Product Details

• Actors: The Little Rascals
• Directors: Robert McGowen, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Legend Films
• DVD Release Date: July 1, 2008
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001BSBBC6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,697 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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•MPAA Rating: NR
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 84 minutes

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 35mm restored & COLORIZED! But you can also watch this in B&W., February 9, 2007, February 15, 2010

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Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Little Rascals in The Best of Our Gang - All of the Shorts are Now In COLOR! Also Includes the Original Black-and-White Versions which have been Beautifully Restored and Enhanced! (DVD)

I give this only **** four stars because most of these films have already been released on DVD restored from 35mm. There is little new here.

The thought is that kids won't watch B&W films, so lets COLORIZE The Litle Rascals. Purists can watch this in B&W also, which is good since the colorization looks cartoony & unnatural.

I just could not pass up the extras that are included on these DVDs.

BEST OF OUR GANG has
Alfalfa short soundie "The Singing Lesson",
Broadway Highlights short clip of Pete the Pup becoming a member of a entertainment night club,
"You Asked For It" clip of the segment with the OUR GANG REUNION showing the silent stars (Jackie Condon, Joe Cobb, Farina & others) as they are in 1955.
Our Gang clip from "The Stolen Jewels" ( o.k. this is the only clip un necessary as the complete short is widely available ).

Oh, yes.. there are the comedy shorts. These are all from 35mm 1950's RE-ISSUE PRINTS, not the same MGM transfers as the Cabin Fever / Hallmark DVDs. But they are 35mm prints and they look very good. There is a variety of title sections representing almost every company that re-issued these shorts in 35mm, including Official Films which I never knew made 35mm prints.

BEST OF OUR GANG
"FLY MY KITE" - Official 'Famous Kids' titles - The rascals help Grandma save her property from the evil banker.

"A LAD IN A LAMP" - ERKO 'Kids 'n Pets' titles (1st time on DVD?)- Spanky & the gang find a 'magic lamp'. Spanky whishes Buckwheat was a monkey and thinks his wish came true when a real monkey comes in (there is always one around in a Little Rascals comedy).

"KID FROM BORNEO" - Monogram titles - a short that has been long banned from television due to racial jokes & the main character being a wild man from borneo who goes around saying "Yum , Yum , Eat'em Up" while chasing Spanky & the gang. It is unlikely that Hallmark will do an official release of this on their DVD sets, so you might want to consider this if you don't have the old Cabin Fever videos.

"HI! NEIGHBOR" - Allied Artists titles - The gang gets a new neighbor, who owns a shiny new kiddie firetruck.

"HIDE & SHRIEK" - Official 'Famous Kids' titles - another classic featured on this disc starring Alfalfa, Buckweat & Porky. Alfalfa plays a sherlock holmes type of detective and hires Buckweat & Porky to investigate some missing candy.

The shorts are offered in both Colorized & original B&W restored versions, but switching back & forth while playing the short is not possible. The bonus material is B&W only.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Gang's Back, November 26, 2008

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Teresa Anson (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Rascals in The Best of Our Gang - All of the Shorts are Now In COLOR! Also Includes the Original Black-and-White Versions which have been Beautifully Restored and Enhanced! (DVD)

You probably remember the Cabin Fever tapes from back when you were a kid. After all, where can you find a more wholesome piece of Americana than in the Depression-era antics of Spanky and company? Now that you're grown, you probably want to introduce your kids to Our Gang the same way that your parents introduced them to you, as a part of their socialization as equally wholesome, proud citizens. There's only one problem, I suspect: kids today have no tolerance for "antiquated" black and white cinema. And really, who can blame them? Color, the de facto standard to which they were raised, lends life, vibrancy and realism to anything that it glazes.

Thanks to this DVD, you can now bridge that generation gap by watching this newly colorized version of the Little Rascals' greatest shorts (even on the kids' Playstation if need be!). The drab, depressing black and white of '30s film suddenly comes to life in a full rainbow. And, should you succeed in making your kids into new fans, you'll always have the option of graduating them to the thoughtfully included black and white versions of the colorized material. From what I can tell, there's simply no other DVD that allows you the same flexibility.

Hardcore fans of Our Gang should take note of this disc's special features, which include clips of the gang's twenty year reunion and a hilarious skit where they encounter peer jokesters Laurel and Hardy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crowd Pleaser, July 6, 2009

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David E. Branch "full time mom" (Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Little Rascals in The Best of Our Gang - All of the Shorts are Now In COLOR! Also Includes the Original Black-and-White Versions which have been Beautifully Restored and Enhanced! (DVD)

My 5 grandchildren were entertained greatly while we were all vacationing
together. They loved the first episode the best and they begged to take
it home with them.