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Bruckman64
Grapehead
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(1/7/05 1:01 pm)
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In these mid-30s shorts, the Stooges are always on the very edge of society - panhandlers, vagrants, reduced to taking the most menial of unskilled work when they can find it. Even when they do have occupations, they tend to be on the low end of the social scale. How anyone could mistake three men who stand barely five foot four as great football players is beyond me - either you accept this premise or you don't. The football game is reminiscent of that concluding the Marx Bros. HORSE FEATHERS, though it ups the violence level - and check to see how little padding players wore in those days! That scene where the Stooges stop to pose for photographers and all present are subjected to a mass tackle even looks painful. (According to Moe, everyone in that shot, with the exception of Curly's stunt double, sustained injuries and one actor broke his leg). There's a similar sadistic violence in the scene where the gangsters knock each of the Stooges unconscious during the game of "post office", and in director Ray McCarey's re-use of a gag from Laurel and Hardy's PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES, wherein the Stooges fall down a dumbwaiter shaft.
Megaloman
Lamebrain
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(1/8/05 3:06 am)
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another winner- it's always fun to tell people about Lucille's work before "Lucy" cause they don't seem to know she existed before it. like her b-movie with John Agar- "Magic Carpet" or some such.
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DangerkittyToTheRescue
Pumpkinbrain
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(1/9/05 10:43 am)
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Although I couldn't stand the I love Lucy show, that Lucille Ball is a hot dish in this short. Did she appear in any other shorts with the stooges? I bet that the boys didn't mind a couple of extra takes with the girls, spraying their shirts all wet with the seltzer bottles. You know, the girls looked like they were getting a kick out of it!
Curly,,,, "Let's play Post Office!"
Phyllis Crane,,,, "Oh, that's a kid's game."
Curly,,,,"Not the way I play it!"
Daisy,,,,"What are you taking up at college?"
Larry,,,,"Piglatin, Atway areya oingda onighta? You wouldn't know a thing about that would you?"
Daisy,,,,"Oh, Onay!"
Larry,,,,"Wait a minute, what's this blind mans bluff?"
Moe,,,,"If it's what I think it is, then we're going home."
Curly,,,"Not me, I'm staying!"
Moe,,,,"Staying?" (blasts Curly with seltzer bottle)
Curly,,,,"I'm still staying!"
Moe,,,,"Staying?!" (slaps Curly)
Curly,,,,"I don't know now, you,,,,."
Just a couple of things that crack me up in this short. Did anyone else catch the goofy helmets the boys are wearing during the game? Did anyone see the car roll downhill after the boys retrieve the hat for the lady? Did anyone notice the bullet holes in the back of the pants before the boys get shot up by the gangsters?
Lunkhead
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(1/13/05 7:25 pm)
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Did anyone else catch the goofy helmets the boys are wearing during the game?
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Good catch Kitty. Actually, football gear looked a whole lot different back in the 30's as opposed to today. The helmet Moe wears is legit. It's the same as the other players on the teams during the game.
In this earlier scene, Curly and Larry are wearing helmets more similar to Moe's:
But during the game, Curly and Larry switch to a couple bizarre looking concoctions. Especially Curly - Looks like some crazy cap/helmet combo:
As I said, equipment has changed through the years. Some day we may even see protection like this:
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Did anyone see the car roll downhill after the boys retrieve the hat for the lady?
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Yep.
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Did anyone notice the bullet holes in the back of the pants before the boys get shot up by the gangsters?
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Yes. I slowed down the short on the Curly Classics DVD and it looks like tiny explosives(firecrackers?) are attached to their pants. The explosives are also attached to strings (or very long fuses) which are also attached to the ground. As they're running away from the gun shots, the strings/fuses tighten and set off little explosions which make it appear as if they've been shot in their butts.
DangerkittyToTheRescue
Pumpkinbrain
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(1/15/05 11:52 am)
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Yes. I slowed down the short on the Curly Classics DVD and it looks like tiny explosives(firecrackers?) are attached to their pants. The explosives are also attached to strings (or very long fuses) which are also attached to the ground. As they're running away from the gun shots, the strings/fuses tighten and set off little explosions which make it appear as if they've been shot in their butts.
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Wow, thats interesting enough, I'll have to watch for that. You know, for a Grand Imbezzle, you really do have a hunk of brain there.
Now the real million dollar question is,,,,,,,how many takes did it require before Larry successfully knocked the ball over the goal post with his noggin?
I wonder if that is why he was wearing that style of helmet?
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Nitwit
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(3/15/05 8:30 am)
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Always good to see the Stooges make a mess of a sport I don't care for.
I like the guy that played Joe Stacks (I think his name is Walter Long) in Laurel and Hardy films as well as here, where I saw him first. **Note: watch the Laurel and Hardy marathon on TCM April 1 to see his great role as "The Tiger" in the film "Pardon Us", although it does conflict with SpikeTV's Stooge marathon** He has always played a great bad guy. It's too bad he didn't do more with the Stooges. His yell as he falls down the dumbwaiter shaft is hilarious, as was Moe and Larry's.
Also too bad that we didn't see more of Lucile Ball in this type of character in her career.