The Sitter Downers (1937)

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

Ewart Adamson (story)
Ewart Adamson (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 November 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages...

Plot Keywords:

Building A House | Begins With Text | Wet Cement | Falling On Someone | Bouquet

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charles Dorety	...	Man on Street (uncredited)
June Gittelson	...	Flora Bell (uncredited)
Marcia Healy	...	Dora Bell (uncredited)
Jack Hill	...	Man on Street (uncredited)
Jack Long	...	Truck Driver (uncredited)
Betty Mack	...	Cora Bell (uncredited)
Robert McKenzie	...	Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
James C. Morton	...	Mr. Bell (uncredited)
Charles Phillips	...	Man on Street (uncredited)
Bert Young	...	Truck Driver (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits
Ewart Adamson		(story)
Ewart Adamson		(screenplay)

Produced by
Jules White	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
George Meehan

Film Editing by
Charles Nelson

Music Department
Louis Silvers	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1937) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Screen Gems Television

Runtime:

16 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Marcia Healy, who plays Dora Bell, Curly's wife, was the real life sister of Ted Healy, who created The Three Stooges.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Curley gets knocked out, with his feet in the wet cement, there are concrete rocks and fragments on the ground behind him. When he awakens with his feet in the hardened cement, and starts chopping his feet out of the cement, the rocks and fragments are gone.

Quotes:

Larry:[pulling the girls names out of a hat to decide who will marry who] I got Florabell.
Florabell:Honey
[hugs Larry with spine crunching sound effect]
Florabell:Darling.
Moe:I got Corabell.
Corabell:Oh Darling.
Curly:[pulls out the hat tag] I get Stetson, which one is she?

Movie Connections:

References Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

worth watching

This isn't there best short but its funny. The stooges get married and go on a honeymoon but first they have to build a house. The funniest part was when Moe was chasing Larry around and Curly was smoothing cement and Moe and Larry kept running through it.