The Three Stooges - All the World's a Stooge

Starring:Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Sam Lufkin, Harry Wilson, Budd Fine, Harrison Greene, Elaine Waters, William Irving, Chuck Callahan, Everett Sullivan, Tony Chavex, Herb Stagman, Blackie Whiteford, Cy Schindell, Casey Colombo, Lelah Tyler
Director: Jack White (II), Del Lord
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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If you want to hear "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" in Spanish and Portuguese as well as in English, then the DVD format is for you. The Three Stooges: All the World's a Stooge gives a generous 124 minutes of seven Curly classics in a random order: "Grips, Grunts and Groans" (1937), "The World's a Stooge" (1941), "3 Dumb Clucks" (1937), "Three Little Pirates" (1946), "Uncivil War Birds" (1946), "Back to the Woods" (1937), and "Violent Is the Word for Curly" (1938). The shorts cover some familiar territory; "Grips, Grunts and Groans" is only the Stooges' 20th short in the Columbia series, and it is practically a rewrite of "Punch Drunks," the second. Here Curly is driven wild by a perfume rather than a song and is put into a wrestling ring rather than a boxing ring. Even the backscreen projection of the crowd is the same one used in the earlier film.

Product Description

Includes 3 Classic Stooges DVDs:

Curly Classics : Fun with The Three Stooges in six zany episodes: "A Plumbing We Will Go", "Men In Black", "Micro-Phonies", "Punch Drunks", "Three Little Pigskins" and "Woman Haters."

All the World's a Stooge: Includes these hilarious episodes: "Grips, Grunts and Groans", "All the World's a Stooge," "3 Dumb Clucks," "Three Little Pirates," "Uncivil War Birds," "Back to the Woods" and "Violent is the Word for Curly."

Spook Louder: Digital mayhem ensues in this spooktacular selection of the trio's six funniest fear fests: "Spook Louder", "Mummy's Dummies", "Shivering Sherlocks", "The Ghost Talks", "Hokus Pokus", and "Fright Night."

Customer Reviews:

Still funny.......2007-01-31

Some people think this stuff is silly, but it always makes me laugh. I am starting a dvd collection of varioius movies and old tv shows, this is the perfect addition. Works out to about 5 dollars an episode, can't beat that.
I would like to collect all of them, the ones with Shemp Too!

Good value.......2007-01-19

The DVD's aren't the same quality as something that was filmed 2007 but for 1940's film it is great and very enjoyable to watch.

The Stooges at their best !!.......2007-01-16

I loved the Curly Classics, A plumbing we will go, and Micro-phonies, and men in black are the best, and the others are great too

In Micro-Phonies when the Stooges flip the cherries into the man mouth, it gets me every time, I fall over with laughter !!

And a Plumbing we will go, this is just a CLASSIC!

A nice collection!!.......2007-01-03

For the money, a very nice collection of authentic Stooge shorts! I remember watching these guys when I was a kid, and wanted to introduce my 4 & 6 year olds to the Stooge style of comedy - I was not disappointed with the results this set provided!! Most included shows feature Curly, a few with Shemp, which was my preference. If you enjoyed the Three Stooges when you were younger, this set will bring back lots of good memories!!

NOW APPEARING "THE THREE STOOGES" AT AMAZON.......2004-02-09

FIRST LET ME SAY THIS SET IS WORTHY OF 5 STARS.I ONLY GAVE IT 4 BECAUSE OF THE FORMAT AND NOT THE ACTUAL SHORTS.AFTER EACH SHORT IS DONE YOU HAVE TO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU TO SELECT THE NEXT SHORT.THE SET IS A GREAT DEAL AT AMAZON'S PRICE.I JUST PURCHASED 4 OTHER STOOGE TITLES SEPARATELY AT OVER $100 SO THIS REALLY IS A BARGAIN.NOW AS FAR AS COLUMBIA AND THEIR RELEASE OF THE STOOGES.I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT THE DISCS ONLY HAVE 5-6 SHORTS ON THEM.WE ALL KNOW THAT A DVD CAN HOLD MORE THAN WHAT THEY HAVE PUT ON THEM,SO THIS REALLY IS ABOUT MAKING MORE MONEY FOR COLUMBIA AND GOUGING THE CONSUMER.IF WARNER CAN PUT OUT GILLIGAN'S ISLAND ON 3 DOUBLE SIDED DISCS WITH 36 EPISODES IN RUNNING ORDER, THAN COLUMBIA SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF DOING BETTER.I AM ANXIOUS TO SEE WHAT UNIVERSAL HAS DONE WITH ABBOTT AND COSTELLO,THEY HAVE A 2 DISC SET WITH 8 MOVIES FOR $22 COMING OUT.COLUMBIA SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF WHAT THE OTHERS ARE DOING AND GIVE US STOOGE FANS MORE FOR OUR MONEY!.

