Product Details

• Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Baskovitch, Alice Belcher
• Directors: Charley Chase, Del Lord, Edward Bernds, Jack White, Jules White
• Writers: Charley Chase, Edward Bernds, Clyde Bruckman
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Run Time: 287 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JMQ1
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,376 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Three Stooges DVD Collection 2 (Three Smart Saps / Cops and Robbers / G.I. Stooge)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Synopsis:
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 12/17/02
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great item, October 24, 2005

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Ryan - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Three Stooges DVD Collection 2 (Three Smart Saps / Cops and Robbers / G.I. Stooge) (DVD)

This is the perfect companion to the other Three Stooges DVD collection here, the one that includes the following DVDs: "Curly Classics," "Spook Louder," and "All The World's A Stooge."

This set features the DVDs "G.I Stooge," "Cops and Robbers," and "Three Smart Saps."

The picture quality varies from short to short, but generally falls into the acceptable range, as does the audio quality. Buying these sets of three will save you a few dollars over buying each release individually.

The short "Who Done It?" is included here, via "Cops and Robbers," and is the highest rated short the Stooges EVER did over at ThreeStooges dot net, a popular Stooges fan site.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too bad Sony/Columbia doesn't respect the Stooges, January 3, 2007

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C. Pavik (Granada Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Three Stooges DVD Collection 2 (Three Smart Saps / Cops and Robbers / G.I. Stooge) (DVD)

My middling rating does not reflect on The Three Stooges, who are, of course fantastic, but as a criticism of Sony/Columbia, which by releasing the Stooges on DVD in the manner it does, shows a tremendous lack of respect for their brilliance, as well as for their commercial success. We all know about how Columbia treated the Stooges so shoddily while they worked for the studio, underpaying them despite the fact that they were one of the studio's most valuable properties; sadly, this disrespect even continues on.

Columbia should be releasing DVD's that honor the Stooges work, not just exploit it. They could easily have made these DVD's into tributes to the Stooge's work at the studio, as historical records of their years of great work. They should have arranged the shorts chronologically, instead of by these bizarre 'themes', often based more upon the titles than the actual content of the shorts. As an example, the 'Three Smart Saps' disc contains five shorts that have the word 'three' in their titles, while 'G.I. Stooges' contains episodes where the Stooges serve in the military (not necessarily the US military, I might add!, OR the merchant marine(BACK FROM THE FRONT), OR just wear enemy uniforms (NO DOUGH BOYS).

This approach makes little sense, and it really breaks down on the 'Cops and Robbers' disc, which includes shorts where the Stooges are private detectives, reporters, firemen AND veterinarians!

Others have pointed out better than I can the other shortcomings of these discs (no special features, only five shorts per disc, etc...).

I would add another complaint that on several of the shorts, there are small snippets of scenes missing, which tells me that Columbia did VERY little work in compiling these discs. The prints ARE excellent, and the sound is good, but it seems that the studio just used the prints they had available, and made no effort to seek out others that were more complete. I KNOW that more complete prints exist, because like all of you, I have seen them for years shown on TV. How miserly and uncaring of Columbia to not put some effort into fully restoring these shorts. It could have been done, but apparently they did not think it worth bothering.

Columbia, SHAME ON YOU!

Despite this, a Stooges fan MUST buy them, because these discs are the only way to get decent-looking copies of these comedic geniuses' work. So, yes I have bought them, and yes, I will buy more of them. But every time I do, I will bear a grudge against Columbia.

Columbia, SHAME ON YOU!

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 stooges 2, September 1, 2006

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Matthew D. Ruhland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Three Stooges DVD Collection 2 (Three Smart Saps / Cops and Robbers / G.I. Stooge) (DVD)

a knockout funny funny collection. Moe Larry Currley and Shemp at thier absolute best. A MUST HAVE.