The Three Stooges - Spook Louder

Starring:Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Stanley Blystone, Lew Kelly, Charles Middleton, Symona Boniface, Shirley Patterson, William Kelley, Stanley Brown, Theodore Lorch, Shemp Howard, Dee Green, Ralph Dunn, Philip Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Virginia S. Ellsworth (II), Wanda Perry
Director: Del Lord, Edward Bernds
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

The Three Stooges DVD Collection (Curly Classics / Spook Louder / All the World's a Stooge)

Average customer rating:

Still funny
Good value
The Stooges at their best !!
A nice collection!!
NOW APPEARING "THE THREE STOOGES" AT AMAZON

The Three Stooges DVD Collection (Curly Classics / Spook Louder / All the World's a Stooge)
Starring: Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Stanley Blystone , and Lew Kelly
Director: Del Lord , and Ray McCarey
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B00005M2C1
Release Date: 2001-08-21

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!.

Average customer rating:

A varied selection
STOOGES in decline
More classic slapstick from the Stooges
An OK DVD!
Four great shorts, two weak ones.

The Three Stooges - Spook Louder
Starring: Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Stanley Blystone , and Lew Kelly
Director: Del Lord , and Edward Bernds
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ASIN: B00004U1ET
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Product Description

Digital mayhem ensues in this spooktacular selection of the trio's six funniest fear fests:

Spook Louder (1943): Traveling salesman, The Three Stooges, meet their toughest customers when an inventor hires them to guard his spooky home while he is away. Things get really grim when three spies disguised as monsters show up.

Mummy's Dummies (1948): The Smiling Egyptians is a used-chariot lot run by the Stooges in ancient Egypt. Business is booming until they make the mistake of selling a lemon to the chief of the palace guard, which lands them in hot water with the king.

Shivering Sherlocks (1947): When an armored car robber strikes, the Stooges are rounded up for interrogation. A cafe owner vouches for them and they are freed, but it isn't long before they come face to face with the bloodthirsty robber and his hatchet man.

The Ghost Talks (1949): The Stooges have a job to do, but it isn't going to be easy. Their job is to remove a suit of armor from the Smorgasbord Castle. The problem: the armor doesn't want to leave until the ghost of Lady Godiva returns for their rendezvous!

Hokus Pokus (1949): A beautiful con artist uses Moe, Larry and Shemp as character references in her scheme to defraud an insurance company. But when a famed hypnotist casts a spell on the Stooges, no one can insure what happens next.

Fright Night (1947): In Shemp's first short as a member of the Stooges, the three are trainers at Muscle Manor, a macho gym for boxers. When a gangster threatens them, they use cream puffs -- including a live one! -- to soften their champ up for losing.

Customer Reviews:

A varied selection.......2006-07-27

The 6 shorts presented here vary in quality, though I wouldn't classify any of them as horrible or significantly below-par. None of them are what I would consider bona-fide classics, but there are some great shorts here. The shorts included are:

'Spook Louder' (1943), the title film. I agree this is kind of a mediocre effort and that it doesn't really have a great plot or a lot of resolution at the end, but it is really fun, with a lot of great scenes, like the ones with the boys working as door-to-door salesmen, the hall with all of the clocks in the haunted mansion, and the kitten on the piano. Overall it does have a nonsensical and inconsistent plot, but sometimes you just want to laugh instead of worrying about how smooth the plot is or whether the ending had any resolution.

'Mummies' Dummies' (or 'Mummy's Dummies,' as it's labelled on this disc) (1948) is one of the so-called "Missing 60," shorts which were unavailable and unbroadcast for quite a long time. This is a really good short, featuring the boys as crooked used chariot salesmen in ancient Egypt. They sell a lemon to a man who turns out to be the Chief of the Palace Guards and are duly brought before King Rootentooten, though they escape death and are made chamberlains when they cure the king's horrible toothache. After this they find out about a plot to cheat the king and a number of other people out of their tax money, and when they foil the bad guys, the king rewards them again, this time saying one of them can marry his daughter. Although it doesn't really fit with the theme of this disc, since it's not really a fright film!

