Product Description

Get an instant library of some of the greatest comedy classics ever to come out of Hollywood on twelve double-sided DVDs. Never has such a comprehensive collection of great classic comedy features been assembled in one exciting package for an amazing low price.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23882 in DVD
• Brand: TREELINE FILMS LTD
• Released on: 2004-05-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 12
• Running time: 3900 minutes

About the Actor
Included: 1. Amazing Adventure, The 2. Angel On My Shoulder 3. As You Like It 4. Baloonatic, The (Silent) 5. Bangville Police, The (Silent) 6. Bear Shooters 7. Beat the Devil 8. Behave Yourself 9. Blacksmith, The 10. Boat, The (Silent) 11. Bowery Blitzkrieg 12. Broadway Limited 13. Clancy Street Boys 14. Daydreams (Silent) 15. East Side Kids 16. Electric House, The (Silent) 17. Eternally Yours 18. Fatty Joins the Force (Silent) 19. Fatty's Spooning Days (Silent) 20. Fatty's Suitless Day (Silent) 21. Follies of Our Gang 22. Front Page, The 23. Ghost Parade 24. Great Mike, The 25. Great Rupert, The 26. Happy Go Lovely 27. Her Painted Hero 28. His Girl Friday 29. It's a Joke Son 30. Just Ramblin' Along 31. La Cucaracha 32. Li'l Abner 33. Love Laughs At Andy Hardy 34. Love, Speed and Thrills (Silent) 35. Made for Each Other 36. Million Dollar Kid 37. Mr. Wise Guy 38. Mud and Sand 39. My Love For Yours 40. My Man Godfrey 41. My Wife's Relations (Silent) 42. One Rainy Afternoon 43. Oranges and Lemons (Silent) 44. Over the Hill Gang Rides Again, The 45. Over the Hill Gang, The 46. Paleface, The (Silent) 47. Passport to Pimlico 48. Playhouse, The (Silent) 49. Pot O'Gold 50. Pride of the Bowery 51. Sandy the Seal 52. Schools Out 53. Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The 54. Smallest Show on Earth, The 55. Smart Alecks 56. Something To Sing About 57. Speak Easily 58. Spooks Run Wild 59. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Silent) 60. Stolen Jools, The 61. Stork Club, The 62. Swing High Swing Low 63. That Uncertain Feeling 64. Three Broadway Girls 65. Three Guys Named Mike 66. Wife and Auto Trouble (Silent) 67. Zis Boom Bah

Customer Reviews

Not a review, just a list of movies in the set
Stan Laurel Festival Stan Laurel
Swing High, Swing Low Carole Lombard
Our Gang Festival Our Gang
Made For Each Other James Stewart
All Star Extravaganza Laurel & Hardy
That Uncertain Feeling Merle Oberon
Fatty Arbuckle Festival Fatty Arbuckle
The Great Rupert Jimmy Durante
Keystone Cops Festival starring Keystone Cops
Something to Sing About starring James Cagney
Buster Keaton Festival starring Buster Keaton
My Man Godfrey starring William Powell
Buster Keaton Classics starring Buster Keaton
One Rainy Afternoon starring Francis Lederer
Steamboat Bill Jr. starring Buster Keaton
The Great Mike starring Stuart Erwin
As You Like It starring Laurence Olivier
Three Guys Named starring Mike Jane Wyman
Speak Easy starring Buster Keaton
The Over The Hill Gang Rides Again starring Walter Brennan
It's a Joke Son starring Kenny Delmar
Angel On My Shoulder starring Paul Muni
Zis Boom Bah starring Grace Hayes
Eternally Yours starring Loretta Young
East Side Kids starring Leon Ames
Happy Go Lovely starring David Niven
Broadway Limited starring Victor McLaglen
The Smallest Show on Earth starring Peter Sellers
The Stork Club starring Betty Hutton
Sandy the Seal starring Heinz Drache
The Amazing Adventure starring Cary Grant
The Front Page starring Adolphe Menjou
My Love For Yours starring Fred MacMurray
Behave Yourself starring Farley Granger
Clancy Street Boys starring East Side Kids
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock starring Harold Lloyd
Pride of the Bowery starring East Side Kids
Beat the Devil starring Humphrey Bogart
Smart Alecks starring East Side Kids
Passport to Pimlico starring Stanley Holloway
Mr Wise Guy starring East Side Kids
Spooks Run Wild starring Bela Lugosi
Million Dollar Kid starring East Side Kids
His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant
Bowery Blitzkrieg starring East Side Kids
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy starring Mickey Rooney
Three Broadway Girls starring Joan Blondell
Pot O'Gold starring James Stewart
L'il Abner starring Buster Keaton
Over the Hill Gang starring Pat O'Brien

Underrated Box of Gems
I'm not sure what box set of comedy classics the majority (certainly not all) of reviewers on this page saw before they commented, but it couldn't have been this set. I'm a pompous DVD snob, and should run screaming from a discount, grab-bag set like this, but I love it. It gets a full five stars because of its selection of classic 30's comedies, its watchable (and sometimes near-perfect) print materials, and its overall heft and value for dollars spent.

First of all, the complaints about the quality of the prints is ridiculous. Most of these films are from the 30's, and even then, the prints are very watchable, with scratches and debris, yes, but very little given the age of the films. Granted, His Girl Friday is a grossly overcut version with plenty of scratches, and is hard to watch, but for every film like this in the collection, there are 7 or 8 others which are surprisingly well-kept, considering their age and the price of the set. I'm watching the films on an HDtv, and if the films were transferred poorly, I'd see it plainly on my tv, but there's no digital artifacts, no combing or ghosting AT ALL. This set would look even better on a tube tv (which wouldn't pick up all the things the HDtv does)! Not only that, there are a few films on this set, including My Man Godfrey, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy, Something to Sing About, Angel on My Shoulder, Beat the Devil and Stork Club, which are in surpringinly fine condition: they are what you'd expect on a regularly priced, single DVD.

This set is full of classic comedies from the 30's, and the films are full of art deco style. From the opening credits to the music, clothing and sets, these films show off the sleek lines and sharp contrasts of that style. Magnificent.

Migawd, this set has Lubitsch! John Huston, Eve Arden, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, William Powell, Carole Lombard, David Niven, Harold Lloyd, Preston Sturges...coupled with the fact that the set is full of rarely seen films, some of which have not been released on proper DVD's, this is a treasure box, people.

Simply put: this set is indispensible to the classic film buff, and at a price which cannot be bettered, I bet. I have a few of the 50 packs, and enjoy each of them very much. Treeline is a fine company, and I'm thankful to them for making available so many great films at a ridiculously low price.

At a first glance it might seem like a good buy but.....
My mom and I bought this collection after buying the 50 Movie Pack Family Classics which we thought was pretty good.But this one was awful!There were only a few really good movies in it His Girl Friday,My Man Godfrey and Steamboat Bill,Jr the last one is a silent film by the way so in this case it did not matter that the film had rather poor sound quality.This however did affect the movie in the case of films such as His Girl Friday,where dialogue is so important,also this film had been cut and was missing a several minutes in different parts of the movie.Some of the silent films such as the ones in The Buster Keaton Festival and Buster Keaton Classics were HORRIBLY blury and I suspect they might have been cut.Many,true not ALL but a good many of the films here were pretty dull,or had such poor picture and sound quality that it was difficult to make out what was going on even if the movie seemed like it might be interesting.Most of these films if you were to look them up in a Film Guide would only get about 2 1/2 stars some only get about 1 star,there are few 3 stars scattered throughout whose picture and sound quality isn't too bad but not enough in my opinion to justify buying this collection.