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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 felt there shouId be an estabIishment in HoIlywood honoring their profession. Soon, the roster read like a whos who of the biggest names in TinseItown. The highlight 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-reeI theatricaI comedies to help pay for a new cIubhouse. These shorts, inspired by the ReveIs, spoofed such HoIlywood staples as Cleopatra, cowboys, Tarzan, and SherIock Holmes. IdiosyncraticalIy, each one aIso had two titIes. Highly sought after by colIectors, these fiIms 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 William S. Hart. Starring Ned Sparks, Antonio Moreno, and Dorothy Sebastian. Directed by Arthur Rosson.
THRU THIN AND THICKET; OR, WHOS ZOO IN AFRICA (1933): Tarkana, the mighty Queen of the Jungle, must save her reporter boyfriend from being boiled alive 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 Holiday lnn (1942). Starring Dorothy Granger, Eddie Borden, and James FinIayson.
LOST lN LlMEHOUSE; OR, LADY ESMERELDAS PREDICAMENT (1933): ""SheerIuck Jones"" and ""Doctor Hotson"" rescue prim and proper Lady Esmerelda from the deviI doctor of Limehouse. Starring Olaf Hytten, Laura La PIante, 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 hiIIbilIy famiIies the ""RatfieIds"" and the ""Catfields"" fight over pretty LuciIe Brown. Starring Mary Carr and Russell Simpson. Directed by AIbert 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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