The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945 | Three Stooges

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	The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945 Three Stooges Sony Pictures, 2008 average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The hilarious slapstick antics of Larry, Moe and Curly are back in digitally re-mastered versions of The Three Stooges shorts originally created from 1943 - 1945. The set includes, in original release order, all 21 complete shorts filmed during these years.

What the heck Amazon!??

So those of us who pre-ordered this title get to pay $21.99 and then you drop the price to $16.99 when the DVD hits the streets? Extremely bad business on your part. I won't be ordering from you again......

Update: A refund of $5.00 is being processed. Thank you Amazon for doing the right thing.....

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In defense of Amazon.com

First, in defense of Amazon.com, they credited me back my $5.00 or so for their cut in price from the pre-order price without me asking for it or even being aware of a price decrease. Amazon.com is extremely professional, honest and straightforward in dealing with us customers. I give top rating for Amazon.com.
Second, as for this Sony Three Stooges series, this review being on the 4th installment; the transfers are perfect, no editing out of scenes. I own all four installments and my daughter and I enjoy each one immensely. I hope Sony continues with the 5th and 6th and so on in the series as I am looking forward to the Shemp shorts. By the way, for you who don't know, these sets are all in consecutive order beginning with the 1934 shorts and progressing on from there. All in all a great set.
And again, thank you Amazon.com for your continued excellent service and professional dealings with your valued customers.

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Classic Stooges

This is yet another great Stooges set from Sony/Columbia. I can only hope the next set which should finish up the Curly shorts has some kind of extras. Interviews with the Stooges remaining relatives. Home movies. Interesting facts about them. Anything would be appreciated. Then it's on to the Shemp shorts.

Another Great Collection!

Sony Pictures is doing an excellent job with releasing the Stooges' films & have done so again in fine fashion with Volume Four! As described on the DVD box, these films represent the final years with Curly before a series of strokes forced him to retire from the act in 1946. This is evidenced in the last couple of shorts from 1945, especially in "If A Body Meets A Body", where it's painfully evident by watching Curly that his mannerisms have slowed & his speech has begun to slur.

Hopefully Sony will continue with the remarkable roll they've been on in releasing the shorts in order, especially the ones with Shemp shorts & even with Joe Besser.

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Yet another volume of the masters of Comedy.

These shorts never get old no matter how many times you view them. Even though there is a noticeable decline in health for Curly in these later shorts, he is still the undisputed king of The Three Stooges themselves. The Stooges best and funniest shorts were with Curly and that is something even Larry and Moe admitted during interviews they both gave.

There's a reason why there are 97 Curly shorts and only 73 Shemp shorts (the last four of those frequently using recycled footage and a body double to fill in for a deceased Shemp). Shemp was a part of the early Stooges act for only a few years when they were a second billed supporting act to entertainer Ted Healy on Vaudeville. Shemp was only in one film of this early version of the stooges (Soup to Nuts-1930) and left after filming due to his dislike of Healy. Through these years they remained second rate and virtually unknown and struggled to earn reasonable pay. Shemp didn't rejoin the group after their separation from Healy because Curly quickly replaced him and was discovered to have a born gift for comedy. After making that discovery, and seeing the clear increase in popularity, Larry and Moe couldn't have cared less about Shemp returning.

With the addition of Curly the popularity of The Stooges exploded and were soon given their own headlining contract with Columbia. Moe and Larry only made an effort to include Shemp in the Columbia shorts after Curly couldn't act anymore. That is the cold hard facts. That's not to say that Shemp didn't have his moments when he was funny, because he was funny at times. Comedy is not based on opinion as much as some would like to think though.

No matter what your opinion, nothing changes the facts: The Stooges were all but invisible before Curly, and were returned to second rate after Curly had to leave the group due to his failing health. Shemp has his loyal followers and some claim to like them equally but there is no changing the fact that their biggest success began and ended with Curly's years in the trio. After Curly left, it was the end of an era. Hopefully Columbia recognizes this as well and includes only the remaining 10 shorts of THE Three Stooges along with footage, interviews, and much deserved tributes to Curly. Save the declining Shemp years for those that have to have everything with the Three Stooges name attached.

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