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Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 3Rating:
Release Date: 03 August, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $14.99 You SAVE: $4.99! |
Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello 3 Reviews
My Favorite Collection of the Bunch
I have all three Franchise Collections and consider Volume Three to be the best of the best. I owned many of these as a kid on 8mm reels and definitely notice the (much improved) clarity of the DVD versions.
Even though the Production Notes are short for each movie, they are very informative and paint a visual image of the course this team would make from the 40's to 50's (Example: Lou getting Rhumatic fever and going on hiatus for a year during this series of movies).
Have always enjoyed A&C meet Frankenstein but it gets reviewed constantly as their #1. I consider the boxing scene in A&C Meet the Invisible Man funnier than anything in Frankenstein (except maybe Lou's look of fear). And although I enjoy them all, I was a little surprised at just how little Boris Karloff stars in Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. For a 75 minute movie he probably gets 5 minutes of screen time max.
Foreign Legion was another one of my collectibles as a kid and still rates highly on my list (I'm also a "Road to" fan of Bing & Bob). The mirage scenes are some of their best.
Out of all 24 movies in the Franchise Collection (sets 1-3) my only "glitch" movie was Mexican Hayride, which wouldn't play scene 1 at all (froze the screen). But by forwarding to scene 2 the rest of the movie is viewable. That leaves about a 4-5 minute gap from the beginning of the movie which is a shame.
A&C goes to Mars was another of one of my all time favorites.
I even remember owning a version of that spaceship as a kid although I have no clue where it ended up (probably worth a fortune now).
Just curious to see if any more collections will be released. For the money these are timeless classics and shouldn't be missed.
Mine's defected, too... (sigh)
Count me in on the "defected club", since mine freezes on "Mexican Hayride", as well. The reviewer who suggests that the defect claimers are wrong has obviously tested all of these defected copies</sarcasm>. I tried mine on two different DVD players and I can see embedded 'rings' on the surface of the disc just like another reviewer stated (thanks for that tip, btw). Now, I guess I have to go through the inconvenience of returning and trying out each one until I get one that works. That drives up the cost of this collection when you factor in the gas, time, etc., so it's only a bargain if you don't get the chamber with a bullet in it. Universal should farm out their releases to another publisher, since they clearly don't care about quality control. They're in the same league as the public domain crowd, IMHO. My only re-course is to stop buying Universal product entirely (like I had to do with Disney). This is what happens when corporations get so big swallowing up the smaller fish that they lose sight of their customers. In this case, former customer.
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