STUDIO STOOPS (1950) -- ThreeStooges.net

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Released October 05, 1950
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp

Columbia
16 min. (Short Subject)

The Stooges are exterminators mistaken for B.O. Pictures' publicity department. In order to make the studio's lovely new actress famous overnight, they come up with a plan to fake her kidnapping, but some gangsters overhear them and plan to make it real. It's up to the Stooges to rescue Miss Devore themselves, when the Police Captain dismisses their story as just a publicity stunt.

The best gag of the short may be Shemp hiding in a garment bag in the hotel room closet. He manages to get out of the closet and wanders through an amazing unbarricaded French window onto the narrow ledge surrounding the hotel on the 14th floor. This gag was adapted from Buster Keaton's SO YOU WON'T SQUAWK (Columbia 1941).

Avg. Rating:

[9.51/10]

Cast List

Shemp Howard
Shemp

Moe Howard
Moe

Larry Fine
Larry

Ted Stanhope
J. B. Fletcher

Christine McIntyre
Dolly Devore

Kenneth MacDonald
Dandy Dawson

Joe Palma
Louie

Charles Jordan
Tiny

Vernon Dent
Capt. Casey

Stanley Price
Brown

Charles Hamilton
Policeman

Harold Breen
Larry's stand-in

Johnny Kascier
Moe's stand-in

Charles Cross
Shemp's stand-in

Unidentified STUDIO STOOPS 1
Detectives

Unidentified STUDIO STOOPS 2
Woman on balcony

Production Crew

Hugh McCollum
Producer

Edward Bernds
Director

Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay

Vincent Farrar
Director of Photography

Henry DeMond
Film Editor

Charles Clague
Art Director

Gilbert Kay
Assistant Director

Stooge Businesses (3)

Stooge Goofs (3)

Stooge Mayhem (Avg. 2.50)

Re: STUDIO STOOPS
Posted 2001-10-01 12:14:00 by Shemp_Diesel
Edited 2015-07-22 19:46:19 by Shemp_Diesel

Shemp hanging from the ledge keeps the second half of this interesting as does Larry's "open the door" exchange with Moe. The funniest stuff for me is in the beginning--Moe:Do I look like a termite, 3 watches gag, Shemp's maha like gibberish at the typewriter & Vernon Dent demonstrating on him the beating he'll get if he bothers him again.

8 pokes

Reviewer's Rating:

(8)

Re: STUDIO STOOPS
Posted 2008-04-07 13:19:32 by Moe Hailstone

One of my top ten Three Stooges shorts easily, and possibly my best Shemp short. The amount of jokes and action in this film is great, and the whole cast did a great job.

Kenneth Johnson was once again great as the bad guy. Christine McIntyre played the role of the damsel in distress perfectly. Vernon Dent was the good guy who didn't want to be bothered by the Stooges (and who does?). I've watched this short many times, and it never gets old.

The joke between Larry and Moe about the door is a timeless classic. I also enjoyed the jokes during the typewriter scene and with Brown from the Sun. :D

4 eye pokes easily from me. I would give more, but I can't.

Reviewer's Rating:

(10)

Re: STUDIO STOOPS
Posted 2003-04-20 04:50:00 by Bruckman

Select Harold Lloyd-inspired goofiness (Shemp in the garment bag is derived from Lloyd in a mail sack in FEET FIRST, and dangling from the telephone is a reworking of a gag from Laurel and Hardy's SAPS AT SEA), this is an unusual combination of verbal humor and thrill comedy, hinging on a turnabout "boy-who-cried-Wolf" themed plot. Janitors turned PR agents Stooges indulge in some ripe vaudevillian dialogue but the spotlight here is really on Shemp, whether he's taking dictation, waiting for the green light in order to fall off the building, or being told by a phone operator (in answer to his "What do you think I am, silly?") that she cannot give out that information; he's visually hilarious too, in his Hollywood" getup of beret, sportscoat and cravat, an ensemble which arouses Moe's sympathy when he thinks Shemp's fallen to his demise. "I'm Brown from the 'Sun'".

Reviewer's Rating:

(9)

Re: STUDIO STOOPS
Posted 2001-10-05 15:29:00 by jaronson

One of my favorite Shemp shorts, but I don't understand why stand-ins were used for all three stooges. Anyway, the whole part when Moe, Larry and Christine are pulling Shemp was really funny.Grade: A

Reviewer's Rating:

(10)

Re: STUDIO STOOPS
Posted 2001-01-07 19:53:00 by Mike Holme

This short was a pretty funny short, the typing scene was funny, and the ending was good when Moe and Larry take a bath with their clothes on, and Shemp gets a girlfriend.

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Prod. No.:	4143
Shooting Days:	4 days From: 1949-02-22 To: 1949-02-25

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