The Three Stooges - All the World's a Stooge

Average customer rating:

An Enjoyable DVD
Disappointing quality
Quality, where?
A GREAT COLLECTION OF CURLY SHORTS
The title says it all!

The Three Stooges - All the World's a Stooge
Starring: Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Sam Lufkin , and Harry Wilson
Director: Jack White (II) , and Del Lord
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 0767847571
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Amazon.com

If you want to hear "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" in Spanish and Portuguese as well as in English, then the DVD format is for you. The Three Stooges: All the World's a Stooge gives a generous 124 minutes of seven Curly classics in a random order: "Grips, Grunts and Groans" (1937), "The World's a Stooge" (1941), "3 Dumb Clucks" (1937), "Three Little Pirates" (1946), "Uncivil War Birds" (1946), "Back to the Woods" (1937), and "Violent Is the Word for Curly" (1938). The shorts cover some familiar territory; "Grips, Grunts and Groans" is only the Stooges' 20th short in the Columbia series, and it is practically a rewrite of "Punch Drunks," the second. Here Curly is driven wild by a perfume rather than a song and is put into a wrestling ring rather than a boxing ring. Even the backscreen projection of the crowd is the same one used in the earlier film.

Customer Reviews:

An Enjoyable DVD.......2006-11-14

loved all the episodes. have bought about 8 dvds in the series. pity 'a play all episodes' option was not included in all the discs. frustrating to have to keep selecting 'play next episode'. other than that, enjoyed it very much.

Disappointing quality.......2006-08-14

I would easily have rated this with 4 stars instead of 3 had the A/V quality been up to snuff. At first glance it looks like Columbia were feeling unusually generous when they put a record 7 shorts on this disc, but that generosity didn't extend into assembling the best possible prints. I've seen better prints of these shorts, so it's not like these were the only surviving prints around and only so much could be done given their age. All 190 Stooge shorts have been on safety stock since 1974, so there's no excuse for using such shoddy prints and for a DVD to look worse than a VHS. It's true that one can overlook lesser quality prints to a point when the films themselves are great, but again, we're not talking about films from 90 years ago that were on the brink of disintegration when they were restored. Most films from the Thirties and Forties aren't in this bad of a condition!

The shorts themselves:

'Back to the Woods' (1937) easily gets my vote for one of the worst shorts of the Curly era, right down there with the likes of 'Restless Knights' and 'Beer Barrel Polecats.' Man, this short is DULL. It isn't helped by the poor picture quality and the crackling sound in the background, kind of like the surface noise on a worn vinyl record. The pace is slow, there's not a lot of funny stuff, there's no real spark to it, it's not memorable, the musical number goes on way too long, and to top it all off there's some rather blatantly racist "humor" re the Native Americans. Knowing that that's just how they were portrayed and thought of in those days, untruthful as such a depiction was, doesn't make it any easier to watch. Ethnic humor is one thing, but this goes beyond that into racist "humor."

'Grips, Grunts, and Groans' (1937) also suffers from bad A/V quality. I also find this short to be massively overrated and can't fathom why a lot of fans rate this short very highly. To me, it's just average. There were some entertaining moments, but nothing that I found fall-down funny, classic, or memorable. They also did better shorts featuring the motif of Curly going bonkers whenever he hears, sees, or smells something, like 'Tassels in the Air' and 'Punch Drunks.' Although I did like how the opening scene reflected the Depression era, and I thought it was really funny when they were running away from the detectives and tripped over the baby carriage, sending it falling to the ground and making the baby tumble out. (Some fans find this scene more disturbing than funny, but it's not like that was an actual baby in there, and it's not like there aren't far more shocking gags and moments of dark humor in today's films.)

