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#4 - THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)

Postby Lunkhead on June 12th, 2005, 1:49 am

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THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS is the second short with a sports-based theme. This time, the boys invade the world of the gridiron with hilarious results. The stooges are mistaken as The Three Horsemen, star football players of Boulder Dam College. Joe Stacks is a crooked team owner who persuades them to play football for him. With lots of money riding on an upcoming game, he's certain The Horsemen will help him win. The build up to the big game takes a while, but there are plenty of laughs along the way. The boys have funny moments pan handling and having fun with the gangster molls, one of whom is played by a young Lucille Ball. Also, the stooges appear in drag (nightgowns) for the first time. When the game begins, it’s a great payoff (except to Stacks). Moe tries to educate his pals on how to play, but the result is one mishap after another. Watch for what looks like a zany, unintentional flea-flicker – it’s great. This is surely one of the funniest football exhibitions ever filmed and I enjoy this short a lot.

“Why the dirty double-crossers! They throw this game on purpose!!” ~ Joe Stacks

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Curly displays nice foot-work as a running back.
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#4 - THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)

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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.

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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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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?

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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:
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But during the game, Curly and Larry switch to a couple bizarre looking concoctions. Especially Curly - Looks like some crazy cap/helmet combo:
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As I said, equipment has changed through the years. Some day we may even see protection like this:
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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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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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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.
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three little pigskins

Postby jamison on June 15th, 2005, 8:16 pm

One other thing about PIGSKINS is that Robert Young's younger brother Joseph appears as one of the henchmen. What's even odder is that the younger Young later changed his name to Roger Moore (!) and appeared in dozens of films under that moniker. Needless to say he never became the film/TV star his brother was, under any name.
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Re: Robert Young's younger brother

Postby Lunkhead on June 15th, 2005, 8:49 pm

Pretty interesting. I never knew that. Thanks Jamison.
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Postby jamiemark on July 17th, 2005, 9:13 am

Is this the short that features a young Lucille Ball?
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yesh

Postby Xenorama on July 17th, 2005, 12:13 pm

yes, yes it is.

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Postby Umday on July 17th, 2005, 12:33 pm

Yea and she's a bara-cutie too. :curly1:
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Postby Wilytank on September 8th, 2006, 4:36 pm

The only good part was the part with the inside the mansion.
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THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)

Postby Xenorama on February 25th, 2008, 5:01 pm

watching this one again had me laughing out loud start to finish. i need a dime for a burger and bicarbonate of soda!

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