, but his encounter with the oyster in his oyster soup is almost as good. The bits have little to do with the plot, but that is par for the course with these two-reelers.
"Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise" is a 1939 short where the boys start off working on a farm for food. This one actually has a running gag in that every time Curly wishes for something, it comes to pass. This gets all mixed up with the fact that some crooks are buying land from poor farmers who do not know that their land sits on oil. The Stooges come to the rescue of a kindly window and her three daughters (April, May, and June), and the rescuing actually works out. Not a classic, but close.
Overall, this trio of Stooges comedies makes for one of the better video collections in this series. You have one classic and two above average efforts from the Moe-Larry-Curly period, and several great bits by Curly, which is always a plus.
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