3 Classic Comedies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - Jack And The Beanstalk / Utopia / Spooks Run Wild

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Stan Laurel Dvd Release: 7th February, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Jack & the Beanstalk is a fairy tale which is closely associated with the fairy tale of Jack the Giant Killer. The origin of Jack & the Beanstalk is unknown although the author was almost certainly British. The earliest printed edition which has survived is the 1807 book The history of Jack & the bean-stalk. Printed from the original manuscript, never before published although the story was already in existence sometime before this time as a burlesque of the story entitled The Story of Jack Spriggins & the Enchanted Bean was included in the 1734 second edition of Round about our Coal-Fire. The story tells of a poor boy whose lack of common sense exasperates his widowed mother. She sends him to the market to sell their only possession, a cow, but along the way, Jack meets a stranger who offers to buy the cow for five magic beans. Jack is thrilled at the prospect of having magic beans, so he makes the deal. When he arrives at home with his beans, his mother, in despair that they are ruined, throws the beans out the window & the two go to bed without any supper.

Bela Lugosi was the stage name of actor Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső. He was born in Lugos, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, the youngest of four children of a banker. Lugosi started his acting career on the stage in Europe in several Shakespearean plays. He however, became most notably known for his portrayal of Dracula in a stage production of Bram Stoker s classic vampire story. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant for the Central Powers. He left from his native Hungary for Germany in 1919 after persecution following his complicity in the forming of an actors union & emigrated to the United States in 1921. He was most famous for his title role in Tod Browning s Dracula. The film was a success, but Lugosi was typecast as a horror heavy with such movies as White Zombie & Scared to Death. He declined an offer to appear as The Monster in Frankenstein but made an impression as the insane Ygor in two sequels, Son of Frankenstein & Ghost of Frankenstein before finally consenting to play the creature in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Posters Of Bela Lugosi

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Arthur Stanley Jefferson is better known as comedian Stan Laurel. Early youth Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born on June 16, 1890 in his grandparent’s house in Ulverston, North Lancashire. He was the second of five children. His father, A J Jefferson, managed a number of different theatres, his mother was an actress. Arthur lived with his grandparents until the age of six when he then moved in with his father & began his education. As a child, Laurel liked the theatre so much that when he was nine he set up a theatre in the attic & used neighbourhood child as supporting actors. The first school he went to was in Gainford. He later went to school in Bishop Auckland, Tynemouth & in Glasgow, where he finished his education & went to work in the box office of the Metropole Theatre, which his father managed. His father encouraged him to get into theatre management but Stan had other plans. At sixteen, he went to Mr. E Pickard for a ‘try out’ in his theatre. The act went reasonably well. Although his father did not like the idea, he encouraged him in the field of comedy. Posters Of Utopia

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