A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection — in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Harris]

The Marx Brothers were a team unique in the history of cinema. Which may have been a good thing, as two of them may have been too many.
Like some other comedy teams, it’s occasionally a love it or hate it situation.
Personally, I’ve never been fond of the Stooges, like certain of the Laurel & Hardy productions, but have always been a huge Marx Brothers fan.
While their career in features ran from 1929 through 1949, a decent run in the film business, their truly legendary work was done for two studios. First Paramount, out of Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, for The Cocoanuts (1929), and Animal Crackers (1930), followed by their move west for Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and finally Duck Soup (1933).
They made their move to M-G-M, and greater budgets with which to work their lunacy, for A Night at the Opera (1936) and A Day at the Races (1937).
A quick stop at RKO, yielded the less than stellar Room Service (1938), before a return to M-G-M for At the Circus...

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[ahollis]

Now I'm looking forward to this collection even more.

 

[TJPC]

I pre-ordered this from Amazon.ca. Although it is supposed to be available tomorrow, they were not giving me a due date. When I sent them an inquiry they e-mailed me telling me that due to overwhelming demand it is on back order and orders will be filled on a first come first served basis.

 

[Robert Harris]

No one will be disappointed

 

[TJPC]

No one will be disappointed

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[B-ROLL]

Hail, Hail Freedonia ....
Land of the Free

$41.49 at Target (online only ) http://www.target.com/p/marx-brothers-silver-screen-collection-blu-ray/-/A-51840859

 

[B-ROLL]

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Mind the words of Yoda ...

 

[dana martin]

was preordered the moment it was available, and already have the tracking info that it should be at the house tomorrow, looks like my son is going to get my old DVD set, as I got him hooked on them at an early age. reading that review just sums up what I had hoped, that these were treated with care and respect, and presented in the best possible way, the down side is now I will be pining for WB to follow suit, for their other two masterpieces. ADATR and ANATO

 

[Angelo Colombus]

To me they are the kings of comedy and very happy Universal took the time to do their best to clean up the image & sound and release a nice Blu-ray box set. Hope Universal can do another Blu-ray set with the great comic W.C. Fields.

 

[Alan Tully]

To me they are the kings of comedy and very happy Universal took the time to do their best to clean up the image & sound and release a nice Blu-ray box set. Hope Universal can do another Blu-ray set with the great comic W.C. Fields.

Yup, & don't forget the Hope/Crosby 'Road To' movies

 

[Matt Hough]

Yep, Fields especially and Crosby/Hope should definitely be on Universal's agenda.

 

[Mike2001]

I would really like to see The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard on blu.

 

[PMF]

Animal Crackers [...] One of the nice surprises, is that it includes over a minute of material censored for re-issue, which has not been seen since that time.
Horse Feathers [...] One sequence still have censor cuts, and while a search was made, who knows what may turn up in the future.

ANIMAL CRACKERS:
Are you referring to the re-issue from the early 70's?
If so, it would be hard to imagine anything from the 30's being censored, what with "R" rated films already established throughout the country. It'll be fun to see what that one-minute lends. And I'll bet it's a Groucho line, too.

Horse Feathers:
Are you able to say what was censored?

 

[PMF]

So many thanks to Universal.

 

[ahollis]

My notice says it's arriving today. [emoji847][emoji847][emoji847][emoji847]

 

[PMF]

My notice says it's arriving today.

Please report in and give us your take.
I'll be foregoing the sales; the price is already more than fair and I want to support Universal ASAP for their efforts.

 

[dana martin]

UPS put it in my hands walking out the door to go to work,

 

[Rob W]

ANIMAL CRACKERS:
Are you referring to the re-issue from the early 70's?
If so, it would be hard to imagine anything from the 30's being censored, what with "R" rated films already established throughout the country. It'll be fun to see what that one-minute lends. And I'll bet it's a Groucho line, too.

Horse Feathers:
Are you able to say what was censored?

Both films were made before the Production Code came into effect in the early thirties, and the cuts were made for reissues later in the decade, not the 1970's.

 

[Dave B Ferris]

Probably not too many members here will be surprised that when I was speaking to a young(ish)-sounding clerk at Barnes and Noble about this release, she asked me to verify that the surname involved was spelled:
M-A-R-K-S.

 

[PMF]

Probably not too many members here will be surprised that when I was speaking to a young(ish)-sounding clerk at Barnes and Noble about this release, she asked me to verify that the surname involved was spelled:
M-A-R-K-S.

Being that she worked at Barnes and Noble, maybe she thought it was okay to be 50% off; even though its still only October.