Three Little pigs is the fourth short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio . . . → Read More: The Three Stooges – Three Little Pigskins (1934)]]> Directed by: Raymond McCarey
Produced by: Jules White
Written by: Felix Adler, Griffin Jay.
Starring: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lucille Ball, Gertie Green, Phyllis Crane, Walter Long, Roger Moore, Dutch Hendrian.

Three Little pigs is the fourth short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

From the film as vagrants on the street asking for money for pedestrians, the trio is “recruited” by a school to drum up publicity for the football team from the university to be dressed as football players. Meanwhile, the owner of a professional football team, Joe batteries, you have to find three new players for the next game. One of the girlfriends of Joe soon meets the Stooges and really confused college football players known as “The Three Caballeros” (a parody of the “Four Horsemen” of Notre Dame Fame). The Stooges go home and meet the girl with two friends.

After blasting each other with bottles of drink, everyone decides to play the game of “grub.” The Stooges are walking blindfolded and trying to find the girls. Just then, Joe and his henchmen walk two inches they pierce the trio and then chase them around the house. One woman finally explains that the three foreigners are actually “The three riders famous, and Joe offered money to play for him.

Unfortunately, Larry, Moe and Curly do not know how to play football. His first match (staged in Hollywood Stadium Gilmore) becomes a fiasco. Realizing they have been scammed, the three managers to turn their guns on the Stooges, beating on the buttocks in an attempt to flee.

“… A marvel of bumps and bruises”

Moe Howard once called three little pigs “a marvel of bumps and bruises”, as it was the first time the Stooges flatly refused to perform a trick. In the film, during the game children are held by photographers to pose for a picture, when football players then face them. Football players were real player’s college football, and the Stooges (whose small stature is evident in this film) were afraid of being hurt. Larry Fine, the smallest and lightest of the three, said the director Raymond McCarey, “Look, we can not do this scene. We are not experts, and if one of these gorillas is upon us, we’ll never be able to complete the picture. I’ve never used before the two, but certainly needed now. “The fact that Curly and Larry both had been wounded a few days before the filming of Three Little pigs (Curly broke his leg riding on the forklift and Larry lost tooth for a blow at the wrong time), reinforced the trio’s decision to opt out of the scene.

McCarey Stooges assured it was safe, saying: “Listen, fellow, you know how to take falls. You’ve done enough of them. It will take hours to find double for you. And we can not afford. Do not worry, it hurts.”

Moe Howard dryness under McCarey, saying: “You’re damn right it does not get hurt. We’re not doing the scene.”

Less than an hour after the exchange, the study found three double-doubles made up to look like the Stooges. McCarey shouted “action” and all hell broke loose. Two of the three were seriously injured with broken limbs, like the four photographers. The trick is not only twice the damage was the duplication of a Curly Howard and the filling had to look like the crazy roundabout. Moe Howard said later in his autobiography that “McCarey was speechless and sat in his director’s chair with his head in his hands.”

Punch Drunks is the second short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

The fight . . . → Read More: The Three Stooges – Punch Drunks]]> Directed by: Lou Breslow
Produced by: Jules White
Written by: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jerry Howard,Jack Cluett.

Punch Drunks is the second short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

The fight boxing manager Moe is having lunch with several partners, he realizes his shy bartender (curly) goes crazy every time he hears the song “Pop Goes the Weasel.” Moe also notes a violinist (Larry), who happens to play the melody powerful in the restaurant. Seeing $ $ $ on uncontrollable bartender, Moe quickly the two cohorts unsuspecting recruits and prepares them for the world of boxing. Curly handle boxing becomes “KO Stradivarius,” and with Larry in tow playing “Pop Goes the Weasel” in every boxing match, Curly becomes the number one contender for the heavyweight championship.

All goes well until the night of the highly anticipated World Championship match with incredible Kilduff (Al-Hill). Just a few minutes in the first round, the Kilduff plants a left hook to curl, sending the crowd, landing on Larry and crushing his violin. Frantic, Larry sneaks are streets, looking for something that is playing “Pop Goes the Weasel” while Curly was battered by the boxer.

Larry manages to come across trucks a political campaign song blaring from its speakers and races at the track, crashing through a wall. Curly is almost ready to throw in the towel until he hears “Pop Goes the Weasel.” Wobbily boxer comes to his feet with renewed energy, and Kilduff calls in seconds, winning the fight. With the song keeps playing, but also hits Moe and Larry, and then walks toward the camera (the viewer) “woo-woo” threatening in the iris-out.

The production and the importance

The screenplay for “Punch Drunks” was written by the Stooges themselves, their only on-screen writing credit for short-Columbia as Jerry Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard. According to Moe, the initial treatment of the script was originated by Moe, in his strength, the studio decided to produce the film with the Stooges’ ahead of schedule.

