Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)

Director:

Charley Chase

Writers:

Al Giebler (story)
Elwood Ullman (story)

Release Date:

2 July 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Tagline:

THEY'RE CRACKED IN THE CRANIUM...ON A CUCKOO CAMPUS!

Plot:

Three bumbling gas station attendants are mistaken for college professors arriving from Germany to teach at a prestigious women's college.

Plot Keywords:

College | Women's College | Gas Station | College Professor | Nitroglycerin

US TV Schedule:

Mon. June 4

9:00 AM

AMC

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dick Curtis	...	Professor (uncredited)
Marjorie Deanne	...	Miss Katsby (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston	...	College Official (uncredited)
Gladys Gale	...	Mrs. Katsby (uncredited)
Pat Gleason	...	Benson (uncredited)
Bud Jamison	...	Acme Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Al Thompson	...	Professor (uncredited)

Directed by
Charley Chase

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Al Giebler		story & screenplay
Elwood Ullman		story & screenplay

Produced by
Charley Chase	....	associate producer
Hugh McCollum	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Lucien Ballard

Film Editing by
Art Seid		(as Arthur Seid)

Sound Department
Edward Bernds	....	sound (uncredited)

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

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1938) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems Television (1958) (USA) (TV) (syndication)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1999) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar (2000) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

18 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The title of this movie short is a takeoff of a 1936 movie called Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: After the lunchman says "Luncheon is served", the a shadow of the boom mic is moving about at the top left corner of the screen.

Quotes:

Miss Katsby:Oh, you'll just love it. Mildew has a lovely student body.
Curly:Yours wouldn't be so bad either if you took off about twenty pounds!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "King of the Hill: A Fire-fighting We Will Go (#3.10)" (1999)

Extreme Super Service!!!!

This is another of my all time favorite Three Stooges shorts, because it is absolutely hysterical!!!!

The gas station scene is very funny where they are giving the professors "Super Service!" The man driving the car told them to just put in ten gallons of gas, and they did more than that, they blew up the car!

Here is a warning, if you were at a gas station to get your car serviced, and three guys who looked like Moe, Larry, and Curly came up and said that they would give you "Super Service", don't do it!

The Three Stooges then got into the professors outfits and were taken to the college, where they performed the infamous "Swinging the Alphabet."

But when they were revealed not to be the real professors, the real ones decided to give them some explosive stuff in a ball. But then Curly threw it over and it exploded and blasted the professors back into the school, and the Three Stooges decided to clean them up, with "Super Service!"

Hysterical!!!

10/10