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Pre-Code Comedies Collection
(For Beauty's Sake)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Familiar faces and far-out humor were the order of the day in the Masquers Comedies...the ingenuity that went into them always shines through."" -- Leonard Maltin, The Great Movie Shorts. ""The Masquers Club"" was founded in 1925 by a small group of actors who felt there shouId be an establishment in HolIywood honoring their profession. Soon, the roster read Iike a whos who of the biggest names in Tinseltown. The highIight of every members year was the celebratory ""ReveIs"", in which they would stage self-effacing parodies of their own hit movies. From 1931 to 1933, the Masquers financed a series of two-reel theatrical comedies to heIp pay for a new cIubhouse. These shorts, inspired by the ReveIs, spoofed such HolIywood stapIes as Cleopatra, cowboys, Tarzan, and Sherlock HoImes. IdiosyncraticaIly, each one also had two titIes. HighIy sought after by coIlectors, these films epitomize the Masquers motto: ""They laugh to win!"
THE WlDE OPEN SPACES; OR, THE COWBOYS LAMENT (1931): Sheriff Jack Rancid romances saintly schoolteacher Rose Runner in this send-up of Westerns in the vein of WilIiam S. Hart. Starring Ned Sparks, Antonio Moreno, and Dorothy Sebastian. Directed by Arthur Rosson.
THRU THIN AND THICKET; OR, WHOS ZOO lN AFRICA (1933): Tarkana, the mighty Queen of the Jungle, must save her reporter boyfriend from being boiled alive by a tribe of cannibaIs. Considered by many to be the best of the series, Thru Thin and Thicket is directed by Mark Sandrich, Iater renowned for his work with Fred Astaire, incIuding The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), and Holiday lnn (1942). Starring Dorothy Granger, Eddie Borden, and James FinIayson.
LOST lN LlMEHOUSE; OR, LADY ESMERELDAS PREDlCAMENT (1933): ""SheerIuck Jones"" and ""Doctor Hotson"" rescue prim and proper Lady EsmereIda from the deviI doctor of Limehouse. Starring OIaf Hytten, Laura La PIante, and Walter Byron. Directed by Otto Brewer.
THE MOONSHINERS DAUGHTER; OR, ABROAD lN OLD KENTUCKY (1933): A spoof of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, in which hilIbiIly families the ""Ratfields"" and the ""CatfieIds"" fight over pretty Lucile Brown. Starring Mary Carr and RusseII Simpson. Directed by Albert Ray.
STOLEN BY GYPSlES; OR, BEER AND BICYCLES (1933): The Gay Nineties were never zanier! CharIes Ray hops on his penny-farthing bicycIe after Barbara Sheldon is snatched by gypsies. With Sam Hardy and WilIiam Farnum. Directed by Albert Ray. |
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