Overview: The Three Stooges have been entertaining fans with their riotous brand of eye-gouging, face slapping, and head bopping insanity for nearly 100 years!

Now, CINEMUSEUM LLC and KIT PARKER FILMS offer fans of the Amalgamated Morons a chance to revisit the Golden Age of Stoogery with this new 3-Disc collection of archival rarities.

Whether you’re a lifelong Stoogephile, or just a casual knucklehead, you are sure to find something to love about this comprehensive tribute to America’s most beloved madcaps: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe - The Three Stooges!

Over 8 hours of material, including unreleased outtakes, color home movies, rare television appearances and commercials, theatrical trailers, unseen archival interview footage, forgotten audio recordings from live stooge appearances, family photo galleries, and much more new-to-home-video fun!

Blu-ray Verdict: The Three Stooges were an American comedy team noted for violent anarchic slapstick and comedy routines rooted in the burlesque tradition. Six men were members of the team throughout the years: Shemp Howard (original name Samuel Horwitz), Moe Howard (original name Moses Horwitz), Larry Fine (original name Louis Feinberg), Curly Howard (original name Jerome Horwitz), Joe Besser and Joe DeRita (original name Joseph Wardell).

Moe Howard was the first of the Three Stooges to enter show business. He attempted to launch a stage career during the 1910s, acting in everything from burlesque revues to Shakespearean plays, but found little success until 1922, when he formed a comedy act with his older brother, Shemp, and longtime friend Ted Healy.

Larry Fine, a comedian-violinist who had performed in a vaudeville act with his wife, joined Healy and the Howards in 1925. They performed in vaudeville for the next few years and achieved success on Broadway in the late 1920s as stars of Earl Carroll’s Vanities. The act at this point was fronted by Healy, whose attempts at singing or joke telling were frequently interrupted by the absurd antics of the Stooges.

The team appeared in one film, Soup to Nuts (1930); shortly thereafter, Shemp, who disliked the frequently intoxicated Healy, quit the act. He was replaced by another Howard brother, Jerry, who shaved his head to conform to the Stooges’ trademark of bizarre hairstyles (a “bowl” cut for Moe; wild, frizzy curls for Larry), and he was thereafter known to all as “Curly.”

Ted Healy and His Stooges (as they were then billed) appeared in several features and short films during the early 1930s, the most notable among them being Meet the Baron (1933), Dancing Lady (1933), and Hollywood Party (1934). The Stooges became increasingly estranged from Healy — whose mood swings ranged from warm and kindly to violently abusive, depending on his state of sobriety — and in 1934 Moe, Larry, and Curly signed a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures and rechristened themselves the Three Stooges.

During the next 24 years the team appeared in nearly 200 short subjects and a handful of feature films for Columbia. They never received a raise in that time from their original annual salary of $60,000 (split three ways), although their contract allowed them to make personal appearances for 13 weeks each year, which proved much more lucrative.

Containing 11+ hours of film, television, radio, and personal appearances, with over 8 hours of that unseen rarities, along with some brand new programming also, Stooge-O-Rama: The Men Behind The Mayhem And Even More Mayhem! showcases just perfectly The Stooges’ comic style - brash and brazen, characterized by such cartoonishly violent acts as slapping, punching, eye-poking, and hair-pulling, all punctuated by exaggerated sound effects; oh, and they often attacked one another with hammers, saws, and a variety of sharp and blunt objects!

Derided by critics for many years for their lowbrow anarchy, their sheer longevity forced many critics to concede that the team exhibited expert comic timing and a mastery of burlesque-style humor. And in such beautiful finds here as the Lost theatrical featurette SURPRISE, SURPRISE (1937) - starring Moe, Larry, and Curly, and the long unseen short subject EVERYBODY LIKES MUSIC (1934) starring Shemp Howard, you can not only see all that on view from the off, but also bare witness to some of the softer tones exhibited by the wacky gang.

Blu-ray Special Features:
Brand new presentation of the award-winning documentary program STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM, with new introduction by Curly Howard’s real-life grandson, Bradley Server
Lost theatrical featurette SURPRISE, SURPRISE (1937) starring Moe, Larry, and Curly
Long unseen short subject EVERYBODY LIKES MUSIC (1934) starring Shemp Howard
11+ hours of film, television, radio, and personal appearance rarities, many never been released on home video!

Restored and remastered for HD from the best surviving materials.