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| Films featuring popular comics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, such as Abbott & Costello, Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Laurel & Hardy, are collected on GREAT COMEDY TEAMS.
THE GORILLA - The Ritz Brothers (1939): Allan Dwan's adaptation of Ralph Spence's play was the first of two efforts with the Ritz Brothers. When wealthy insurance broker Walter Stevens (Bela Lugosi) receives a death threat from a rampaging murderer known only as 'the Gorilla' he hires a trio of private detectives Garrity (Jimmy Ritz), Harrigan (Harry Ritz) and Mulligan (Al Ritz) for protection. When they arrive at the threatened time of murder, the detectives question Stevens' servants, and his niece Norma (Patsy Kelley) and her fiance (Jack Marsden). At midnight, Stevens suddenly disappears, and the trio of shamuses scour the house for him. The gorilla suddenly appears only to quickly vaporize, terrifying the guests even more. One of Stevens' clients, Conway (Paul Harvey) arrives, claiming that the broker cooked up the gorilla ruse to swindle his employer. Adding to the melee, an agent of the Security and Exchange Commission shows up, and seconds Conway's story, saying that Stevens mailed himself the death threat to deflect any suspicion away from himself. He leads the detectives through a series of mazelike hidden corridors where they find Stevens bound and gagged. The loopy Ritz Brothers as detectives must be seen to be believed. Horror movie stalwarts such as Lugosi (DRACULA) and Atwill (THE SON OF FRANKENSTEIN), also have amusing turns.
Cast: Bela Lugosi, The Ritz Brothers
Director: Allan Dwan
ALL OVER TOWN - Olsen & Johnson (1937): Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being being jinxed. Ole and Chic are kidnapped by murderers, but manage to escape in a rollicking climax.
Cast: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson
Director: James W. Horne
PRIVATE SNUFFY SMITH - Billy DeBeck (1942): Snuffy Smith (Bud Duncan), moonshining hillbilly, grows tired of dodging revenue agents, headed by Cooper (Edgar Kennedy), and decides to take the army up on their offer of free clothes, food and $21.00 a month. Once enlisted, he finds that revenue agent Cooper is his sergeant. Don (Jimmie Dodd), a hillbilly soldier friend of Snuffy, has invented a range finder, but it is stolen by some fifth columnists and hidden in Snuffy's bag. Snuffy decides he has all the army discipline he cares for and heads back to Smokey Mountain, followed closely by the enemy agents.
Cast: Bud Duncan, Edgar Kennedy, Sarah Padden
Director: Edward F. Cline
MR. WISE GUY - The East Side Kids (1942): Mr. Wise Guy (the eighth in the East Side Kids series) finds the gang sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins (Douglas Fowley), brother of co-leader Danny (Bobby Jordan), becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs (Leo Gorcey), Glimpy (Huntz Hall), Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby (Billy Gilbert), a henchman of Luke Manning (Guinn Williams), knows something about the murder.
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Billy Gilbert, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Director: William Nigh
HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE - Wheeler & Woosley (1930): Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a pair of AWOL doughboys on the loose in Paris during World War I. Slapstick comedy with sound.
Cast: Bert Wheeler
Director: Paul Sloane
AFRICA SCREAMS - AbbotT & Cosetello (1949): Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) and Stanley Livingston (Lou Costello) go on an African safari in search of treasure. Buzz is a bookseller who tricks Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) into believing that his fellow bookseller Stanley is an expert on Africa. They are thereby abducted by Diana’s henchmen who expect the two self proclaimed hunters to lead her to an African tribe. On the way there they run up against giant apes, lion tamers, and a wild river. Eventually Buzz makes his way back to the States and Stanley lucks into some diamonds and purchases the store where they both used to work. By the end, Stanley hires Buzz to operate the elevator. Charles Barton directs some great gags and funny comedy routines in this lively film. This story contains the much-loved theme of Lou being terrorized by an evil pushy woman who eventually gets so fed up with his ineptitude that she wants him dead. Look for great comic turns by Martin Wilkins as the dreaded Cannibal Chief and Shemp Howard as Gunner.
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Director: Charles Barton
CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK - Amos & Andy (1942): When Amos and Andy spend a night in a haunted house during an initiation ritual for their lodge, they get into plenty of trouble--and solve a mystery. This is the only movie made by the infamous comedy team.
Cast: Charles Correll, Freeman Gosden
Director: Melville Brown
SPEAK EASILY - Buster Keaton & Jimmy Durante (1932): When a prim and proper college professor inherits a fortune, he finds himself in charge of a theatrical troupe. The comedy begins when he has to deal with conniving blondes, harried directors and a clumsy chorus line.
Cast: Buster Keaton
Director: Edward Sedgwick
UTOPIA - Laurel & Hardy (1951): Stan and Ollie inherit an island in the Pacific where uranium is discovered. This was their last effort as Laurel and Hardy and was made in France and then later dubbed in English.
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Director: Leo Joannon
ROAD TO BALI - Bob Hope & Bing Crosby (1953): The only color road picture Bob Hope and Bing Crosby ever made, the inimitable comedy duo set out to rescue a native princess, the lovely Dorothy Lamour, from a plethora of jungle dangers. Guest appearances by Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Jane Russell.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director: Hal Walker
Additional Release Material:
Bonus Short/Feature - FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS
ABBOTT & COSTELLO RADIO BROADCAST
Boby Hope & Bing Crosby Radio Broadcast
Text/Photo Galleries: Photo Gallery
Region 0
3 - Disc Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English |
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