W.C. Fields Comedy Favorites Collection

HAVE YOURSELF A REAL FIELD(S) DAY!
It's amazing to think of the diversity of great, iconic comedians working in Hollywood at the same time during the 1930's: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, The Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals... Certainly among this elite group is the inimitable W.C. Fields, who was, and still is, truly one of a kind with his particular brand of comedy.

This definitive DVD collection includes the lion's share of Fields' work in feature films: INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933), IT'S A GIFT (1934), YOU'RE TELLING ME (1934), THE OLD FASHIONED WAY (1934), MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935), POPPY (1936), YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939), MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940), THE BANK DICK (1940), and NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941). Spread over three single-sided discs, all the films look and sound really nice, and come with optional subtitles but no chapter menus. The single bonus feature is a vintage documentary, "Wayne and Shuster Take...

Budget Reissue of W.C. Fields DVD Collections
The ten films found in this DVD collection were previously released by Universal in two fairly expensive DVD box sets of five films each. Instead of only allowing one movie per disc as seen with the two earlier releases, Universal has opted to either put three or four movies onto each of the three discs found in this collection. Since these particular movies tend to only run about sixty to seventy-five minutes each, putting multiple movies onto each DVD does not present any technical problems to the audio/visual quality of the films. The transfer quality of the films is very good (so good in fact that I wish that Universal would have gone the extra step and presented these films on blu-ray). Even though I already own the two previously released W.C. Fields collections, I have actually purchased two copies of this budget reissue - one for myself as a "back-up" copy and another that I plan to give as a gift next Christmas. Given how inexpensive this set is, you have no excuse if you're...

Great Laughs at a Great Price!
Universal's budget-friendly DVD set combines both volumes of the previously released "W.C. Fields Comedy Collection" - minus the surviving theatrical trailers. Once again, the sole bonus feature is a 1965 Canadian TV documentary with highlights from "If I Had a Million," "Six of a Kind" and "Mississippi." Three generous discs of 100-proof Fields in excellent quality.

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