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From Home Theater Forum, some very exciting news that sounds true!!! :

TVShowsonDVD reports that Genius Products and RHI are releasing a "Little Rascals Collection" DVD set on October 20, 2008.

80 shorts, i.e., the "talkie" era Hal Roach shorts (1929 - 1938) owned by RHI Entertainment will comprise the collection. Suggested retail is $89.98. Box artwork and a more detailed press release are pending.

My Recent Posts · (07/17/08

Count me in, Ms. Crabtree!

My Recent Posts · (07/17/08

"Yum-Yum, eat 'em up!"

I already have most of them (including the silents) on bootleg DVD-R's. They waited too long...I'll only bite if they are stunning transfers. Any mention of extras?

Cromwell

My Recent Posts · (07/17/08

There are mentions of extras, and these are the restored/remastered shorts that appeared on the VHS tape set a few years ago, and are stunning indeed.

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Laughing Gravy wrote:
There are mentions of extras, and these are the restored/remastered shorts that appeared on the VHS tape set a few years ago, and are stunning indeed.

Then it looks like I'm gonna be out 90 clams very soon.

Cromwell

My Recent Posts · (07/18/08

TVShowsonDVD reports that Genius Products and RHI are releasing a "Little Rascals Collection" DVD set on October 20, 2008.

Hey, that's my birthday! (Along with Bela Lugosi & Carla Laemmele's!) Hmmm, sounds like ol' BijouBob may be buying himself a present!

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They'll be uncensored, I hope!

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Yes, they're uncut.

My Recent Posts · (07/18/08

Excellent! Now I can retire those humongous laserdisc sets.

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My Recent Posts · (07/18/08

Now if they can only release THE COMPLETE LAUREL AND HARDY SHORTS, then I'll be in heaven!!!

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If they're the same transfers from the Cabin Fever release, I'm just going to hold onto my old ones, I think. The transfers were good, but nothing to write home to mother about. On the other hand, if they've been remastered since, I'll bite.

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TServo4 wrote:
I'll bite.

"You're gonna have to stand in line..." - Wilbur Grey

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Provided that Genius doesn't somehow screw this up (no reason to think they will), this will be a serious contender for "DVD of the Year". Hopefully they will use new transfers and not just recycle old VHS transfers.

The $90 MSRP will translate into a street price of under $65. On a per short basis, that is comparable to what Sony is charging for the Stooges releases. Maybe a little higher, but Our Gang doesn't have the built in fan base of the Stooges.

If Genius follows this up with a first rate L&H collection they will be heros to me.

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Agreed. This ranks right up there with the Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton (Kino) boxed sets and the British W.C. Fields box for all-time great comedy collections. (The Chaplin set is in a class by itself.)

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pinkfloyd95209 wrote:
Now if they can only release THE COMPLETE LAUREL AND HARDY SHORTS, then I'll be in heaven!!!

There'll be a little taste of Heaven on Turner Classic Movies next month:

