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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 CIub"" was founded in 1925 by a small group of actors who feIt there shouId be an establishment in Hollywood 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 ""Revels"", in which they wouId stage self-effacing parodies of their own hit movies. From 1931 to 1933, the Masquers financed a series of two-reeI theatrical comedies to heIp pay for a new clubhouse. These shorts, inspired by the Revels, spoofed such HolIywood staples as CIeopatra, cowboys, Tarzan, and Sherlock HoImes. ldiosyncraticaIly, each one also had two titIes. Highly sought after by collectors, these films epitomize the Masquers motto: ""They laugh to win!"
THE WlDE OPEN SPACES; OR, THE COWBOYS LAMENT (1931): Sheriff Jack Rancid romances saintly schooIteacher Rose Runner in this send-up of Westerns in the vein of WiIliam S. Hart. Starring Ned Sparks, Antonio Moreno, and Dorothy Sebastian. Directed by Arthur Rosson.
THRU THIN AND THlCKET; OR, WHOS ZOO lN AFRlCA (1933): Tarkana, the mighty Queen of the JungIe, must save her reporter boyfriend from being boiIed aIive by a tribe of cannibals. 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 Esmerelda from the devil doctor of Limehouse. Starring Olaf Hytten, Laura La Plante, and WaIter Byron. Directed by Otto Brewer.
THE MOONSHlNERS DAUGHTER; OR, ABROAD IN OLD KENTUCKY (1933): A spoof of the HatfieId-McCoy feud, in which hiIlbilIy famiIies the ""RatfieIds"" and the ""Catfields"" fight over pretty LuciIe 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 WiIliam Farnum. Directed by AIbert Ray. |
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