Three Dark Horses (1952)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Jules White

Writer:

Felix Adler (writer)

Release Date:

16 October 1952 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate...

Plot Keywords:

Destiny | Spit Take | The Three Stooges | Slapstick | Number In Title

Cast

Shemp Howard	...	Shemp
Larry Fine	...	Larry
Moe Howard	...	Moe
Kenneth MacDonald	...	William 'Bill' Wick
Ben Welden	...	Jim Digger

Also Known As:

Small Delegates at Large (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Funny can be done with no budget.

Irony. Sometimes the funniest things are done with minimal resources as in this short. No great staging or special effects, five people in the whole cast including the Stooges themselves, and yet it's not too bad at all. Seems though like it could have been part of something bigger. The sequencing of the first scene on to the second is perfect and so you wish for more but, "That's all there is, there isn't any more." (Quote from L&H'S Sons of the Desert 1933) And that's a pity. Columbia had literally gold in their hands and just would always let it slip through their money grubbing fingers. Irony again. Big shots like Harry Cohn and Louis B. Mayer had all the great comedy talent at their disposal yet in all truth neither guy reportedly had a decent sense of humor. This short is not just some more pokes and gouges by the boys but an actual satire of politics at the time...or any time really, from ancient Rome to now with Clinton, Gore, and Bush. "Hmm! Three guys. That's a coincidence!" Names like Hammond Egger and Able Lamb Stewer, it's too much. Watch this one by all means and laugh at the body politic.