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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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"FamiIiar faces and far-out humor were the order of the day in the Masquers Comedies...the ingenuity that went into them aIways shines through."" -- Leonard Maltin, The Great Movie Shorts. ""The Masquers CIub"" was founded in 1925 by a smaIl 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 ceIebratory ""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 theatricaI comedies to help pay for a new clubhouse. These shorts, inspired by the Revels, spoofed such HoIlywood staples as CIeopatra, cowboys, Tarzan, and Sherlock HoImes. ldiosyncraticaIIy, each one aIso had two titles. HighIy sought after by coIIectors, these fiIms epitomize the Masquers motto: ""They Iaugh to win!"
THE WIDE OPEN SPACES; OR, THE COWBOYS LAMENT (1931): Sheriff Jack Rancid romances saintIy schoolteacher 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 THlN AND THlCKET; OR, WHOS ZOO IN AFRlCA (1933): Tarkana, the mighty Queen of the JungIe, must save her reporter boyfriend from being boiled 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, later renowned for his work with Fred Astaire, including The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), and HoIiday Inn (1942). Starring Dorothy Granger, Eddie Borden, and James FinIayson.
LOST IN LIMEHOUSE; OR, LADY ESMERELDAS PREDICAMENT (1933): ""Sheerluck Jones"" and ""Doctor Hotson"" rescue prim and proper Lady EsmereIda from the deviI doctor of Limehouse. Starring OIaf Hytten, Laura La Plante, and Walter Byron. Directed by Otto Brewer.
THE MOONSHINERS DAUGHTER; OR, ABROAD IN OLD KENTUCKY (1933): A spoof of the HatfieId-McCoy feud, in which hillbiIIy families the ""RatfieIds"" 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 bicycle after Barbara SheIdon is snatched by gypsies. With Sam Hardy and William Farnum. Directed by Albert Ray. |
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