Product Details

• Actors: 100 Years of Comedy
• Format: Black & White, 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: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: PASSPORT VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00009MEGD
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,906 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Here it is! With the centennial of the invention of Motion Pictures comes a program with all the laughs that can be crammed into two hours of non-stop merriment. Journey on a rip-roaring trip through the world of cinema comedy, with the funniest moments in the history of Hollywood, from slapstick of the Silents through he screwball comedies of the 1930's and '40's, to the red hot hi-jinks of Hollywood's most recent comedies!

All the great movie comics are here, from the great comic actors of the past to the laughmakers of today. Here are profiles of all your favorite comedy stars, plus revealing looks at some of the 'forgotten' comics of the Silent and Talkie era. You see the great classic comedians, including: Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and numerous others. Also covered are the comedy superstars of today, including Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson and many more!

Here are scenes from the funniest film ever made, including such silent classics as The Gold Rush, The General, and The Extra Girl, classic screwball comedies such as His Girl Friday, Dinner at Eight, It Happened One Night, and Bringing Up Baby, and the riotous humor of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Beetlejuice, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and dozens more! Plus rare early movie comedy, behind the scenes footage, foreign film fun, mockumentaries, musical comedies, and the unintentional hilarity of movies like Reefer Madness. 100 stars provide hundreds of laughs for a century of a fun-filled film fest.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 100 years of comedy, August 20, 2003

By A Customer

What a great idea to compile the work of all these great comedians onto one DVD. Too bad the idea was carried out by the people who produced this DVD! The film clips (even the more recent ones!) are for the most part extremely poor quality. The film clip soundtracks are so muffled and low in volume that you have to turn up the volume to hear them and then turn the volume back down when the narator begins to speak at a much higher volume. The narrative script is relentless and comes off like an uninspired taped colege lecture. It also overwhelms and distracts from the all too brief film clips (which as I said are mostly of very poor technical quality with horribly muffled sound). The overall effect is very disappointing. I would suggest that the company that produced this DVD recall and start over or give it to a company that has more technical and creative talent. This could have been a great DVD!