What's the Matador? (1942)

Director:

Jules White

Writers:

Saul Ward (screenplay)
Jack White (screenplay)
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Release Date:

23 April 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Tagline:

World's Champion Bull Throwers!

Plot:

The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores...

Plot Keywords:

Bull | Suitcase | Jealous Husband | Bribe | Mexico

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Suzanne Kaaren	...	Dolores Sanchez
Harry Burns	...	Jose Sanchez
Dorothy Appleby	...	O'Brien's Secretary
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eddie Laughton	...	Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
Cy Schindell	...	Bullring Attendant (uncredited)
John Tyrrell	...	Shamus O'Brien (uncredited)
Bert Young	...	Bullring Attendant (uncredited)
Don Zelaya	...	Sleeping Mexican (uncredited)

Directed by
Jules White

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Saul Ward		screenplay
Jack White		screenplay
Jack White		story

Produced by
Jules White	....	producer

Cinematography by
L. William O'Connell		(as L.W. O'Connell)

Film Editing by
Jerome Thoms

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1942) (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 (????) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Don Zelaya's instruction's roughly translated from Spanish have him telling the Stooges to go left then right and then go jump in the river.

Goofs:

Continuity: Throughout the bullfight, the bulls horns change from being white with black tips to all-black.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Don't Throw That Knife (1951)

Another Great Three Stooges Short!!!!!!

I first saw this one not as the whole short, I saw a little scene of it during a preview for Stop, Look, and Laugh, and so I really became curious about this, I really wanted to see this one and if it was funny or not, and so one day on television, this one channel was showing a Three Stooges marathon, and so this was one of the ones that they were going to show, and I was really excited about seeing this one because the little bit I saw was funny. And so my overall opinion on this short is that I believe that it is a very hysterical short! This is another short in which Curly has several of his funniest moments in it, he is really a great bullfighter, or should I say, a not so great bullfighter! This is their funniest short of 1942, and one of their funniest of the early 1940's though it is not as good as some of their others such as Boobs in Arms and A Plumbing We Will Go, but this is still a very funny one! If you are a huge fan of the Three Stooges, then this is a very great short that you must see, it is also one of Curly's best! I really love this one!

So my overall opinion on this short is that it is another great Three Stooges short that will leave you in stitches. You will split your sides when you see Curly as a matador who is not so good at fighting the bull, but tries his best at it! That is what I really love about the Three Stooges, they can get really violent at times, but I just really think that they are funny! This is also one of my favorite Three Stooges shorts, but my favorites are A Plumbing We Will Go and Punch Drunks!

10/10