In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

Notes

• This film appears briefly in the movie “Daddy Day Care.”
• This film was originally called “a symphony of punches,” but was changed before release. Punch Drunks is the title of “Punch Drunk”, in reference to any fighter who has been beaten so many times that is unstable on his feet.
• A colorized version of the film was released in 2004 as part of the nonsense DVD collection on the loose.
• The film is notable for being one of the few in which the Stooges is a group created at the beginning of the movie, but who meet by chance.
• Jerry Howard natural voice was much more low-pitched voice that has made its “Curly” character.
  This is the first film where Curly calls himself a “victim of circumstance!” (Circumstance) this comment would become a catch-phrases Curly.
• When the Stooges are participating in the first training as a boxer Curly (rowing down the street), Larry is playing a melody on his violin that sounds like “Let’s Fall in Love”, a song sung 23 years later by tiny character (Muriel Landers) in the movie sweet and hot Stooge.
• The “Pop Goes the Weasel” gag was later reused by the Stooges (with Joe Danita) in his 1963 film The Three Stooges go around the world in a dream.
• The short ends with the playing of the song “Pop Goes The Weasel”, which became the opening theme for the short Pop Goes the Easel.
• This is the first of at least four short nuts (including the necks of the horses, shakes, grunts and groans and tassels in the air) in which a passive ripple general sees, hears or smells something that triggers a violent reaction in him.
• The “boxing” in the game of the Three Stooges was based on this short.
• Ripple realizes he is about to fight in Drunks. This Punch was also the first of the nine short listed to play his violin Larry Fine.
  In many images of shares used for the boxing scenes, two men in the audience can see “flip the bird” by holding your middle fingers. This occurs relatively early in the game.
• During the fight, when Larry was seen running down the street, Curry’s voice can be heard in the distance saying, “Run! All the way!” This occurs twice in the film.
• Larry ran down the street is accelerated by comic effect, with post-production sound of quick steps added. His frantic driving the van, with its booming speakers “Pop Goes the Weasel” (same recording as in previous radio), also accelerated.
• The title music uses a single 1930 big band jazz tune called “I Thought I Wanted.” It was composed by Archie Getter who led the last short. The first part was also used in women Haters; the second part was later used in Men in Black.
• Originally, the song “Stars and Stripes Forever” to be used, but the producer did not want to pay royalties, so the song “Pop Goes the Weasel” was selected because it was public.

Woman Haters is the first short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

. . . → Read More: The Three Stooges – Woman Haters (1913)]]> Directed by: Archie Gottler
Produced by: Jules White
Written by: Jerome S. Gottler, Starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard.

Woman Haters is the first short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

The Stooges, employees and vendors, women join Haters Club. They swear never to get romantically involved with a woman. That did not last long. Larry is a woman, Mary (Marjorie White), falls, and proposed marriage. Misogynists Moe and Curly will talk about it, but Mary’s father Larry and makes threatening to marry his daughter very attractive. Later, in a train, it intensifies the confrontation between the Stooges and Mary.

Mary uses her feminine charm to attract both Curly and Moe, in an attempt to Larry jealous. She sings a song (“for you, for you my life my love my everything”) with each of the puppets turn when she flirts with them. Each one is attracted by her charms as it demonstrates the oath he swore as Women Haters was fraudulent. Finally, Mary Moe and Curly tells the truth, she and Larry were married, and makes its way into bed with the trio, Moe and Curly played by the train window in the process. The film ends as the Stooges, old men now, finally reunite (in the clubhouse of the Woman Haters empty) sharing his hatred of women and aging. What happened to Mary is not revealed.

Production background

• This was the sixth entry in the “new musical” Columbia series and the whole movie is done in rhyme. Jazz-Age style plays throughout the short, rhyming spoken in the rhythm of music. The Three Stooges had different names in this short, curly: Jackie, Moe, Tom, Larry, Jim.

• This is one of the few nuts short that features Larry as the main character. Other loans include three lions and cooked his goose.

• Being the sixth in a “New Music” series short film, the film recorded musical score of the first five films. The unforgettable song “My Life, My Love, My All”, appears in this short was originally “At Last!” Film Um-Pa.
  Co-stars Marjorie White (playing the wife of Larry) died a year after this short in a car accident.

• Bud Jamison character delivers the first “eye peeks” to the Stooges, as part of initiation into the Women Haters Club. He peers through Larry’s eyes first, followed by curly. Finally, it provides a boost eye to Moe, who mistakenly blames curly quickly, slaps him, sparking the first real crazy bout the shorts.

• This short includes a young Walter Brennan playing the train conductor that began in the Women’s Club Enemies Moe and Curly.

• Curly gives his first “woo-woo-woo-woo!”And” Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk “in this short, although the latter is eventually delivered to the” classic “style.