http://www.threestooges.net/filmography/episode/60http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034987/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1First off, I'm hoping all this board confusion over the past week does not drive a few regulars away. I thought for a few days this weekly review thing suddenly ended, but it's the weekend and we're thankfully still going. I plan to make it through all 190 and beyond, so let's continue, and I hope everybody else joins in as usual.
OK, it's 1942 now, and I think we're still in the tail end of the classic run. LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD is a short that has a clear cut beginning (the boys setting up the plot trying to slip on the bar of soap to sue the hotel, only to change their heart and help the old lady who runs the hotel), a middle (the boys as carpenters causing mayhem), and an end (the night club scene).
The only thing I have to say about the beginning is that as a child of the 80's, the whole premise of the boys trying to earn money to save the old lady's hotel was used as the basis for the Nintendo video game. All the video game people (which I haven't been in the past twenty years), seem to tear this game to shreds, but it holds fond memories for me. Beyond that, the beginning is the least interesting part of the short.
The middle, now we're talking. I don't know why, but I've always been entertained by Curly's creek with the boys song, or whatever the heck he's singing. It's just sounds funny. The part where Curly has the nail pointing in the wrong direction and Moe explaining to Curly that means it's for the other wall (!) has always been a favorite part of mine. Really, the entire middle part is fantastic, a great example of the boys failing at blue collar labor in their prime. It's things like this that make the sun rise every morning.
As for the end, this is the infamous magician's coat gag that Clyde Bruckman previously also wrote for Harold Lloyd's MOVIE CRAZY. Lloyd actually sued because of this. It's been a while since I've seen MOVIE CRAZY, and even longer since old poster Bruckman and I wrote that article comparing the two versions of the gag for The Three Stooges Journal, which I think was about ten years ago. The article itself is at my parent's house, I'm not, and I can't even remember what I wrote. Swell. Anyway, I'll dig up the article on Sunday and watch the Lloyd version tomorrow, but the Stooge version is good fun. I'll do the comparison then, but has anybody else here seen the Lloyd movie?
Another very good short overall. Now to all of you, mingle, or I'll mangle.
8/10