Production Information
Title: Sing a Song of Six Pants
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 102
Release Date: October 30, 1947
Running Time: 16:54
“Do you dye?” “No, that’s his natural expression.”
Short Take
The Stooges run a tailor shop that is about to be repossessed by the Skin and Flint Finance Corporation. When The Boys hear about a big reward for fugitive bank robber Terry “Slippery Fingered” Hargan (Harold Brauer), they think that catching him might end their financial woes. Hargan conveniently ducks into their shop as the officer (Vernon Dent) enters and leaves a suit with a safe combination in its pocket. After his girlfriend (Virginia Hunter) fails to retrieve the combination, Hargan returns with his henchmen, and a wild melee follows. The Stooges miss out on the reward but wind up with the crook’s bankroll to pay off their debts.
Sing a Song of Six Pants Cast & Crew
| Directed by | Jules White |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Felix Adler |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Vernon Dent Harold Brauer Phil Arnold Virginia Hunter Cy Schindell |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant |
Sing a Song of Six Pants Trivia
- It is one of four Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s (the other three being Malice in the Palace, Brideless Groom, and Disorder in the Court)
- The title is a takeoff on “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” the classic English nursery rhyme
Production Notes
- The short was remade in 1953 as Rip, Sew and Stitch, using ample recycled footage from the original
- The working title was Where the Vest Begins