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Released June 29, 1943
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia Pictures
69 min. (Feature Film)

Moe, Larry and Curly filmed a scene for this wartime feature on April 16, 1943, performing the old burlesque routine "Niagara Falls." The bit, along with a song by Nan Wynn, were scripted as a lunchbreak entertainment show for shipyard workers. The scenes were cut before YATES' release, but Jules White saved the Stooges' footage and used it one year later in GENTS WITHOUT CENTS (1944).

Beloved military school instructor Oliver Yates enlists, after arranging for his teaching deferrment to be waived. But he is quickly disappointed to learn that a punctured eardrum classifies him as 4-F. Not wanting to let down the young cadets who look up to him, he perpetrates a hoax with the help of boyhood friend Joe Briggs, allowing them to think he's in boot camp. Meanwhile he takes a job in the Long Beach shipyards, and begins treatments to heal his ear in the hope that he can reenlist and pass a new physical. But his "white lie" hoax backfires when the cadets learn he's not in the Army, and his rival Charlie Edmonds (Tom Neal) for the affections of Ruth Jones (Claire Trevor) becomes convinced that Ollie is either AWOL or a Nazi spy. Soon, Ollie learns that the cadets' faith in him isn't all that's at risk, when Charlie begins organizing the shipyard workers into a lynch mob.

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Jess Barker
Oliver Yates

Claire Trevor
Ruth Jones

Tom Neal
Charlie Edmonds

Edgar Buchanan
Jonesy Jones

Albert Basserman
Dr. Carl Hesser

Scotty Beckett
Jimmy Dixon

Frank Sully
Joe Briggs

Henry Armetta
Mike Zaloris

Rosina Galli
Katy Zaloris

Tommy Cook
Johnny Zaloris

Conrad Binyon
Rob Coles

Shimen Ruskin
Peter Milliach

Edward Fielding
Colonel Fredericks

Adia Kuznetzoff
Gregory Rozniloff

Barbara Brown
Lucille Cosgrove

Budd Boetticher
Hocoy McManus

Peggy Converse
Amy Wallace

Douglas Leavitt
Monty King

Lewis Wilson
Mr. Parkhurst

John Hamilton
J. C. Allison

Brian O'Hara
Ralph Potts

Pat Flaherty
Sergeant Moore

Pierre Watkin
Recruiting officer

Neil Reagan
Enlistment officer

Walter James
Citizens committee

Mary Currier
Citizens committee

Field Norton
Citizens committee

Charles K. French
Citizens committee

Scott Seaton
Citizens committee

Bob Perry
Timekeeper

Eddie Hall
Workman at ringside

Blackie Whiteford
Workman at ringside

Al Hill
Workman at ringside

Eddie Fetherston
Workman at ringside

Vi Athens
Welder

Horace McMahon
Truck driver

Nan Wynn
Herself, scene deleted

Larry Fine
Larry, scene deleted

Jerry Howard
Curly, scene deleted

Moe Howard
Moe, scene deleted


Ray Enright
Director

Lou Breslow
Screenplay

Adele Comandini
Screenplay

Philip Tannura
Director of Photography

Richard Fantl
Film Editor

Lionel Banks
Art Director

Edward C. Jewell
Associate Art Director

Frank A. Tuttle
Set Decoration

Jack A. Goodrich
Sound Director

Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director

Theodore Joos
Assistant Director

Jules White
2nd Unit Director, scene deleted

Felix Adler
Stooges material, scene deleted


















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