23 Saturday
6:00 AM	Short Film: Night Owls (1930)
	Two vagrants try to help a police officer save his reputation. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,
6:25 AM	Short Film: Blotto (1930)
	Stan steals his wife's secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26 mins,
6:55 AM	Short Film: Brats (1930)
	Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,
7:20 AM	Short Film: Hog Wild (1930)
	Two friends try to install a radio antenna, with disastrous results. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,
7:45 AM	Short Film: Be Big (1931)
	Two married men feign illness so they can ditch their wives and attend a lodge party. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin. Dir: James Parrott. BW-28 mins,
8:15 AM	Short Film: Laughing Gravy (1931)
	Roommates try to hide a dog from their grouchy landlord. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall. Dir: James W. Home. BW-20 mins,
8:50 AM	Short Film: Our Wife (1931)
	A man tries to help his best friend elope. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-20 mins,
9:15 AM	Short Film: Pardon Us (1931)
	Selling homemade beer lands a two friends in prison together. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe. Dir: James Parrott. BW-64 mins,
10:30 AM	Short Film: One Good Turn (1931)
	Two vagrants try to repay the kindly old lady who helped them. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-20 mins,
10:55 AM	Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931)
	After being dumped by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver makes Laurel join the Foreign Legion with him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37 mins,
11:35 AM	Short Film: Helpmates (1932)
	A married man has to get his house back in order before his wife returns. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,
12:00 PM	Bonnie Scotland (1935)
	Two Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: James Horne. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC
1:25 PM	Short Film: Fixer Uppers, The (1935)
	Comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have a no fail plan to help a jealous wife woo her husband, but somehow things go wrong. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,
1:50 PM	Them Thar Hills (1934)
	When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-20 mins,
2:15 PM	Tit For Tat (1935)
	A Laurel and Hardy sequel to Them Thar Hills - they open an electrical repair shop and discover that their neighbor/grocer are the same couple they had a run in with in Them Thar Hills. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-19 mins,
2:40 PM	Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934)
	A sea captain hires comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to trick sailors into working on his supposedly haunted boat. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,
3:05 PM	Devil's Brother, The (1933)
	Two wannabe bandits are hired as servants by the real thing. Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
4:40 PM	Short Film: Me and My Pal (1933)
	A groom and his best man get preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle on their way to the wedding. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. BW-20 mins,
5:10 PM	Short Film: Their First Mistake (1932)
	After adopting a baby to save his marriage, a man discovers his wife has left him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: George Marshall. BW-21 mins,
5:35 PM	Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
	Two World War I veterans try help a comrade's orphaned daughter find her family. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway. Dir: George Marshall, Ray McCarey. BW-66 mins, TV-G
6:45 PM	Short Film: Scram! (1932)
	Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins,
7:10 PM	Short Film: County Hospital (1932)
	A hospital visitor wreaks havoc during a routine visit. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,
7:30 PM	Short Film: Chimp, The (1932)
	A jealous husband thinks two tenants sneaking a pet chimp into their apartment are carrying on with his wife. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-25 mins,
8:00 PM	Music Box, The (1932)
	Two men running a moving company have to get a large piano up a daunting flight of stairs. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-29 mins, TV-G
8:35 PM	Sons of the Desert (1933)
	Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G
9:45 PM	Way Out West (1938)
	A pair of tenderfeet try to get the deed to a gold mine to its rightful owner. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-64 mins, TV-G
11:00 PM	Swiss Miss (1938)
	When they're swindled, two salesmen have to work off their debts in a Swiss hotel. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Walter Woolf King. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-65 mins, TV-G
12:15 AM	Block-Heads (1938)
	Chaos erupts when a man tries to help an old war buddy. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Minna Gombell. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-57 mins, TV-G
1:15 AM	Flying Deuces, The (1939)
	Two bumblers join the Foreign Legion to forget a beautiful woman. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. BW-65 mins, TV-G
2:25 AM	Chump at Oxford, A (1939)
	When they accidentally capture a bank robber, two street cleaners are given a scholarship to Oxford. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardey, Wilfred Lucas. Dir: Alfred J. Goulding. BW-63 mins, TV-G
3:30 AM	Saps at Sea (1940)
	Two factory workers accidentally set sail with an escaped killer. Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson. Dir: Gordon M. Douglas. BW-58 mins, TV-G
4:30 AM	Air Raid Wardens (1943)
	A pair of bumblers stumble upon Nazi spies on the home front. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC

My Recent Posts · (07/18/08

HalLane wrote:

pinkfloyd95209 wrote:
Now if they can only release THE COMPLETE LAUREL AND HARDY SHORTS, then I'll be in heaven!!!
There'll be a little taste of Heaven on Turner Classic Movies next month:

23 Saturday

6:00 AM Short Film: Night Owls (1930)

Two vagrants try to help a police officer save his reputation. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,

6:25 AM Short Film: Blotto (1930)

Stan steals his wife's secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26 mins,

6:55 AM Short Film: Brats (1930)

Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,

7:20 AM Short Film: Hog Wild (1930)

Two friends try to install a radio antenna, with disastrous results. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,

7:45 AM Short Film: Be Big (1931)

Two married men feign illness so they can ditch their wives and attend a lodge party. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin. Dir: James Parrott. BW-28 mins,

8:15 AM Short Film: Laughing Gravy (1931)

Roommates try to hide a dog from their grouchy landlord. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall. Dir: James W. Home. BW-20 mins,

8:50 AM Short Film: Our Wife (1931)

A man tries to help his best friend elope. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-20 mins,

