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

These guys have stood the test of time. Making people laugh since the 30's.
Yes, they are vulgar. Yes, they are politically incorrect. Yes, they are low brow. Yes, they are violent. Yes, they are inappropriate for younger children.
They can still make the most ardent stooge detractor laugh out loud.
What is funnier than seeing Moe get his head caught in a large pipe?
I can't wait for volume 5. "Three Little Pirates" is one of my favorites. Many of those early Shemp films are classics.
Please Columbia/Sony, don't stop now.
Maha? Ah-ha.

Nice collection of some really funny Stooge comedies with Curly. This collection does include the Stooge shorts where Curly's illness is sadly evident. Still, Curly was still able to give his all and this collection is a delight for Stooge fans everywhere. So, listen you Grapeheads, buy this collection or I'll give you the new fingers. New fingers? Those are the old ones. They'll do. 'Poke'. Oh, Oh!!!

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another great 21 shorts from the boys. contains my favorite SPOOK LOUDER,
only trouble is on some of the later ones it's sad to see curly's health
going downhill.can't wait for vol. 5. believe theres about 10 more curlt
shorts then we'll go into shemp. hope they do both stooges in the volume
instead of a single one to finish the curly episodes.

Finally, someone has come out with good top quality collections of The Three Stooges. You have Lucy and other complete collections of classics yet it's taken years for someone to come out with a thorough collection of the Stooges work. My only hope is that they don't stop at volume 4 and keep making more volumes. I would like to see volumes containing all the shorts with Shemp in them too. In some ways he is just as funny as Curly. I think him and Moe played off each other a little better. Anyway, I would highly recommend this volume and others in these new collections. You can't buy any better versions of these works.

Sincerely,
Stooge Fan

Sony hasn't stopped yet! Beautiful transfers from the original 35 mm negatives these episodes can be seen in quality that has never been released on TV or home VHS and DVD before. And the best set of them all contains the widest variety of film shorts. Where the format of the depression-style episodes exit the back door, the Stooges try formats including one that offers staged vaudeville performances throughout the entire short! A couple feature scenes we would consider "racial" by today's standards but since we're more mature now than we used to be, we can accept these scenes as history and thank God Sony did not edit them. WWII enters the picture as the Stooges fight Germans and Japanese. Haunted House film shorts are included. Curly had a stroke during this era, so the later shorts you'll notice him performing solo for a number of scenes and he's lost a lot of weight. While the first three volumes (also recommended) contain the "best of" I do recommend this set for a chance to see something different.