Production Information
Title: Three Smart Saps
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 64
Release Date: July 30, 1942
Running Time: 16:40
“Stand aside. Let a guy that can knock, nick knock, n’yuk n’yuk n’yuk!”
Short Take
Wedding plans for The Three Stooges are cut short when the father of their fiancees is wrongly jailed, and the inmates take over the prison where he was the warden. Moe comes up with a plan for them to get into jail and bust the father out. After some unsuccessful attempts to get arrested, they wind up walking through the front door of the county jail. To expose the criminal operation, The Stooges go undercover as gentlemen at the inmates’ formal party to take pictures as evidence.
Three Smart Saps Cast & Crew
| Directed by | Jules White |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Del Lord Hugh McCollum |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent Bud Jamison Sally Cairns Barbara Slater Julie Gibson Frank Coleman Julie Duncan John Tyrrell Victor Travers Eddie Laughton Lew Davis |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
Three Smart Saps Trivia
- This is the seventh of sixteen Stooge shorts with the word “three” in the title
- The film’s title is a play on the 1936 musical comedy film Three Smart Girls
Production Notes
Filming took place on April 7-10, 1942