Product Details

• Actors: Roland Young, Bob Denver
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Platinum Disc
• DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005
• Run Time: 659 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0009IWGBO

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COMEDY CLASSICS VOL 1 - DVD Movie

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3.0 out of 5 stars Definitely some classics here, September 20, 2005

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C. Wiesner "TooMuchMedia" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Comedy Classics V.1 (DVD)

Volume 1 of Platinum's "Comedy Classics" series is perhaps more deserving of the title than Volume 2 in the series, with two Harold Lloyd classics, a Wheeler and Woolsey vehicle and Roland Young and Joan Blondell in the third Topper film.

Topper Returns is a predictable entry in the Topper series, but is charmingly acted by the likes of Joan Blondell, Roland Young and Billie Burke. Possibly not a comedy classic, but definitely a stellar cast.

Hook, Line and Sinker has the zingy one-liners and zany characters typical of a Wheeler and Woolsey picture. Bert Wheeler plays the elder member of a pair of confidence men, and Robert Woolsey the junior member who falls in love with a hotel heiress played by Dorothy Lee.

The Milky Way is definitely a "comedy classic," and one of Harold Lloyd's best talking pictures. So successful was the tale of milkman-turned-fighter Burleigh Sullivan that Danny Kaye remade the film a decade later as The Kid from Brooklyn, changing little.

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock was Harold Lloyd's last of 200+ films, released in 1947. In it Lloyd manages to overcome the acting-with-animals curse by outshining 37 lions (including the famous "Jackie"), 14 tigers, 9 jaguars and 1 puma. Definitely a film worth looking at.