What Stooge shorts work before what features?

metaldams · **on:** June 12, 2019, 08:22:34 PM

Have fun, be creative. Examples.

You Nazty Spy and I’ll Never Heil Again with The Great Dictator

Boobs in Arms and G.I. Wanna Home before a double feature of Buck Privates and Buck Privates Come Home.

larrysfinenose · **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2019, 10:04:58 PM

Uncivil Warriors and Uncivil Warbirds before Gone With The Wind... a little comedy before an epic film.

Umbrella Sam · **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2019, 10:18:45 PM

DISORDER IN THE COURT before TWELVE ANGRY MEN. So, if people complain about not enough court scenes in the latter...well, DISORDER will provide that.

larrysfinenose · **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2019, 11:09:52 AM

Just thought of Punch Drunks and Grips, Grunts and Groans with Raging Bull

Paul Pain · **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2019, 06:33:27 PM

MOVIE MANIACS and STUDIO STOOPS before THE CAMERAMAN

metaldams · **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2019, 08:19:17 PM

Nice job everyone. Keep it up. A few more.

Idle Roomers before Return of the Vampire. Both Columbia films around the same time with a similar wolf man.

Shot in the Frontier before High Noon

Brideless Groom before Seven Chances

Tony Bensley · **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2019, 11:47:36 PM

MEN IN BLACK (1934) before a Dr. Kildare Feature.

Paul Pain · **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2019, 01:13:18 PM

THREE HAMS ON RYE before ALL ABOUT EVE
THREE MISSING LINKS and THE SITTERDOWNERS before Keaton's THE THREE AGES

OUTER SPACE JITTERS and SPACE SHIP SAPPY before HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL
as opposed to...
FLYING SAUCER DAFFY before THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT

Tony Bensley · **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2019, 05:02:38 PM

YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA (1939), and PHONY EXPRESS (1943), before THE OUTLAWS IS COMING (1965).

CHEERS!

Umbrella Sam · **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2019, 06:18:37 PM

Here’s another one: WHAT’S THE MATADOR before THE THREE CABALLEROS.

metaldams · **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2019, 06:36:08 PM

Three Little Pigskins with Horse Feathers

Hoi Polloi with Trading Places (1983) - Similar plots

A Merry Mix Up with Our Relations

metaldams · **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2019, 08:29:30 PM

As a fan of old b horror movies, I’d love to see this bill. However, look on tHe bottom of the poster below. The year is 1941, a shame we don’t know what short.

larrysfinenose · **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2019, 10:28:57 PM

Quote from: metaldams on June 25, 2019, 08:29:30 PM

As a fan of old b horror movies, I’d love to see this bill. However, look on tHe bottom of the poster below. The year is 1941, a shame we don’t know what short.

If I could make an educated guess, perhaps All the World's a Stooge or Dutiful but Dumb? Those were their newest releases at that time, but I'm sure they showed older shorts, too. Who knows? If so, We Want Our Mummy would be a good short with that lineup.

metaldams · **Reply #13 on:** June 26, 2019, 08:23:50 AM

Quote from: larrysfinenose on June 25, 2019, 10:28:57 PM

If I could make an educated guess, perhaps All the World's a Stooge or Dutiful but Dumb? Those were their newest releases at that time, but I'm sure they showed older shorts, too. Who knows? If so, We Want Our Mummy would be a good short with that lineup.

Yeah, you raised the right question. Did they show older shorts or only new ones? A topic worth researching.

Paul Pain · **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2019, 08:54:07 AM

Well, they certainly recycled them in the 1950s and the 1960s when the Besser shorts and Curly Joe films were still in production... that's why some of the non-Stooge shorts we have today survived.

Tony Bensley · **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2019, 01:09:01 AM

Quote from: larrysfinenose on June 25, 2019, 10:28:57 PM

If I could make an educated guess, perhaps All the World's a Stooge or Dutiful but Dumb? Those were their newest releases at that time, but I'm sure they showed older shorts, too. Who knows? If so, We Want Our Mummy would be a good short with that lineup.

One thing I've found in using imdb.com for referencing 3 stooges shorts, is the number of them that were named after feature length films. Besides the more obvious ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE (1917), there's also BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1928).

CHEERS!

Tony Bensley · **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2019, 10:53:04 AM

BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1928) is sadly, listed as a Lost Film: http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnetiffany.html

metaldams · **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2019, 11:58:15 AM

Quote from: Tony Bensley on June 28, 2019, 01:09:01 AM

One thing I've found in using imdb.com for referencing 3 stooges shorts, is the number of them that were named after feature length films. Besides the more obvious ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE (1917), there's also BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB (1928).

CHEERS!

All The World’s A Stage is a line from a Shakespeare play which is what I imagine the Stooge title is parodying. It was also later a live album from your greatest countrymen, Rush.

Tony Bensley · **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2019, 02:05:14 PM

Quote from: metaldams on June 28, 2019, 11:58:15 AM

All The World’s A Stage is a line from a Shakespeare play which is what I imagine the Stooge title is parodying. It was also later a live album from your greatest countrymen, Rush.

I was referring to the line as being the obvious originator of the Stooges derivative parody title. I'm well aware of it originating from Shakespeare and it being the name of a RUSH double live LP. That it was a 1917 silent isn't at all obvious, and was poorly worded, on my part.

CHEERS!

Paul Pain · **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2019, 08:28:07 AM

BOOTY AND THE BEAST before IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

larrysfinenose · **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2019, 01:07:08 PM

If a Body Meets a Body before House on Haunted Hill. The Vincent Price version, of course.

Moose Malloy · **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2019, 11:06:32 AM

Hey! That's not McIntire

WITH

Hey! That's Mrs. Robinson

Paul Pain · **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2019, 12:24:46 PM

Quote from: Moose Malloy on July 02, 2019, 11:06:32 AM

Hey! That's not McIntire

WITH

Hey! That's Mrs. Robinson

Along those lines, how about SPOOKS and THREE MISSING LINKS before KING KONG?

metaldams · **Reply #23 on:** July 04, 2019, 09:09:41 AM

Spooks with House of Wax (1953)

Both 3D films and I’ve ironically never seen either in 3D.

Tony Bensley · **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2019, 11:35:57 AM

Quote from: metaldams on July 04, 2019, 09:09:41 AM

Spooks with House of Wax (1953)

Both 3D films and I’ve ironically never seen either in 3D.

I've seen both in 3-D, but only the sub-par DVD version of the former.

It was over 35 years ago that I saw HOUSE OF WAX (1953) in 3-D at The Reportory Theatre in downtown London, not far from where we now live. That was quite an experience!

CHEERS!