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Time Life Just Released The Best of Three Stooges on DVD
For over 50 years, The Three Stooges presented a brand of pie-throwing, eye-poking and head-bonking routines that cracked up multiple generations. They were the masters of mirth, merriment and mayhem that turned slapstick comedy into an art form. With a body of work including over 220 films, television, stage shows, cartoons and more – they are forever ingrained in our culture.
Now the greatest comedy team of all time is here to poke, smack, slap and bonk their way onto your screens in this exclusive collection of their work!
The Best of The Three Stooges includes over 45 hours of content:
- All 87 of the Columbia Pictures Shorts produced between 1934 and 1945
- 28 Comedy Shorts featuring the independent work of Shemp, Joe, & Curly Joe
- Four Three Stooges Feature Films
- Vintage Animated Cartoons
- FREE Memory Book
- 2 FREE DVDs featuring the “Hey Moe! Hey Dad!” 9-Part Documentary Series, including never-before-seen footage,
- Home movies and
- Rare photos
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Production Information
Studio: Columbia
Production Number: 11
Release Date: November 28, 1935
Running Time: 16.5
Short Take
When the Stooges learn their Brewery is having a golf tournament, they sneak off to a nearby course to get in some practice. Features famous Brewery “Panther Brewing Co.”
Cast & Crew
The Three Litte Beers story was by Felix Adler and directed by Raymond McCarey who would also direct The Boys next short, Three Little Pigskins again collaborating with writer Felix Adler. As we mentioned, Phyllis Crane (Hoi Polloi) was also in Three Little Pigskins with another up-and-coming actress you may recognize by the name of Lucille Ball.
Trivia
- Who says ‘how we gonna shoot golfs without guns’ in Three Little Beers? (A: Curly)
- In Three Little Beers Moe says ‘Grab a bag of bats, killer’ to whom? (A: Larry)
- He wore the V-neck sweater in Three Little Beers. (A: Larry)
Routines
- Press, Press, Pull
The Stooges enter a private place saying that they’re from the press. Each walk by the front desk with a little button saying “Press.” Curly, with his usual brainy self, says, “Pull.” Curly’s button usually has some part of it still attached, as it was ripped off of something in the men’s room
- Several things hidden in shirt
Curly has several things hidden inside his shirt. When Moe bops him on the head, however, all the things in his shirt fall out
Production Notes
- The outdoor golf scenes were filmed at Rancho Park Golf Course located at 10460 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Still a functional municipal golf course
- The famous ‘barrel chase’ scene was filmed at Scott Avenue and Echo Park Avenue in Los Angeles
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Production Information
Title: Punch Drunks
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 2
Release Date: July 13, 1934
Running Time: 17:29
“Every time I hear that Weasel tune, something POPS inside of me!”
Short Take
In Punch Drunks, Moe is a struggling boxing manager having lunch with several associates who are angry at him for their low payment and threatening to quit on him. He notices that their shy waiter (Curly) goes into a violent fugue whenever he hears the song “Pop Goes the Weasel,” which is the case when he knocks out three associates and later his boss. Moe also takes notice of a fiddler (Larry) who happens to be playing the potent tune at the restaurant and quickly recruits the two unsuspecting cohorts and preps them for the boxing world. With Larry playing “Pop Goes the Weasel” at every boxing match, Curly becomes the number-one contender for the heavyweight championship.
All goes well until the night of the highly anticipated World Championship match with Killer Kilduff (Al Hill). Only a few moments into the first round, Kilduff plants a left hook at Curly, sending him into the crowd, landing on Larry and crushing his violin. Frantic, Larry scurries the streets, looking for anything that is playing “Pop Goes the Weasel,” while Curly is being battered by the boxer.
Larry manages to come across a politician’s campaign truck blaring the tune from its speakers and “race-drives” it to the arena, crashing through a side wall. Curly is just about ready to throw in the towel until he hears “Pop Goes the Weasel.” The wobbly boxer comes to his feet with renewed energy, and knocks out Kilduff in a matter of seconds, winning the fight. The song continues, however, and as they celebrate in the ring, Curly knocks out Larry and Moe and begins to advance on the camera as the short ends.
Punch Drunks Cast & Crew
| Directed by | Lou Breslow |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Moe Howard Larry Fine Jerry Howard Jack Cluett |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Chuck Callahan William Irving Jack “Tiny” Lipson Dorothy Granger Al Hill Billy Bletcher Arthur Housman Larry McCrath George Gray A.R. Heysel Dorothy Vernon |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Edited by | Robert Carlisle |
Punch Drunks Trivia
- The script for Punch Drunks was written by The Stooges, credited as “Jerry Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard”
- The only short written entirely by The Three Stooges
- In 2002, Punch Drunks was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” the only Stooge film to achieve such an honor
- Larry, who actually plays the violin, plays a violinist in Punch Drunks
Production Notes
- Filming was completed May 2–5, 1934
- Punch Drunks was remade with Shemp Howard in 1945 as A Hit With a Miss
- A colorized version of this film was released in 2004 as part of the DVD collection Goofs on the Loose
