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Higher Than a Kite

  • 1943
  • 18m
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7.3/10
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Back from the Front (1943)
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After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.

  • Director
    • Del Lord
  • Writers
    • Elwood Ullman
    • Monte Collins
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Curly Howard
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    523
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writers
      • Elwood Ullman
      • Monte Collins
    • Stars
      • Moe Howard
      • Larry Fine
      • Curly Howard
    • 11User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    The Three Stooges Collection: Vol. 4 - 1943-1945
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    Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Movie Maniacs (1936)
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    Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Higher Than a Kite (1943)
    Moe Howard and Curly Howard in Higher Than a Kite (1943)
    Higher Than a Kite (1943)
    Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Higher Than a Kite (1943)
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    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Moe
    • (as Moe)
    Larry Fine
    Larry Fine
    • Larry
    • (as Larry)
    Curly Howard
    Curly Howard
    • Curly
    • (as Curly)
    Dick Curtis
    Dick Curtis
    • Gen. Bommel
    • (uncredited)
    Vernon Dent
    Vernon Dent
    • Marshall Boring
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Garcio
    Joe Garcio
    • Nazi Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    George Gray
    George Gray
    • Nazi Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    Johnny Kascier
    • Nazi Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    Duke York
    Duke York
    • Kelly
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writers
      • Elwood Ullman
      • Monte Collins
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      After playing checkers, Moe Howard looks at a picture of Adolf Hitler and exclaims, "Schicklgruber!". Schicklgruber was Adolf Hitler's father's birth-name.
    • Goofs
      Since they are in England with the Royal Air Force, cars would have the steering wheel on the right. The one they work on and destroy has the standard United States steering wheel on the left.
    • Quotes

      Moe: [to Curly] And what did you answer when they asked what does a navigator do?

      Curly: I told them a navigator crawls through a swamp until it becomes a suitcase, and bites like this too.

      [Gestures his hands with the snapping motion of an alligator's jaws, with growling imitation]

      Moe: No, like this.

      [Uses horizontal motion of alligator's jaws, then slaps Curly with both hands]

    • Connections
      Edited into Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

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    10/10
    My Favorite of all of The Three Stooges Short Subjects as well as the best one ever made.
    Yes that's right & for a # of various reasons including that it's the one of which I've laughed the most hysterically to of them all & I even do remember when I'd 1st seen it during May of 1972 & then the 2nd time during July of 1983 & then the 3rd time during October of 1985,the 4th during December of 1985 & the latest was over a week ago but as for the other times in between that I remember was in March of 1986.Onward to the feature itself At home Moe gets abused more than usual to make up for when he usually gets the last hit in with his head in the pipe etc. Curly really get's the biz with the navigator etc.However the Laughs really pile up upon arriving in Germany & seeing the soldiers outside of the window of the building of which they crash land in,Moe did throw a bomb out of the window & the Nazi soldiers end up after the explosion in long underwear with swastikas on their backs. Also during that "checkers" game in which upon winning Curly does say to Moe "Crown me." and then when he does with the frame of the Hitler Picture of which upon doing so the picture does end up on Curly's rear end.Larry is most hysterical of this feature & as he's ever been dressed as & talking as that woman called "Moronika" incognito.The best we see of this long time Stooge foil of whom is played by Vernon Dent is when in his role of which as the head soldier while expressing his anger about finding The 28th Division in The Red Sea from Moe & Curly's "Checkers" game is hysterical too. On the whole it's the most hysterical of all of The Three Stooges features.Now back to the Hitler Picture on Curly each time he turned around the Nazis would say "Heil Hitler" & so then Moe,Larry,and Curly then knew that they had their secret weapon for distracting them and hitting them with champagne bottles to knock them cold & upon leaving the building to board a car Curly sees a Bulldog dressed as a soldier but without noticing that it said US Marines on it and then pointed to his Hitler picture thinking that he'd show the dog who's boss only to get bit & then he yelled one of his classic quotes,"Yang,yang."then the car took off without Curly in it & then he went chasing after it with the bulldog still attached to his rear end.The Hitler rendition was to parody how Nazis were supposed to salute a picture of Hitler each time they saw it at anytime one was seen whatsoever?During the 3rd time,I saw it in October of 1985 and after it was over my Mom asked My big brother,J.Kevin "Why is he Laughing so much?and then he said to her in response to her query "It's his favorite one."Also to this day I still do laugh at just as hysterically as when I'd seen it for the 1st time in 1972. The most hysterical parts are starting from when they landed in Germany.During the 2nd time that I saw it in 1983 even my Aunt,Mary Alice was laughing just as hysterically as I was too.The third time I saw it was in 1985 as was the 4th & the 5th was in 1986.During the 3rd time that I saw it My Mother,Mary E.(Garvey)was asking "Why is he laughing so much?" Then my Older Brother,J.Kevin said "It's his favorite one." Anyhow Please do check this film yourself.

    Truthfully, Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USA
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    • Release date
      • July 30, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      18 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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