Well, here I am, the first--and maybe only--party pooper about this particular recycle. As far as "Retreads" go, I will admit this is one of the better ones, but better than Heavenly Daze--not in my book.
I admit, like Of Cash and Hash, the new footage here in Bedlam does look like some thought was put into it as far as trying to create some laughs and maybe improving upon the original as opposed to just churning out a quickie recycle job to sell to the theater owners back in those days who thought they were getting "new" stooge films--but, maybe I'm getting a bit sidetracked.
The opening footage with Shemp dying to me was passable at best--not terrible by any means, but nothing that really tears me up, as opposed to something we'll discuss much later, that being Husbands Beware. The dance with Helen Blazes may be the highpoint of this particular recycle.
But, again, the problem with many of these recycles for me is when the old footage pops up--not that the old stuff isn't funny, but again, if I wanted to see the old footage, I'll just pop in the disc for the original. Also, there are a lot of strange cuts in this one--for instance, the old footage where Moe asks Shemp to give him a smash on the chin & convince him.
Also--I bring this up again--entirely deleting the great "Sam McDaniel"; bad sauce my friends.
I didn't think I would do this much griping about this particular short--again, as far as the rehashes go, not terrible, but for me Heavenly Daze will always be light years ahead of Bedlam...
5 out of 10 pokes....