Three Loan Wolves (1946)

Director:

Jules White

Writer:

Felix Adler (story)

Release Date:

4 July 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Tagline:

Here Today - Pawn Tomorrow

Plot:

Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop...

Plot Keywords:

Baby Carriage | Red Hot Coal | Winking | Smashing Guitar | Tear On Cheek

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Beverly Warren	...	Molly the Glamour Girl
Tiny Brauer	...	Butch McGee (as Harold Brauer)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jackie Jackson	...	Eggbert--tough little boy (uncredited)
Joe Palma	...	Second Henchman (uncredited)
Wally Rose	...	First Henchman (uncredited)

Directed by
Jules White

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Felix Adler		story & screenplay

Produced by
Jules White	....	producer

Cinematography by
George F. Kelley		(as George Kelley)

Film Editing by
Edwin H. Bryant		(as Edwin Bryant)

Art Direction by
Charles Clague

Music Department
John Leipold	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Other crew
Danny Craig	....	stand-in: Curly (uncredited)
David Levitt	....	stand-in: "Moe" (uncredited)
Eli Schmudkler	....	stand-in: "Larry" (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1946) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe:Get that kid a bottle with a nipple on it and milk in it. That's an order.
Curly:Aye aye.
Moe:Aye Aye?
Curly:Aye Aye
[Moe pokes Curly in the eyes]
Curly:Aiee! Aiee!

One of the weaker Three Stooges short with Curly

As most shorts with Curly when he was sick, this was pretty weak. The plot deals with the Stooges telling their adopted son a flashback story of who his real mother is, and how they found him. Not only was the plot weak (the "baby" theme was never one of the Stooges' stronger recurring themes). What's really strange about this is that Larry and Curly's roles appear to have been switched. Larry is the star of the short and gets most of the attention and lines, and Curly hardly has any lines and is pushed into the background. This was strange - it's usually the other way around. I'm guessing Larry and Curly's roles were switched because Curly wasn't up to following the original script. While Larry has some funny lines here, I don't think that he can really carry a short by himself. He's a lot funnier as the middleman, and he's had better shorts where he's shined (FUELIN' AROUND for example), and a lack of Curly in this short is too noticeable. Not a great short.