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Elwood Ullman (story)
Release Date:
21 March 1941 (USA)
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Plot:
The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment...
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Brilliant! Another of the trio's greatest!
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete) | Curly Howard | ... | Cluck (as Curly) |
 | Larry Fine | ... | Clack (as Larry) |
 | Moe Howard | ... | Click (as Moe) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Eddie Acuff | ... | Headquarters Guard - Right of Door (uncredited) |
| Fred Aldrich | ... | Firing Squad Member (uncredited) |
 | Bruce Bennett | ... | Soldier in General's Office (uncredited) |
| Stanley Brown | ... | Percival De Puyster (uncredited) |
| Edmund Cobb | ... | Wilson's Assistant (uncredited) |
| Chester Conklin | ... | Waiter (uncredited) |
| Marjorie Deanne | ... | Mrs. De Puyster (uncredited) |
| Vernon Dent | ... | Wilson (uncredited) |
| Kit Guard | ... | Headquarters Guard - Left of Door (uncredited) |
| Bud Jamison | ... | Army Sergeant (uncredited) |
| Fred Kelsey | ... | Colonel (uncredited) |
| Eddie Laughton | ... | Ray Machine Operator (uncredited) |
| James C. Morton | ... | (uncredited) |
| Harry Semels | ... | Villager (uncredited) |
| Blanca Vischer | ... | Wilson's secretary (uncredited) |
| Bert Young | ... | (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Del Lord | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Elwood Ullman | (story and screenplay) | |
Produced by | |||
| Del Lord | .... | producer | |
| Hugh McCollum | .... | producer | |
| Jules White | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Benjamin H. Kline | (as Benjamin Kline) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Art Seid | (as Arthur Seid) | ||
Music Department | |||
| Howard Jackson | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| Ben Oakland | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Columbia Pictures (1941) (USA) (theatrical)
- Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- Image Entertainment (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
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17 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Curly Howard briefly speaks in his normal voice as the bogus police radio announcer.See more »
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Moe Click:[surprised to see all the watches on his arm] Hey, what's the idea of the 3 watches?
Curly Cluck:That's the way I tell the time.
Moe Click:*How* do you tell the time?
Curly Cluck:This one runs 10 minutes slow every 2 hours. This one's 20 minutes fast every 4 hours. The one in the middle's broken, it stopped at 2 o'clock.
Moe Click:Well how do you tell the time?
Curly Cluck:I take the 10 minutes on this one, and subtract it from the 20 minutes on this one, haha, then I divide by 2 in the middle.
Moe Click:Well, what time is it now?
Curly Cluck:[takes a stopwatch from his pocket] Oh uh, 10 minutes to 4...
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Curly Cluck:That's the way I tell the time.
Moe Click:*How* do you tell the time?
Curly Cluck:This one runs 10 minutes slow every 2 hours. This one's 20 minutes fast every 4 hours. The one in the middle's broken, it stopped at 2 o'clock.
Moe Click:Well how do you tell the time?
Curly Cluck:I take the 10 minutes on this one, and subtract it from the 20 minutes on this one, haha, then I divide by 2 in the middle.
Moe Click:Well, what time is it now?
Curly Cluck:[takes a stopwatch from his pocket] Oh uh, 10 minutes to 4...
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Spoofed in Shivering Sherlocks (1948)See more »
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Marvelous! This is another of the best Three Stooges shorts! I was really enjoying this when I first saw this! In fact, this is one of my favorites!
My favorite scene was where Curly was playing the music in the radio! When I saw that scene, I thought that I was going to die! I was laughing so hard, I was crying and no sound came out!
I also really loved the restaurant scene where Curly was having a hard time with an oyster in his soup! Poor Curly, he really has some hard times in several shorts that he was in!
This is on Stooge short that all of you fans of Moe, Larry, and Curly really must see! You will be laughing yourself to death when you see this very hysterical short!
Great!
10/10