http://www.threestooges.net/filmography/episode/55http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033325/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1First off, one of the best titled Stooge shorts. A play on Shakespeare's "All the World's a Stage" quote, though it's a little known fact Shakespeare himself was actually a plagiarist, as he stole that from the title of a Rush live album.
This short is in the best Stooge era, but I never thought it was one of the better shorts of said era, which means it's still good. I just feel as though there is a missed opportunity at the end. Curly's Limburger cheese as Vick's medicine gag was done better by Harry Langdon is THE STRONG MAN. Langdon's sleepy demeanor and subsequent milking and selling of the cold and the smell the cheese gives off is done more convincingly. Symona Boniface does a great job with what time she has to work with Curly, but it's too brief for my tastes. I guess the ultimate disappointment is the second Moe and Larry run into the high society scene, we get a brief chase, one pie, and a very sudden ending. Given the boys history with a high society party, I feel there was some lost potential.
Speaking of pie, was that the first actual pie thrown in a Stooge short? I know we've had clay and cream puffs projected, but I can't remember a pie until now. I'll look it up to see if I can find an answer, I'm just writing off the top of my head, but I want to say that was the first pie thrown in a Stooge short. Anybody else have care to chip in?
Despite some flaws, still an entertaining short. Larry dressed as a little girl is visual comic gold, and the dentist scene is excellent. Love the concrete and dynamite in the mouth gag, and the opening where it looks like Moe is pulling Curly's tooth only for the edit to reveal he's reaching over Larry as they're both tugging a rope that's pulling Curly up a building is worthy of a Keaton. The boys themselves are also in fine form in this one.
8/10