CORN ON THE COP (1934) -- ThreeStooges.net

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Released April 28, 1934
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)

Vitaphone
19.7 min. (Short Subject)

Two hobos (Shemp Howard & Harry Gribbon) try to make a dishonest buck by selling axle grease as 'Happy Foot Salve', a corn remover. They soon cross paths with a cop, and circumstances have them mistaken by the cop's wife as his visiting nephews.

Avg. Rating:

[7.23/10]

Cast List

Shemp Howard
Reginald

Harry Gribbon
Hobo

Mary Doran
Alice

Boyd Davis
Bob

Tony Hughes
Man in railyard

Charles Howard
Little man with sore feet

Herbert Warren
Judge

Valerie Bergere
Neighbor woman

Unidentified CORN ON THE COP 1
Ticklish salve customer

Unidentified CORN ON THE COP 2
Miss Piffle

Unidentified CORN ON THE COP 3
Deliveryman

Unidentified CORN ON THE COP 4
Salve customers

Production Crew

Ralph Staub
Director

Jack Henley
Story

Dolph Singer
Story

Edwin B. DuPar
Photography

Stooge Businesses (0)

Stooge Goofs (1)

Stooge Mayhem (Avg. 0.00)

Re: CORN ON THE COP
Posted 2009-12-12 18:00:22 by falsealarms

Great short. The sledgehammer gag was great and the scenes with the unsuspecting wife were even better. Shemp steals the show, completely outshining Gribbon.

Reviewer's Rating:

(9)

Re: CORN ON THE COP
Posted 2003-04-05 03:46:00 by [Deleted Member]

Funny short, with Shemp playing opposite veteran stage comic Harry Gribbon. This team works a lot better than the pointless Shemp and Jack Haley pairing in "Salt Water Daffy." Shemp and Gribbon are much more on the same comedy wavelength, playing a couple of scheming hoboes, and it's too bad they didn't make a few more films together. There's not much biographical information available on Harry Gribbon, except that he started out on the New York variety stage and had a sporadic movie career that lasted ten years, from 1923-33, including a part in Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman." He's a funny guy, and it's nice that some of his work is preserved on film.

Reviewer's Rating:

(8)

Re: CORN ON THE COP
Posted 2002-03-26 10:14:00 by [Deleted Member]

GREAT short! Shemp was much funnier than his partner for this short, Harry Gribbon. Harry wasn't bad, though.Shemp whacking peoples feet to drum up business is a premise that would be used later in the Stooges shorts, "Ants in the Pantry" and it's remake, "Pest Man Wins".You must realize that when Shemp whacked people's feet, whether or not they had corns, it would've hurt! That was part of the comedy that made this short great. Even if they were all supposed to have corns, how would Shemp know just the right place on the foot to hit them?Larry: You know, fish is good brain food.Moe: You know, you should fish for a whale! (SLAP)

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Prod. No.:	1658-1659
Shooting Days:	3 days From: 1933-12-09 To: 1933-12-12

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