From 1929 to 1931, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a series of nine short "Dogville" comedy films aka 'barkies' (instead of 'talkies'),

starring trained canines, voice-dubbed by actors, directed by Zion Myers and Jules White, who later worked on "The Three Stooges" comedy shorts:

Films included, "College Hounds", "Hot Dog"...

..."Who Killed Rover?" aka "The Dogville Murder Case"...

..."The Dogway Melody", So Quiet on The Canine Front", "The Big Dog House"...

..."Love-Tails of Morocco"...

..."The Two Barks Brothers"...

...and "Trader Hound".

Click the images to enlarge...

From 1929 to 1931, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a series of nine short "Dogville" comedy films aka 'barkies' (instead of 'talkies'),

starring trained canines, voice-dubbed by actors, directed by Zion Myers and Jules White, who later worked on "The Three Stooges" comedy shorts:

Films included, "College Hounds", "Hot Dog"...

..."Who Killed Rover?" aka "The Dogville Murder Case"...

..."The Dogway Melody", So Quiet on The Canine Front", "The Big Dog House"...

..."Love-Tails of Morocco"...

..."The Two Barks Brothers"...

...and "Trader Hound".

Click the images to enlarge...

From 1929 to 1931, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a series of nine short "Dogville" comedy films, aka 'barkies', instead of 'talkies',

starring trained dogs, voice-dubbed by actors, directed by Zion Myers and Jules White, who later worked on "The Three Stooges" comedy shorts:

Films included, "College Hounds", "Hot Dog", "Who Killed Rover?" aka "The Dogville Murder Case", "The Dogway Melody", "So Quiet on the Canine Front", "The Big Dog House", "Love-Tails of Morocco", "The Two Barks Brothers" and "Trader Hound".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Dogville Barkies"...

Robert Redford movies: TCM shows 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Sting' They don't make movie stars like they used to, back in the days of Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Harry Cohn. That's what nostalgists have been bitching about for the last four or five decades; never mind the fact that movie stars have remained as big as ever despite the demise of the old studio system and the spectacular rise of television more than sixty years ago. This month of January 2015, Turner Classic Movies will be honoring one such post-studio era superstar: Robert Redford. Beginning this Monday evening, January 6, TCM will be presenting 15 Robert Redford movies. Tonight's entries include Redford's two biggest blockbusters, both directed by George Roy Hill and co-starring Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned Redford, already in his early 30s, into a major film star to rival Rudolph Valentino,...

The legendary movie palace The Redford Theatre in Detroit presents a Three Stooges film festival this weekend. Here is the press release:

It’s October and Halloween is only a few weeks away. What better way to start getting ready for that scary holiday than a “Three Stooges Horror Festival”? Join us this weekend for a few frights and loads of hilarity as the Stooges roll through six of their spookiest shorts. “Mummy's Dummies” finds the boys selling used chariots in ancient Egypt (and not quite on the up and up). Soon they find themselves appearing in front of King Rootentootin, (a large and rotund Vernon Dent). Hilarity follows. Strangely, in another one of our features, “We Want Our Mummy”, we find the Stooges back in Egypt several centuries later, looking for the mummy of that same King Rootentootin — who is discovered to be a midget. Go figure. That latter...

By Lee Pfeiffer

It's pretty amazing how many ways studios have devised to market and re-market The Three Stooges. The latest attempt is Sony's made-to-order 3 DVD set titled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault. It's a bit misleading in that the bulk of the material pertains to individual short films starring Stooge cast members, but for this reviewer, that's also what makes the set so special. There are eleven hours of material in the set including two feature films and 28 shorts. The features are Rockin' in the Rockies, a 1945 musical comedy that features the Stooges as inept prospectors in the modern west. The film seems to have been made to promote promising musical talent of the day. The story has the boys kidnapping a Broadway talent agent and holding him hostage until he hears their friends perform their revue, which includes numbers by Spade Cooley, the "King of Western...

A red letter day. There's a new Senses of Cinema out and it opens with the first part of Daniel Fairfax's interview with Jean-Louis Comolli, who edited Cahiers du cinéma from 1965 to 1973. Senses editor Rolando Caputo: "At the time, Cahiers was undergoing its so-called 'Marxist-Leninist' phase, with a heavy overlay of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory." And Slavoj Žižek would have been in his late teens, early 20s. At any rate: "Put simply, at stake was the demystification of the 'cinematic apparatus' to demonstrate how ideology was both embedded within the technology of cinema and an effect of its representational modes."

Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...

The good news for Shemp-o-holics is that Sony has released, as part of their ongoing Three Stooges project, their first all-Shemp set. Last March's release, Volume Five, was Shemp-heavy, but kicked off with the final ten, quite depressing shorts with a badly debilitated Curly as the Third Stooge. Now we've got Shemp from start to finish, and the set includes (and why we note it here) a number of comical fantasy and horror yarns.

Right off the bat, in fact, we're in horror territory with "The Ghost Talks;" that's the good news. The bad news is that it's one of the weaker shorts in this collection--a precursor of the coming Joe Besser/Curly-Joe DeRita "Dark Ages" with a whimsical, kid-friendly "menace" and the Stooges acting like whiny, weepy kids. The storm-swept setting is Smorgasbord Castle where furniture movers Shemp, Larry and Moe encounter a talking suit of armor--the ghost of Peeping Tom,...