Stop!, Look and Laugh

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Stop!, Look and Laugh was a full-length motion picture that was released in 1960. In all, there were clips of ten Three Stooges shorts, that included Calling All Curs, How High Is Up? and Micro-Phonies, which featured all of the original Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard.

The shorts were often in-between the antics of Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the Marquis Chimps performed a fairy tale, as part of Jerry Mahoney's bedtime story.

The film, was without controversy as it was the center of a lawsuit. Columbia Pictures Corporation, which would eventually distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts behind their backs. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4, 1960, and to provide the funding for the Three Stooges' then-newly-formed production company, Normandy Productions.