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Yes, two single sided discs. One has 11 shorts, the other has 8 shorts. There is no bonus material. And no subtitles.

I have received an advanced copy of the set, and I can answer the question everybody's been asking: is THREE LITTLE BEERS restored, with the footage that had been missing (a very funny gag with Curly playing Harpo) on the previous DVD release of this title? The answer is... *keeps everybody in...

I've posted my review of the new ICONS OF HORROR: SAM KATZMAN boxed set. You really can't imagine the splendor that is THE GIANT CLAW until you've seen it in anamorphic widescreen, folks. www.inthebalcony.com

"I have never heard of this and it would be the same as a TV station mixing a TV series up so that the episodes were in alphabetical order." That happened all the time, actually. Until the DVDs came out, for example, I'd never seen THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, one of my fave TV series, in...

"I think those that do not care about Chronological have not seen these films for quite some time when you see them again you will understand why Chronological is important." I have most of the films, and watch them from time to time. Chronological? I would still skip around and watch the good...

"I'll assume you're referring to their pre-1934 work in general, which was when they were with Ted Healy. There weren't any shorts produced then." Not true. They appeared in several shorts with Healy, and some of them are available on Warners DVDs. "Shemp was a start after he left the...

"Also as someone else pointed out I think a bigger problem with mixed sets would be seeing a young slip and sach playing a ganster film, then seeing a much older slip and sach acting goofy and like little kids and then seeing a film and Slip is suddenly gone and replaced by Stanley Clemens and...

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I have never understood why some folks insist on "chronological" releases. Warners didn't do a chronological release of their Fred & Ginger films, their films noir, or most of their other releases. The first batch of Bowery Boys films, chronologically, are not as strong as their later films...

For features, I see that the Mexican Spitfire series hasn't yet been mentioned. I'd pay to see those. And a good boxed set of Leon Errol shorts would be most welcome; ditto Edgar Kennedy and Andy Clyde. Of course, it goes without saying that the absence of the Hal Roach sound films is indeed a...

"Legend films could be seen as saviors of public domain material if they truly restore the B&W versions but because I have to pay for colorized versions to get their discs, I've only bought the L&H one. No need to encourage bad behavior, in my opinion." Absolutely. I think if the dopes at...

"Olson and Johnson's HELLZAPOPPIN is held up over rights issues. Universal doesn't want to pay royalties to the writers (or the estate of the writers) of the original Broadway play. It was released on DVD in Australia." The Australian release -- like the British release of CAT & THE CANARY --...

Yeah, unfortunately RKO sold off their shorts (hundreds and hundreds of 'em) separately from the sale of features, so Warners doesn't own the 2-reelers. Errol and Kennedy shorts were all over TV up through the 1970s; I don't know what's happened to them since then. I believe that all of the...

Rumor has it that MISSISSIPPI with Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields is in rights hell, but hardly anybody has noticed because so few of Fields films were released on VHS or DVD (the new DVD set will rectify a lot of that, although MISSISSIPPI isn't flowing yet). Ditto, of course, Abbott & Costello in...

Short subjects get a profound lack of respect in the DVD format. Warners is nice enough to throw them in as extras on various DVDs, but do not collect them. The wonderful RKO shorts with Edgar Kennedy or Leon Errol are MIA. Sony did a wonderful job with the Columbia Buster Keaton shorts, but the...

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (Time-Life, $17.98) This little-known 1965 country music jamboree has been released without fanfare by Time-Life and although it’s from an unrestored full-screen 16mm print, it’s still well worth having as a fascinating time capsule to the golden era of country...

I think a Jack Benny Signature Collection is long overdue. I'd also like to see short subject collections: "Crime Does Not Pay", Robert Benchley, Joe Doakes shorts... although Warners ain't gonna do that.

Whew. We survived the 57th annual Monogram Week, and awarded some swell DVDs as prizes. We've still got some beautiful East Side Kids lobby cards and autographed pics of Brenna Barry, Ms. Monogram 2007, to give away, though... www.inthebalcony.com

Oy, oy, oy... I'm still recovering from last night's Grand Banquet and Get Acquainted Dinner Dance at Monogram Week Central. Jennifer "Animala" Blaire turned over the tiara and title of Ms. Monogram to the new title holder, pics of whom are up now at www.inthebalcony.com.

Today, www.inthebalcony.com continues its coverage of the 57th Annual Monogram Week, showcasing the fine motion pictures from MONOGRAM, the studio that put the "try" in "artistry". Across the U.S., movie lovers are gathered together in a shared experience of enraptured enjoyment as flickering...

Yes, it's time for the 57th Annual MONOGRAM WEEK, honoring Monogram Pictures Corporation, the studio that gave us the Bowery Boys, Charlie Chan, Bomba the Jungle Boy, and the East Side Kids, plus lots of other movies not quite as good. According to tradition, fine Monogram features will be shown...

This has been out for quite some time, more than a year, easily. I have it and love it -- one of my fave low-budget compilations.

This has been discussed over on the L&H Newsgroup, where it's offered that the so-called "B&W" version from Legend is simply the colorized version with the color turned off. Bleccchhh.

Yeah, this is not news. We all survived. The Superman sets could've used much better bonus material, too, and the color episodes have a lousy print for all the opening credits. *shrugs* I still enjoy the episodes.

Golly, does anybody know of any really, really groovy classic-movie websites that are actually givin' away a copy of this thing for nothin'? You know, websites with really sexy, intelligent, charming and good-looking webmasters? A website, like, oh, I dunno... www.inthebalcony.com

So Paramount gave away SPY SMASHER and THE PERILS OF NYOKA and the Three Mesquiteers films and kept GOING APE! and THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE. "I have nothing to say" -- Oliver N. Hardy Somebody said, "Lion's Gate will continue to release Republic Pictures." "Continue to release???"

And they're not even colorized! Apparently, Sony believes that only Three Stooges fans are dumb enough to buy that crap.

And as I've mentioned before, Steve Beeks of Lionsgate (formerly Artisan) told me "There's no market for B&W films unless John Wayne is in them." He's a Harvard MBA, so there's no use trying to sway him otherwise.

As much as I'd like to have the Shirley Temple films, I'll buy an ammonia enema before I'll buy something colorized by those nitwits at Legend Films (or anybody else). Let 'em all rot in cinema hell.