'Shivering Sherlocks' (1948) is another of the best shorts on here. The boys are suspected of being behind a robbery, but they pass the polygraph test at the police station and are free to go. They go to a restaurant owned by their friend Gladys (Christine McIntyre), which they lied to the cops about working at. They eventually end up going with Gladys to a spooky old house she just inherited to make sure she won't be getting cheated, and this house of course turns out to be the place where the real crooks are hiding out, along with a creepy-looking creature named Angel. However, I'm told that the remake, 'Of Cash and Hash' (1955), is actually better, because it explains a lot of the loose ends in this one. Here, for example, there are a lot of plot holes: Why were the boys hiding in a garbage can at the beginning? Why were they able to identify Lefty Loomis? How did Gladys manage to get untied? Why did the cops arrive at the house just as the bad guys were getting knocked out and captured? It's also a bit embarrassing to watch Moe trying to recreate the scene Curly has with the oyster soup in 'Dutiful But Dumb' (1941). Those mannerisms and physical reactions just didn't fit his own comedic personality.

'The Ghost Talks' (1949) is a sub-par effort, partly because it has something that shouldn't talk (a suit of armor) talking. There are some funny scenes, but overall it's not a very inspired short. The boys are deliverymen who come to an old house on a very stormy night, trying to pick up some furniture that has to be moved, but don't get very far because of the hokey talking suit of armor, who says he is the spirit of Peeping Tom, the man who accidentally caught a glimpse of Lady Godiva on her famous ride a thousand years ago. Tom says he's not going anywhere, even though he's one of the things that has to be transported. He says that Lady Godiva is going to come back for him that night. (On a side note, the voice of Tom is done by Phil Arnold, though many people think it was Curly, since the suit of armor's voice sounds a lot like his real-life normal speaking voice.)

'Hokus Pokus' (1949) has the boys taking care of Mary, a woman who lives upstairs. Little do they know that Mary is only using them so that she'll get a check for $25,000 from the insurance company and that she isn't really unable to walk. While they're at work, they paste up a poster advertising a hypnotist, Svengarlic, who is coming to the area. They think he might be able to hypnotise Mary to walk, but he ends up using them as his subjects. They eventually end up on a flagpole many stories above the ground, and are broken out of their spell when a man on a bicycle accidentally runs into Svengarlic. They crash through a window just as Mary is receiving her check, blowing her story about being unable to walk. Perhaps not one of their very best, but it is pretty good, and it's special to me because it was the first Shemp short I ever saw.

'Fright Night' (released in 1947, though actually made in 1946) has perhaps been overrated a bit because it was Shemp's first short after he rejoined the team. I think it's good, but not one of their greatest. It's probably due to the fact that he needed some time to perfect his character (though one can see how naturally he fit back in after so many years away, like riding a bike), and they all needed a bit of time to adjust to the change in their lineup, develop a new dynamic between the three of them. This was also done when everyone thought this would just be a temporary filling-in until Curly got better, and one can only imagine how the other two must have been missing him and wanting him to be there with them. (This film had originally been written for him.) And one can only imagine how audiences must have felt during its original theatrical run, wondering what was going on, since Curly's health problems were not made public and, to the best of my knowledge, there was never any official announcement about the change in lineup. I personally don't find it as great or impressive as other fans do, but it's certainly far from a weak or bad short. Although this short also doesn't really fit in with the spooky theme of the disc, apart from the title!

All in all, these are enjoyable shorts, even if not all of them are 5-star material or among their classics. It's a nice collection to have, even in spite of the varied quality.

STOOGES in decline.......2005-10-10

After viewing this collection of Stooges shorts, I can say with assurance that I'm NOT a big Shemp fan. Shemp's performance as Curly's replacement in five of the six shorts just didn't cut it for me. I'll take Curly's wild, obnoxious-yet-cute antics over Shemp's less-than-lucid-wimpy-pushover schtick every time. And when it comes to physical comedy-- you know, the whole pratfall thing-- not even the likes of Chevy Chase could come close to mastering the art of being literally fall-down funny as Curly was. It appears the die-hard Stooge-o-Philes were right about the team's post-Curly misadventures not bein' quite up to snuff...

