OT:Update on the Columbia/Charley Chase dvd collection

[Nelson]

I have the latest updated news, regarding the possible Sony release of the Columbia Charley Chase dvd collection.As of this writing, the set should be released sometime this year(no street date announced as of yet)and will feature all of the shorts Chase made at Columbia from 1937 to 1940.Two additional shorts are "tenatatively" scheduled to be included as extras.The shorts will feature two Chase directed comedies featuring the comedy team of Smith And Dale, "A Nag In The Bag"(11-11-38)and "Munity On The Body"(2-10-39).

Will have more details soon.;)

[jazzman78]

That sound's great - now if the Roach sound shorts could only come out of hiding.

HS

[jonmayo15]

Columbia does well with it's shorts. The Buster Keaton and chronological Three Stooges set. Excellent that Charley Chase is getting a good treatment.

[Nelson]

Columbia does well with it's shorts. The Buster Keaton and chronological Three Stooges set. Excellent that Charley Chase is getting a good treatment.

It does surprise me that Sony is going through with the Charley Chase set, despite the Buster Keaton/Columbia collection did poorly, while the Three Stooges series has done very well.As with the Chase/Roach series. Hallmark Entertainment(but more importantly, Lionsgate Home Video)has no interest in releasing the Roach library to dvd.There's even some concern that TCM is no longer running the other Roach series(Chase, Taxi Boys, The Boyfriends, Pitts & Todd etc, etc)in which that has been a major decline in the airing of the Roach shorts, while others think that TCM has a bias against two reel comedy shorts on their channel.

[PlopKat]

Thanks for the update, Nelson. I'm glad to hear that the Charley Chase Columbia shorts are still going to be released. Back in the 1970s, I had a Super 8 Sound copy of "The Heckler" that seemed to get played every time I set up the projector. It was one of my family's favorites (along with Laurel & Hardy's "Them Thar Hills"). I imagine my mom and my four sisters will each have to have their own copy of this set. I wonder if Shemp Howard's remake, "Mr Noisy" will turn up on a future Stooge set.

-PlopKat
"Watch him miss it!"