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Holiday DVD Picks
2 December 2008 2:10 PM, PST
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The Post's Chief Film Critic Lou Lumenick presents 26 DVD Picks for the Holiday Season.
Columbia Pictures Best Picture Collection
Eleven complete features, with supplements, in an album showcasing "It Happened One Night,'' "On the Waterfront,'' "Lawrence of Arabia,'' "Kramer Vs. Kramer'' and 7 other multiple Oscar winners from the storied studio. (Sony, $136).
"The Little Rascals''
O-tay! All 88 sound "Our Gang'' comedies produced by Hal Roach, most restored, in their first authorized DVD collection. Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla and many other gifted child performers (including
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Uncut Spanky? Oh-tay!
28 October 2008 1:05 PM, PDT
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Shorts running 10 to 20 minutes were regularly shown in theaters with feature films into the 1950s, when many of these series began turning up on television. One of the most popular was the "Our Gang" comedies, which were renamed "The Little Rascals" for TV because producer Hal Roach had sold the original name to MGM.
"The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection," out today, features all 80 sound titles that Roach made between 1929 and 1938.
At that point, MGM continued the series with another 52 shorts, mostly inferior and many starring
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