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The Little Rascals Collector's Edition III

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Finally Hallmark has decided to issue another Little Rascals DVD! They promise us unedited copies like the old Cabin Fever release. Unfortunately, if you are replacing your old Cabin Fever VHS tapes you will find this release minus Leonard Maltin and in a different order:

Shorts included on this set:

Former Cabin Fever volume 6
FREE WEELIN' (1932) with Spanky & Stymie
MIKE FRIGHT (1934) with Spanky & Stymie
WASHEE IRONEE (1934) with Spanky, Stymie & Buckwheat
FISHY TALES (1937) with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla & Buckwheat

Former Cabin Fever volume 8
SHIVER MY TIMBERS (1931) with Stymie
DIVOT DIGGERS (1936) with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla & Buckwheat
BORED OF EDUCATION (1936) with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla & Buckwheat
CHOO CHOO (1932) with Spanky (one of his first) & Stymie

Half of former Cabin Fever volume 9
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1930) with Jackie Cooper
FRAMING YOUTH (1937) with Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla & Buckwheat

And yes , you will find SPANKY, ALFALFA, DARLA, STYMIE and BUCKWHEAT in many of these. All of the shorts are five star comedies!

This DVD has a REALLY good selection of Gang/ Rascals comedies, among the best of the bunch!

"Free Wheeling" (1932) Much has been said about the supposed racism of the Gang/Rascals, but this is possibly the most ANTI-racist of all gang films. Dickie Moore's snooty mother overprotects her impaired son and refuses to let him play with Stymie, who she referrs to as "that colored boy" and "that street urchin," but guess who saves the day? Strong stuff for 1932 and good stuff for today.

Mike Fright (1934) is a hoot about the gang's "International Silver String Submarine Band" running amuck at a radio station. LOVE the gag where Tommy Bond sucks a lemon ("they're good for your freckles") while Leonard tries to play the trumpet.

As for "Shiver My Timbers," (1931), Leonard Maltin has not spoken well of this film in his Our Gang book, but I LOVE it! This is where a salty old sailor scares the gang with wild pirate stories. Anyone who has ever had the fun of telling children scary stories will have a soft spot for this pix.

I could go on and on, but just GET IT and enjoy.

...because the soundtrack for the musical short MIKE FRIGHT is badly out-of-sync throughout. Thus, mouths move a few seconds ahead of what is previously said or heard. In a short such as this where vocals play a prominent part in the narrative I find this highly distracting. How this glaring an error could not be caught and rectified prior to pressing of this disk is beyond me.

What can I say? I grew up on the Our Gang follies. Loved them then and love them now. Get it for clean refreshing fun humor!

I purchased this DVD along with some other Little Rascals DVDs for my father for Christmas. He absolutely LOVED them. He watched the entire first disc (about 10 episodes long)in one sitting! He hadn't seen the show in about 40 years, but he was able to recite it word for word as if he saw it yesterday. It was a very special for him to be able to watch the show that defined his childhood with his own children. I definitely recommend this collection!

I grew up watching the old re-runs of the Little Rascals in the 1980s and watching those shows are some of my most vivid childhood memories.

In retrospect, why can't viewers accept the fact that this show featured good, clean innocent childhood fun AND yet also had some racist undertones consistent with the times?

To say this show wasn't groundbreaking and hilarious, is to ignore the facts. But to say that this show, looking back, didn't have some racist undertones is also to ignore the facts.

Look at Amos-N-Andy. A large portion of the Black Community in the 1950s refused to watch this program because of its overtly racist undertones, and yet a lot of those same people will admit today that it's hard NOT to laugh at some of the humor.

You just have to be honest and be real when watching old footage of Hollywood shows like these.

I'll continue to laugh when I watch these episodes, but in adulthood, it's hard not to also think back to what living in the 1920s and '30s was like for my family -- it wasn't always all fun and games (and no doubt, we all know that TV & Hollywood images have proven to be equally empowering & damaging for a number of reasons).

Little Rascals should serve as the ultimate history lesson.

Great writing & great comedy are timeless. This kind of racism, no matter how blatant or hidden,is dated.

These DVDs attest to that.

This DVD brought back so many memories of watching the Little Rascals when I was growing up. We watched them on UHF channel 52 in LA, I think! Wow, seems like just yesterday. I plan to purchase more volumes so I can reminisce some more. My fave is when Spanky was a toddler on the train and he kept punching the very patient caregiver in the nose. I cried laughing. My kids thought I had lost my mind.

BOught this for my principal and this made him very happy..brought back many childhood memories...thank you very much
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PERFECT CONDITION,, I GOT IT FAST, MY KIDS LOVE IT, THEY WATCH IT OVER AND OVER.

I grew up with the little rascals so I am a bit prejudice. I would have absolutely love to have met Hal Roach. What a genius. This brings back fond childhood memories. As for the dvd itself, It came in prestine condition and plays beautifully. The seller shipped promptly and I rec'd in great condition. Thank you