Product Details

• Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Henry Gibson, Edie Adams, Pamela Austin
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Color, 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: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Run Time: 505 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001MZVZH4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,913 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Evil Roy Slade / Brothers O'Toole - Collector's Edition Embossed Tin!" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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EVIL ROY SLADE/BROTHERS O'TOOLE - DVD Movie

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Brothers O'Toole, July 25, 2010

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This review is from: Evil Roy Slade / Brothers O'Toole - Collector's Edition Embossed Tin! (DVD)

About the only movie I consider funnier than "The Brothers O'Toole" (1973) is "The Big Lebowski" (1998). Both have the same combination of huge exaggeration coupled with subtle parody, exploding film conventions of their respective genres with completely out-of-place dialog. My appreciation of this no doubt speaks to a twisted sense of humor and an appreciation of the absurd; of which there is so little in more mainstream comedy features. So if you happen to be "Duckman" off-kilter, then "The Brothers O'Toole" is a film that you should seek out.

John Astin's success the year before in "Evil Roy Slade" (1972), the other western parody on the DVD, inspired a sequel of sorts. Or at least a similar extreme outlaw character, this time named "Desperate" Ambrose J. Littleberry. When not busy terrorizing citizens, poor Desperate is a henpecked husband. An almost unrecognizable Lee Meriwether wonderfully overplays his shrewish wife Poloma. It is definitely her signature performance and I laugh every time I think about what the Miss America pageant people must have thought about this hysterical portrayal.

The humor in both films is nicely twisted but "The Brothers O'Toole" is several notches above "Evil Roy Slade" on the IQ scale, which may account for it being a bit more obscure. O'Toole is the "Support Your Local Sheriff" and "Slade" is "Support Your Local Gunfighter"; as an example of the same type of comparative difference.

For Astin this is a duel role, as he and Steve Carlson play the title characters; a pair of too sophisticated drifter brothers Michael and Timothy O'Toole. Michael is an unambitious cardsharp and Timothy is a small-time rogue and roué. They come to the tiny town of Molybdenum, Colorado (Molly B'Damn to the locals) from separate disasters. Michael has just been ridden out of another town and Timothy is fleeing the shotgun wedding bells and angry father of his latest conquest, Bonnie Lou MacClanahan (Miranda Berry who is flat out irresistible).

The town is a collection of characters played by a collection of character actors like Richard Erdman, Pat Carroll, Allyn Joslyn (the reluctant sheriff), Jessie White (the slimy mayor). Joslyn and White are especially good, as is Hans Conried who plays a financier obviously modeled on Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The main plot device is mistaken identity as Michael O'Toole is mistaken for A. J. Littleberry and thrown in jail. Michael's summation at his trial and a later diatribe about the town are simply comedy classics, as is pretty much everything done and said by Richard Jury who plays the town's greedy undertaker, Harmon P. Lovejoy.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

4.0 out of 5 stars A national treasure!, March 15, 2010

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S. Ravago "loco rocker" (San Diego, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evil Roy Slade / Brothers O'Toole - Collector's Edition Embossed Tin! (DVD)

I am jazzed, gassed and just plain old excited about having found this double DVD tin of John Astin at his wackiest. I remember these movies from along time ago and I howled with laughter. The sight gags are plentiful and the side jokes are so subtle that you might miss them or get them 20 seconds later in the movie.
Of the two, the Brothers O'Toole is my favorite; The movie is definately under rated and under appreciated.

4.0 out of 5 stars Evil Roy Slade/ Brothers O'Tool, February 19, 2010

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Marvin Hughey "polka dancer" (Okla City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evil Roy Slade / Brothers O'Toole - Collector's Edition Embossed Tin! (DVD)

A good family movie, just funny in so many ways. Made when comedy wasn't crude or vulger. Enjoy the fun, watch it with a child for more fun, they relate to it better.