Soup to nuts [videorecording] / Fox Film Corporation.
Material type:
FilmLanguage: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.Edition: Full frame edDescription: 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Director, Benjamin Stoloff ; original screen story/dialogue, Rube Goldberg ; music, Cliff Friend, James Monaco.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Soup to | Available | 33111006599480 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Popular Broadway comedian Ted Healy (sort of a Milton Berle without the charm) was tapped for potential movie stardom by Fox Studios, who cast Healy in the wacky semi-musical comedy Soup to Nuts. The film was written by comic-strip artist Rube Goldberg (who also appears in the film), utilizing several of Goldberg's zanier comedy notions, including his incredibly complex "inventions." Healy plays a fireman who comes to the rescue of Mr. Schmidt (Charles Winninger) when the latter's costume shop faces foreclosure. Our hero's get-rich-quick schemes generally come acropper, but all is resolved in the climactic scene wherein Healy and his fellow smoke-eaters rescue Schmidt's daughter Louise (Lucille Browne) and her millionaire sweetheart (Stanley Smith) from a roaring blaze. Only recently made available for reappraisal, Soup to Nuts is of inestimable historical value as the movie debut of Ted Healy's Three "Stooges" Moe Howard (billed as Harry Howard), Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine, here joined for the first and last time by a fourth stooge, the relentlessly unfunny Fred Sanborn. Though somewhat restrained throughout the film, the Stooges enliven several otherwise plodding scenes with their tried-and-true material. The best bits included the gruesome threesome's opening song ("You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are") -- in which they stand stock still and flinch not an inch as Sanborn drops heavy sandbags in their vicinity -- and a hilarious extended routine at a costume party, culminating with Larry's deadpan "elevator dance" ("No steps!"). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
"Full frame: this film is presented in a full frame format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition"--Container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1930.
Special features: Snow White and the Three Stooges trailer; scene selection.
Director, Benjamin Stoloff ; original screen story/dialogue, Rube Goldberg ; music, Cliff Friend, James Monaco.
Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Frances McCoy, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Shemp Howard, Stanley Smith, Harry Howard, Hallam Cooley, Fred Sanborn, Larry Fine.
"It's bad enough that costume shop owner Otto Schmidt is headed for bankruptcy, but one of his creditors is also being rejected by his niece Louise. Then sparks fly when Louise is pulled from a raging fire by a courageous fireman and his zany cohorts"--Container.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD.
Close captioned for the hearing impaired.
In English with optional English or Spanish subtitled versions.