Tweet The Three Stooges Ultimate Collection Arriving on DVD June 5

I have my on order today for US$45 plus about $1 postage.

Looks like Amazon has dropped their price to match Best Buy.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Stooges ... collection

The big question for me is whether this set will have an uncut version of "Punch Drunks," the Three Stooges second short. The DVD set I have now of the Stooges shorts contains the version that edits out the final scene in the fight ring. After Curly knocks out the other fighter, he continues to knock out everyone else who gets in the ring. Only you don't see that mayhem these days since every version out apparently uses the edited version of this short.

This is a big question for me, too. I don't have the DVD set, but I have not been able to find the uncut version of "Punch Drunks" anywhere else. This was my favorite Stooges short as a child, and I remember the final scene in the fight ring distinctly. To me, the film is just not the same without the mayhem. It was the climactic final scene. Plus it makes no sense to suddenly see all of those people lying on the floor of the ring. How did they get there?

I do hope the original is not lost, as it is truly a classic.

The current set still has the edited version.

What possible reason could there be for that scene being cut?

I'm guessing it's missing from Sony's negative.

Shemp was funny in his own way. But funnier than Curly? No.

I've never once busted out laughing watching Shemp. He'd bring a smile to my face often with his routines, but nothing that would wreck my gut like Curly would do. But to each his own.

Shemp was funny in his own way. But funnier than Curly? No.

I've never once busted out laughing watching Shemp. He'd bring a smile to my face often with his routines, but nothing that would wreck my gut like Curly would do. But to each his own.

I think Shemp got better lines. But Curly delivered his lines better. (If that makes any sense!)

For physical comedy, there's no comparison. Curly was way funnier physically.

Jim

The big question for me is whether this set will have an uncut version of "Punch Drunks," the Three Stooges second short. The DVD set I have now of the Stooges shorts contains the version that edits out the final scene in the fight ring. After Curly knocks out the other fighter, he continues to knock out everyone else who gets in the ring. Only you don't see that mayhem these days since every version out apparently uses the edited version of this short.

This is a big question for me, too. I don't have the DVD set, but I have not been able to find the uncut version of "Punch Drunks" anywhere else. This was my favorite Stooges short as a child, and I remember the final scene in the fight ring distinctly. To me, the film is just not the same without the mayhem. It was the climactic final scene. Plus it makes no sense to suddenly see all of those people lying on the floor of the ring. How did they get there?

I do hope the original is not lost, as it is truly a classic.

Yes that gag has obviously been edited out (as there are unexplained people laying in the ring at the end), but is it possible that it's always been that way and what you're thinking of is the similar ending from "Grips, Grunts And Groans"?

Yes, I guess that is possible. How can we find out for sure? There must be a Stooges expert that has a definitive answer.

At 17:01, there are people lying in the ring that were not there previously. Maybe the original was edited that way, as you point out.

After ingesting the box for a few weeks now, the only fault I see is with the 1953 short "Goof On The Roof"...

Starting with the 3D "Spooks", released a few months prior, all Stooges films were all composed for and released in widescreen. However "Goof On The Roof" was actually shot a year earlier and held back for release, which it was...in the old 1.33 ratio.

For some reason, when this dvd set was put together, they cropped all post "Spooks" releases for widescreen, though this one shouldn't have been. Watching the dvd it's fairly obvious as tops of heads are sometimes cut off. Note that previous transfers of the film don't have this problem.

Go to 2:00 and compare shots in the following clips:

Here's the correct framing...


Here's the incorrect framing on the dvd (ignore that this is a bit squeezed vertically...that's a YouTube encoding fault)