Here we have classic Stooges from the Golden Age of Curly, with the spurious option of colorization, as the four short films compiled on this disc are presented in both the original black-and-white (handsomely remastered, too; a couple of episodes shot by ace film noir cinematographer Lucien Ballard really shine) and via the new ChromaChoice computer-generated color process. The latter is definitely an improvement over the old colorization process rammed down our throats by Ted Turner, but it still looks a bit cheap. Included here is "Violent Is the Word for Curly," a familiar farce in which the boys are mistaken for new professors at Mildew College for Women and teach the students the silly "Swinging the Alphabet" song; "You Nazty Spy," Moe, Larry, and Curly's pre-war spoof about Hitler, full of puns and clever insults, but no match for Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator; "No Census, No Feeling," in which the trio botch their jobs as census takers and somehow end up in a football game; and "An Ache in Every Stake," with the Stooges as ice delivery men who mess up a birthday dinner. Regardless of the colorization debate, it's nice to see the Stooges looking this crisp. Recommended. [Note: also newly available is The Three Stooges: Goofs on the Loose.] (T. Keogh)
The Three Stooges: Stooged and Confoosed
Columbia TriStar, 70 min., not rated, DVD: $24.95 Volume 19, Issue 6
The Three Stooges: Stooged and Confoosed
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