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Brad Kimball
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From: Highland Mills, NY USA
Registered: Jun 2003


 - posted January 02, 2014 05:59 PM      Profile for Brad Kimball   Email Brad Kimball   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Watched this again after about 10 years of not having run it. I'm sure we've all seen the short so I won't go on about the story. The print is one of the sharpest I've seen in the Columbia 8mm Stooges canon. The sound is also very crisp with plenty of treble. The nice thing that the vendor (Triangle), who printed the Columbia library on 8mm, provided was lots of leader before the opening Columbia logo and titles. I would have preferred Columbia had chosen to print "The Ghost Walks" which is what the bulk of the footage was culled from, but this has always been one of my favorite shorts, nonetheless. I've always wondered why Columbia always chose the 'Dead Shemp' titles ("Hot Stuff", "Creeps", etc.) rather than the original shorts from the late '40s that were always so much better. Nonetheless, I definitely recommend "Creeps" from a quality standpoint.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005


 - posted January 03, 2014 12:46 PM      Profile for Osi Osgood   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I agree, a magnificent print, rivaling the 16MM prints of this title. I have this one as well and it's WELL worn, but still fun, and there's something wonderfully perverse about seeing those Stooges faces on little baby bodies!

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Terry Sills
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 - posted January 06, 2014 12:46 PM      Profile for Terry Sills     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
By coincidence I found a Three Stooges film in a Charity shop the other day! A standard 8 boxed sound copy of 'We Want Our Mummy' for £2. It was a Columbia print and on the box it says 'Supersonic sound' and the print and sound quality are very good. I have only recently got to see any of the Stooges films and I must admit to liking their comedy style. Hope I find some more bargains like that.

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