'All the World's a Stooge' (1941) is a bit above average. The opening scene in the dentist's office is great, and so is the premise of the Stooges pretending to be refugee children, but the scenes of them as children seem more like brief sketches instead of being more cohesive and flowing one into the other. This could have had the potential to have been a great short instead of merely a bit above average. And once again the image quality isn't great, though at least the sound here is good.

'3 Dumb Clucks' (1937) is excellent. Although we do see some bad image quality, overall the print is one of the nicest here. The premise is also interesting, and Curly's dual roles come off more naturally than Shemp's dual roles in the remake, 'Up in Daisy's Penthouse' (1953). In the remake, the camera transitions between the two characters just look fake and unconvincing. I also liked the scene in the hat shop, which was based on the scene in the 1928 Buster Keaton film 'Steamboat Bill, Jr.' Easily one of their best shorts of 1937.

'Violent is the Word for Curly' (1938) is a classic. It was directed by the great Charley Chase, and is widely regarded as one of the best shorts he directed for them. A lot of fans don't really care for the Chase-directed shorts because he tended to emphasise the plot over the slapstick violence, but here all of the elements are great. Though it does sort of have the feel of being a series of sketches instead of one coherently flowing plot, all of the scenes are excellent, with nothing dull or wasted. It also contains the famous "Swingin' the Alphabet" number. Some fans don't like when they sing, but it's not as though they broke into song in every other short, and they did have very nice singing voices.

'Three Little Pirates' (1946) is also a classic, but unfortunately suffers from the worst image quality here by far. Partway through the film, a bunch of annoying distracting white lines appear in the lefthand corner of the screen and just won't go away. It's totally inexcusable, particularly when we've all seen this short in MUCH better condition on television and VHS. This was also Curly's last great performance, even though he does still look and sound very different from the healthy feisty guy in the earlier shorts on this disc. He even has the strength left to do some of his signature moves. I've heard it suggested that perhaps the reason why this short and 'Micro-Phonies' are generally regarded as the best ones in his sick period are because for most of them, he was in heavy costume and playing the part of other characters instead of playing himself, so that his illness wasn't as noticeable as it was in a short the likes of 'Three Loan Wolves' or 'Monkey Businessmen.' This is a great short overall, and one of their classics from this era.

'Uncivil War Birds' (1946) is not a classic by any stretch of the imagination. It's just as dull and unfunny as 'Back to the Woods,' and I'm baffled as to why this short was included instead of the FAR superior 'Uncivil Warriors' (1935). This short is built around one running gag, which gets old quickly. At least some of their other shorts with similarly thin plots made up for it with great slapstick and memorable moments. It's also very slow-paced, though for being from Curly's sick period, he doesn't look or act as ill as he does in other shorts from this era. He doesn't get too many lines, though he does have the energy left to still do some of his signature moves, some of them for the very last time. The only really entertaining part for me was the scene of the boys singing in blackface.

Overall, the films on this disc (three great ones, one a bit above average, one kind of mediocre, and two bombs) would have ordinarily led me to assign it a 4-star rating, but given the atrocious A/V quality on some of these shorts, I just have to take the rating down another star. Columbia easily stands to make a fortune by remastering and releasing these shorts properly, so it's baffling as to why they're treating them like garbage and not using the best prints possible.

Quality, where?.......2005-10-28

The audio and video quality on this DVD is horrendous, even when taking into account the age of these films. Stooge DVDs released later on would show far superior quality to that shown in many of the films on this disc. Grips, Grunts, and Groans is the worst here - the picture is far too dark, and the sound is far less than desirable. All The World's A Stooge is quite bad too as far as A/V. On the plus side, we do get 7 shorts, more than any other Stooge DVD. However, one of them - Violent Is The World for Curly - would be re-released on one of the colorized DVDs from 2004.

A GREAT COLLECTION OF CURLY SHORTS.......2005-01-05

This DVD is loaded with seven Stooges shorts...all of them with Curly and contains some genuine Stooges classics.

"Grips, Grunts & Groans" the Stooges become friends of pro wrestler Bustoff. Bustoff is set to fight for the title but gets drunk and then knocked out by Barbells. Curly had to impersonate him in the match.

"All the World's a Stooge" 1941 - The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children.

"3 Dumb Clucks" 1937 - The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead.

