How High Is Up? (1940)

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

Elwood Ullman (story)
Elwood Ullman (screenplay)

Release Date:

26 July 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum...

Plot Keywords:

Riveter | Parachute | Pulling A Rug Out From Under Someone | Slapstick | Grease

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bruce Bennett	...	Workman with Leaky Lunchpail (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb	...	Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Vernon Dent	...	Mr. Blake (uncredited)
Marjorie Kane	...	Pedestrian (uncredited)
Johnny Kascier	...	Street Worker (uncredited)
George Lloyd	...	Workman (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin	...	Workman (uncredited)
Charles Phillips	...	Workman (uncredited)
Cy Schindell	...	Workman with Blake (uncredited)
Victor Travers	...	Pedestrian (uncredited)
Duke York	...	Workman (uncredited)
Bert Young	...	Workman (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits
Elwood Ullman		(story)
Elwood Ullman		(screenplay)

Produced by
Del Lord	....	producer
Hugh McCollum	....	producer

Cinematography by
Allen G. Siegler

Film Editing by
Art Seid		(as Arthur Seid)

Music Department
Ben Oakland	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1940) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

17 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:

In the scene in which Curly is hit on the head with a rubber hammer when he is stuck in the sweater, if you look closely, Larry cracks up and laughs at the last BONK! on Curly's head. When Curly says, "Don't mind ME! DON'T MIND ME!!" He stares up at Moe, in which Moe starts to crack up as well and hides his face from the camera. Then the scene is cut to a close up.

Quotes:

Moe:[sarcastically] Three of the best riveters who ever riveted. Why didn't you tell them you were a groundhog?
Curly:Listen, you laugh when you say that!
Moe:HA, HA, HA.
[slaps Curly]

Movie Connections:

Edited into Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

Screamingly funny

"How High Is Up?" is another explosively funny Three Stooges short. Moe, Larry, and Curly find themselves working on the 97th floor of a not yet completed skyscraper that's currently under construction. Ineptitude and slapstick follow. Big, big, big laughs in this one.