Why "Soitenly," You're the Best DAD
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
18.1 min. (Short Subject)
Set in the country of Moronica, three men plot to overthrow their king and appoint a dictator. Their choice is a paperhanger named Moe Hailstone. With Curly as his Field Marshal and Larry as his Minister of Propaganda, the boys take control of the country. The citizens are unhappy and drive Hailstone out of power.
YOU NAZTY SPY! was the first American comedy film to be released, satirizing Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany. Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) was in production first.
Scripted sequences from Jules White's files, either unfilmed or deleted from YOU NATZTY SPY!'s final release, are transcribed in The Three Stooges Journal # 112 (Winter 2004).
Costar Lorna Gray (Mattie Herring) was a guest of the 1995 Three Stooges Convention, and the 2004 Fan Club Meeting, both in Philadelphia. See The Three Stooges Journal # 75 (Fall 1995) and Journal # 110 (Summer 2004) for details.
A popular myth about NAZTY is that the Stooges were placed on Hitler's "hate/death" list. This is not true, the product of a 1992 tabloid story, and repeated with additional, fictional details in a 2002 book about the Stooges as well as a 2002 "National Enquirer" article.
Jerry Howard
Curly Gallstone
Moe Howard
Moe Heilstone
Larry Fine
Larry Pebble
Dick Curtis
Mr. Onay
Don Beddoe
Mr. Amscray
Richard Fiske
Mr. Ixnay
Lorna Gray
Mattie Herring
'Little' Billy Rhodes
Gestapo midget
Joe Murphy
Peasant
John Tyrrell
'Train' conductor
Ned Glass
Lead Stormtrooper
Bert Young
Stormtrooper
Chuck Callahan
Stormtrooper
Charles Dorety
Stormtrooper
Florine Dickson
Miss Pfeffernuss
John Tyrrell
Mr. Bones, Minister of Ooomphola
Eddie Laughton
Delegate Vance Rippemup
Al Thompson
Axis Minister
John Rand
Gray-haired Axis Minister
Jules White
Producer
Jules White
Director
Clyde Bruckman
Story and Screenplay
Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay
Harry Davis
Director of Photography
Arthur Seid
Film Editor
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