"Three Little Pirates" 1946. The Best Curly short after 1945. The Stooges are ditched on Dead Man's Island. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. Contains the famous "Maha" "aha" routine of Stooges Gibberish. Classic!

"Uncivil Warbirds" 1946 - The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The least funny of all thier Civil War shorts.

"Back to the Woods" 1937 - Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians.

"Violent Is the Word for Curly" (1938)- The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. Contains the famous "Alphabet" song. A true Gem!

This is a great collection! Good transfer and sound and seven strong shorts.

The title says it all!.......2004-11-17

Here in this collection we see Moe Howard,Larry Fine and Moe's brother Curly Howard as pilgrims at war with Indians in BACK TO THE WOODS. Curly filling in for a wrestler named Bustoff(Bustoff has a round jovial face like Curly) in GRIPS,GRUNTS AND GROANS. The scent of a perfume called Wild Hyacinth drives Curly crazy,thus defeating his opponent. The Stooges' father divorces their mother and becomes engaged to a young blonde beauty. After the father shaves off his graying sideburns he looks exactly like Curly(Curly played a dual role in THREE DUMB CLUCKS). In VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY,the Stooges are gas station attendants and are mistaken for three professors scheduled to appear at a college(the real professors are the Stooges' customers). In ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE,the Stooges are janitors working in a dentist's office. After the trio extract a man's tooth via explosives,the man takes them in as a gift to his wife(they are "refugees"). UNCIVIL WARBIRDS was set in the 1700's during the era of the Confederate War. The Stooges,with southern accents,are engaged to three southern belles and marry them in the final scene. In THREE LITTLE PIRATES,the Stooges search for fifty pieces of gold that(the monetary value) will rescue them from an island. THREE DUMB CLUCKS was later remade as UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE with Moe and Curly's brother Shemp playing the dual role of son and father(Curly died before the remake was made).

The Three Stooges - Fancy Mixed Nyucks (Curly Classics / All the World's a Stooge)

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Little Boys Do Love Their Stooges!
wooo wooo woooo
Its Worth the Price! Highly recommended

The Three Stooges - Fancy Mixed Nyucks (Curly Classics / All the World's a Stooge)
Starring: Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , John Tyrrell (II) , and Bud Jamison
Director: Del Lord , Ray McCarey , and Edward Bernds
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Little Boys Do Love Their Stooges!.......2007-04-05

I have to confess that I am not that much of a Stooges fan. Therefore, my opinion may not be very useful to those who are true fans. I will not even bother trying to critique the quality or entertainment value of these films. I will tell you that if you are considering this collection as a gift for a young boy, you simply cannot go wrong. My son is nine years old and definitely all boy and he absolutely adores the Three Stooges. He had a $50 gift certficate from Amazon and blew the whole wad on Stooges DVD's. This set was not a disappointment to him in any way! It was the best of the ones he ordered and he watches it again and again. The skits included in this collection are definitely classics and show the Stooges at the top of their form.

wooo wooo woooo.......2007-02-07

These are some of the most special of the three stooges shorts and some of my all time favorites. A plumbing we will go is the best short in stooges history, and the rest are in the best of catagory. I must warn you though, if you buy this set you will be incapacitated by laughter and side splitting comedy from the masters of slapstick.

Its Worth the Price! Highly recommended.......2006-02-01

I enjoyed watching the 3 The Three Stooges in good quility. I get Hours of fun with this plus it keep the kids laughing.

The Three Stooges 3 DVD Bundle (Curly Classics, Cops & Robbers, All the World's a Stooge)

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The Three Stooges 3 DVD Bundle (Curly Classics, Cops & Robbers, All the World's a Stooge)

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Product Description

A Plumbing We Will Go(1940): /// Men In Black(1934): /// Micro-phonies (1945): /// Punch Drunks(1934): /// Three Little Pigskins (1934): /// Woman Haters(1934): /// Three Little Pirates (1946): /// 3 Dumb Clucks (1937) /// Grips, Grunts and Groans (1937): /// All the World's a Stooge (1941): /// Back to the Woods (1937): /// Uncivil War Birds (1946): /// Uncivil War Birds (1949): /// Crime on Their Hands (1948): /// Calling All Curs (1939): /// Dizzy Detectives (1943): /// Flat Foot Stooges (1938)

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