9:15 AM Short Film: Pardon Us (1931)

Selling homemade beer lands a two friends in prison together. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe. Dir: James Parrott. BW-64 mins,

10:30 AM Short Film: One Good Turn (1931)

Two vagrants try to repay the kindly old lady who helped them. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-20 mins,

10:55 AM Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931)

After being dumped by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver makes Laurel join the Foreign Legion with him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37 mins,

11:35 AM Short Film: Helpmates (1932)

A married man has to get his house back in order before his wife returns. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Dir: James Parrott. BW-20 mins,

12:00 PM Bonnie Scotland (1935)

Two Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: James Horne. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

1:25 PM Short Film: Fixer Uppers, The (1935)

Comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have a no fail plan to help a jealous wife woo her husband, but somehow things go wrong. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,

1:50 PM Them Thar Hills (1934)

When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-20 mins,

2:15 PM Tit For Tat (1935)

A Laurel and Hardy sequel to Them Thar Hills - they open an electrical repair shop and discover that their neighbor/grocer are the same couple they had a run in with in Them Thar Hills. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-19 mins,

2:40 PM Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934)

A sea captain hires comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to trick sailors into working on his supposedly haunted boat. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,

3:05 PM Devil's Brother, The (1933)

Two wannabe bandits are hired as servants by the real thing. Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC

4:40 PM Short Film: Me and My Pal (1933)

A groom and his best man get preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle on their way to the wedding. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. BW-20 mins,

5:10 PM Short Film: Their First Mistake (1932)

After adopting a baby to save his marriage, a man discovers his wife has left him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: George Marshall. BW-21 mins,

5:35 PM Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

Two World War I veterans try help a comrade's orphaned daughter find her family. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway. Dir: George Marshall, Ray McCarey. BW-66 mins, TV-G

6:45 PM Short Film: Scram! (1932)

Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins,

7:10 PM Short Film: County Hospital (1932)

A hospital visitor wreaks havoc during a routine visit. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,

7:30 PM Short Film: Chimp, The (1932)

A jealous husband thinks two tenants sneaking a pet chimp into their apartment are carrying on with his wife. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-25 mins,

8:00 PM Music Box, The (1932)

Two men running a moving company have to get a large piano up a daunting flight of stairs. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-29 mins, TV-G

8:35 PM Sons of the Desert (1933)

Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G

9:45 PM Way Out West (1938)

11:00 PM

12:15 AM

1:15 AM Flying Deuces, The (1939)

Two bumblers join the Foreign Legion to forget a beautiful woman. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. BW-65 mins, TV-G

2:25 AM

3:30 AM

4:30 AM

I wonder if TCM will present a more definitive THE FLYING DEUCES? All I have seen are the Usual Public Domain Eyesores. Hopefully it will be derived from a decent 35mm print?

My Recent Posts · (07/18/08

I agree, FLYING DEUCES looks not so good.

But some of the shorts they've shown already look AOK. I'd buy 'em on DVD if they were available.

(Btw, floyd, you can delete that lo-ong fershlugginer list from a quoted post, to avoid redundancy, if ever you're so inclined

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My Recent Posts · (07/19/08

I know that I'll be recording many of these off TCM that day. I have the old VHS tapes of these already, but these may look better. I think it bodes well for them maybe getting closer to coming out on R1 DVD. People have said that Lionsgate no longer owns them, which is a great thing.

I don't have it, but I've heard that there's a great-looking version of THE FLYING DEUCES on a Kino DVD (I think it's Kino).

My Recent Posts · (07/19/08

I am not sure whether it was Kino or somebody else who released it stateside, but I have the original French release (MK2) and it is jaw-droppingly beautiful. I appreciated FLYING DEUCES much more having seen it in pristine form.

My Recent Posts · (07/19/08

O-tay, Pang!

My Recent Posts · (07/19/08

Laughing Gravy wrote:
I am not sure whether it was Kino or somebody else who released it stateside, but I have the original French release (MK2) and it is jaw-droppingly beautiful. I appreciated FLYING DEUCES much more having seen it in pristine form.

But LG, I recall asking you about it (The KIno, or whatever) some time ago when I first spotted it in the store (Tower) and you said it was gorgeous then. You sure you don't have it?

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