Film star Ted Crosley, fed up with movie life, quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to ... See full summary »
Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.
If your account is linked with Facebook and you have turned on sharing, this will show up in your activity feed. If not, you can turn on sharing
here
.
Film star Ted Crosley, fed up with movie life, quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to enroll in school under an assumed name but Sam, hoping to nip his school plans in the bud, tips off the press and school. En route, Ted has met and fallen in love with Jean Worthington, daughter of Dean Worthington who is counting on Ted's enrollment to save his job. Ted, as the hero of many college and football movies, is given a royal welcome when he arrives. In an effort to make the Midland football team a bigger draw and pay off the stadium debt, Ted is put on the varsity team, where, his exploits don't match those he had on screen, and he is actually a liability. He soon incurs the enmity of Biff Gordon, the school's football hero and Ted's rival for Jean. Biff sets Ted up with a fake fraternity initiation, wherein Ted passes on the tin fraternity ring, taken from a candy box, to Jean. ... Written by
Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Jeni Le Gon with The Four Blackbirds are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. See more »
Watch it when you feel ill or just kind of "wotthehell".
Durante and the Three Stooges are in fine form. There may or may not be some kind of plot - this thing moves fast.
It's got almost as many memorable lines as Casablanca. Here's a few that have stuck in my mind for years:
DURANTE: It's an absolute catasta-strophe.
DURANTE: "When I was at Penn State..." MAN: "Oh, so you're a college boy?" DURANTE: "Sorry, I meant state pen..."
MAN: "Well this is a fine how-do-you-do!" STOOGE: "Fine! How do you do!"