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Released July 26, 1940
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
16.5 min. (Short Subject)

The Stooges are itinerate tinkers who are not above "creating" work, and are caught punching holes in workers' lunchboxes and have to run away. They end up on a skyscraper construction site and pass themselves off as "the best riveters that ever riveted," where they get put to work... on the 97th story!

Bruce Bennett played Tarzan in a 1938 serial under his real name, Herman Brix. He later enjoyed success in several film classics through the 1950s, among them THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (1948) and MILDRED PIERCE (1945).

A transcription of a deleted sequence with Lucille Lund, and a couple more scenes that did not make the final cut of HOW HIGH IS UP?, is presented in The Three Stooges Journal # 123 (Fall 2007).

In the construction site scenes, several of the actors have multiple roles, changing their wardrobe slightly as needed from scene to scene... in the line of job applicants turned away, riveters, and girder crew.

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Frank Mills
Street workman

Victor Travers
Man on street

Marjorie Kane
Woman on street

Bruce Bennett
Workman with leaky lunchpail

Sam Lufkin
Workman on lunch break

Edmund Cobb
Construction foreman

Vernon Dent
Mr. Blake

Cy Schindell
Supervisor with Blake

Bert Young
Workmen

Lucille Lund
Housewife, scene deleted

Charles Hamilton
Husband, scene deleted

Unidentified HOW HIGH IS UP? 4
Workmen on lunch break


Del Lord
Producer

Del Lord
Director

Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay

Allen G. Siegler
Director of Photography

Arthur Seid
Film Editor



















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