*Spoiler/plot- Gents without Cents, 1944. The Stooge boys team up with three acrobatic dancers & singer beauties: Flo, Mary and Shirley for a lively song and dance revue at a local shipyard supporting the war effort.
*Special Stars- The Three Stooges: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard. Lindsay, Laverne, and Betty, all girl revue.
*Theme- Laughter gets the work done fast and well.
*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Columbia Pictures, film short, WW2 era. The shipyard performances was to reproduce the large celebrity driven war bond drives of the war years that produced billions of dollars lent to the US Govt by working civilians to help pay for WW2. The Stooges perform the classic stage comedy sketch, 'Niagra Falls', other famous stage artists now in films like Abbot and Costello did the same on film. Large unmistakable camera shadow lands on the rifle flag as the camera 'dollys in' to read the flag's printing. In the sequence with the black baseball bat, you can clearly see it's made of rubber and Larry reacts like hit with the bat when it never comes close to his head. Larry gives the wrong line when Larry speaks in unison with Moe in the 'Nigra Falls' sketch. Larry says wrongly 'inch by inch' instead of the right line 'step by step'.
*Emotion- A rather crazy & fun film with the high energy of The Stooges multiplied by the 3 girl stage group. The film's scenes and actors work well together and the shipyard revue was a great showcase to see their huge performance talents of both groups. An excellent 'short' once seen the viewer wishes it was a standard length feature film. Give us more!
*Special Stars- The Three Stooges: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard. Lindsay, Laverne, and Betty, all girl revue.
*Theme- Laughter gets the work done fast and well.
*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Columbia Pictures, film short, WW2 era. The shipyard performances was to reproduce the large celebrity driven war bond drives of the war years that produced billions of dollars lent to the US Govt by working civilians to help pay for WW2. The Stooges perform the classic stage comedy sketch, 'Niagra Falls', other famous stage artists now in films like Abbot and Costello did the same on film. Large unmistakable camera shadow lands on the rifle flag as the camera 'dollys in' to read the flag's printing. In the sequence with the black baseball bat, you can clearly see it's made of rubber and Larry reacts like hit with the bat when it never comes close to his head. Larry gives the wrong line when Larry speaks in unison with Moe in the 'Nigra Falls' sketch. Larry says wrongly 'inch by inch' instead of the right line 'step by step'.
*Emotion- A rather crazy & fun film with the high energy of The Stooges multiplied by the 3 girl stage group. The film's scenes and actors work well together and the shipyard revue was a great showcase to see their huge performance talents of both groups. An excellent 'short' once seen the viewer wishes it was a standard length feature film. Give us more!