Three Little Pirates (1946)

Three bumbling sailors from a garbage scow are marooned on an island where the anachronistic inhabitants seem trapped in the 17th Century.

Director:

Edward Bernds

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Stars:

Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Christine McIntyre	...	Rita
Robert Kellard	...	Guard (as Robert Stevens)
Vernon Dent	...	Governor
Dorothy DeHaven	...	Governor's Secretary

Storyline

The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island.

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Plot Keywords:

island | governor | pirate | knife throwing | disguise | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 December 1946 (USA)

Also Known As:

3 Piratas

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

18 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The last The Three Stooges short in which Curly Howard was involved in the entire production. He was left out of the final scene of the next Stooges project, Half-Wits Holiday, after he suffered a debilitating stroke.

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Goofs

The drill that the Stooges are using, while making lots of noise (sound effects) doesn't seem to have any moving parts. The drill bit doesn't move at all.

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Quotes

Moe: The raja says that in his domain on the islands of Coney & Long there are some fair chickadees who prowl through the meadows day & night.
Moe: If you give us till sunup, we shall bring some back by sundown.
Governor: Excellent, Excellent!
Governor: On your way with winged feet.
Curly: Aha, Yataminich, where are you?

User Reviews

Curly Gives His Best Performance Of His Final Years With The Stooges!

Despite the fact that near the end, Curly Howard was suffering a series of small minor strokes, I decided that I was going to see a few of his last shorts with the Stooges, this being one of them, so one day, I got down on the Internet to watch this short.

In my honest to goodness opinion, Curly gives his best performance of his final years with the Stooges! This is also Curly's best performance of his years when he was having all of those strokes, in other shorts, I could tell that Curly was very ill and sickly looking, but in here, I could hardly tell that he was ill, because he was FABULOUS! Well that proves that even when very ill, Curly was still able to pull a lot of things off! Out of all of the performances I have seen Curly give, this one is probably the funniest, as well as my favorite!

This is a note for fans of the Three Stooges, this is a very hysterical time that you are totally going to enjoy! When you watch this short, just like I was, you are going to be laughing and laughing yourself silly! And you are totally going to love Curly's performance in this short, that is totally hysterical!

So all in all, I am very found of this hysterical Three Stooges short film, and you will probably be found of it as well! So you've got to see this!

10/10