Sadly, the one short that DID have Curly was subpar; the whole pie-throwing angle felt like something that was tacked on to try and compensate for a fairly weak story... an effort that failed miserably. On the upside: at least the pies that hit the various characters were real ones, and not just big ol' dollops of whipped cream in pie pans. It just goes to show you that, even while trying to get by on weak writing, the Stooges were sticklers for realism... heh.

As for the rest of the presentation, there were times where it was apparent that the beloved trio sorely missed the most popular Stooge ever. Well, missed by the other Howard brothers, anyway; Larry looked like he couldn't care less. He was probably just happy he still had a job! Anyhoo, this "separation anxiety" would pop up on rare occasions when Moe or Shemp would imitate some of their ailing brother's on-screen mannerisms... and not do a very good job of it. Fortunately, their little Curly moments would last just a couple seconds before they reverted back to their usual selves. Sadly, their regularly-scheduled characterizations weren't quite enough to lift this collection of mini-misadventures above mediocrity.

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More classic slapstick from the Stooges.......2004-06-15

In SPOOK LOUDER,the Stooges are hired by an inventor to sublive in his home while he takes a business trip to Washington. But they're met by three burglars in Halloween costumes. FRIGHT NIGHT(don't let the title befuddle you) is where the Stooges(Shemp's first,replacing his ill,popular brother Curly) are fight managers and are ordered by mobsters to make sure that their boxer friend,Gorilla Watson wins a fight against Chopper Kane. In SHIVERING SHERLOCKS,the Stooges inspect an estate mansion that their friend Gladys Harmon(Christine McIntyre) is selling. In MUMMY'S DUMMIES,set in Egypt,the Stooges swindle the Chief of the Palace Guards by selling him a broken down used chariot(it fell apart upon his leaving the dealership). In THE GHOST TALKS,the Stooges as movers,remove the contents of a haunted mansion but have a hard time with a live knight in shining armor. The knight leaves with his love,Lady Godiva on horseback. In HOCUS POCUS,the Stooges help their friend Mary who pretends to be a wheelchair-bound invalid in order to collect money from an insurance company. FN,TGT,HP and SS were later remade respectively as FLING IN THE RING,CREEPS,FLAGPOLE JITTERS and OF CASH AND HASH. Great moral support from Christine McIntyre,Vernon Dent,Mary Ainslee,Symona Boniface,Stanley Blystone,Phil Arnold and Kenneth MacDonald.

An OK DVD!.......2002-06-14

Spook Louder is an OK DVD. One thing I don't like about it is that there are too many Shemp episodes. If they were going to release a Shemp DVD, Columbia should have released better episodes like "Crime On Their Hands", "Who Done It?", and "Tricky Dicks". Those are hilarious Shemp episodes. The only good Shemp episodes on this DVD are "Shivering Sherlocks" and "Mummy's Dummies". The other three are good, but there are better Shemp episodes out there. "Spook Louder" is a great Curly episode. Of course, I'm a Curly fan. But I also like Shemp. I am just very picky with Shemp episodes. I like every Curly episode except "Restless Knights". Overall, this is a pretty good DVD. There are just three episodes that are a little on the weak side. So, if you're a big stooge fan who likes Shemp, then this DVD is right for you.

Four great shorts, two weak ones........2002-01-15

SPOOK LOUDER is a pretty good DVD. MUMMY'S DUMMIES, SHIVERING SHERLOCKS, HOKUS POKUS, and FRIGHT NIGHT are great shorts. However, SPOOK LOUDER and THE GHOST TALKS were pretty weak. The best ones here are MUMMY'S DUMMIES and HOKUS POKUS. Pretty good DVD. Recommended!

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