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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788603273
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0788603272
Label: Mpi Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageUnknown
Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mpi Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 01, 1955
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Jackie Gleason fans will get a bang-zoom out of this collection of three rarely seen (as opposed to "the classic 39," which true brother Raccoons can recite chapter and verse) Honeymooners episodes that aired in 1953 as part of The Jackie Gleason Show. "Letter to the Boss," "Suspense," and "Dinner Guest" were among the so-called "lost episodes" that had not been seen since their original broadcast until their discovery in Gleason's personal archives in the 1980s. While technically crude, they offer a funny and fascinating early glimpse at a classic sitcom and these beloved characters. Bus driver Ralph Kramden, Gleason's signature role, is even more of a volcanic blowhard than in the series. In one shocking, pre-PC moment in "Suspense," he bellows to Audrey Meadows's long-suffering but devoted Alice, "For the first time in our marriage, I'm going to beat you up." One longs for the tender romance of "One of these days, Alice, pow, right in the kisser." The misunderstanding, a time-honored sitcom plot device, fuels the two best episodes. In "Letter," Ralph thinks he has been fired from the bus company after nine years, and he writes a scathing missive to his boss ("You dirty bum"). When he learns he's actually been promoted, he frantically tries to retrieve the letter. In "Suspense," he believes Alice is going to kill him after he overhears her rehearsing for a play. Art Carney's Ed Norton, one of the great TV buddies, shines in the otherwise routine "Dinner Guest" as he demonstrates how to mambo, while Ralph clumsily tries to curry favor with his boss. This DVD also contains a bonus compilation segment, "Ralph Kramden's Greatest Schemes." --Donald Liebenson
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THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW was a very successful variety show in the 1950s, and its finest moments were occasional skits known as "The Honeymooners," relating the tragicomic misadventures of a frustrated blue-collar worker, Ralph Kramden, his wife Alice, and their similarly downscale neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton. Having run these wildly popular skits for years, THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW was "officially" discontinued for one year in the late '50s so that "The Honeymooners" could be filmed as a sitcom. ... Read More
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I have all the dvd's released to date. I love them all. Laugh out loud funny. I am disappointed in the quality of the dvd. It's similar to an old 10mm reel.
True Honeymooner fan that i am, I must own them, there is still nothing funnier.
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I was anticipating MPI's first DVD release of the Honeymooners with much trepidation, having suffered through their completely botched releases of the lost episodes on VHS. And to no one's surprise, their first DVD release is just as bad.
Instead of taking the time and effort to do a quality box set of say, 20 hours of lost episodes, which is now the preferred way to release television series on DVD, a la the X-Files, MPI apparently is going to release these episodes in drips and drabs. The ... Read More
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I have many of the Honeymooners episodes recorded from TV. It is great that I have them on DVD.
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