Violent is the Word for Curly

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Violent Is the Word for Curly
Directed by	Charley Chase
Produced by	Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum
Written by	Al Giebler Elwood Ullman
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jameson Dick Curtis Marjorie Deanne Pat Gleason
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Editing by	Art Seid
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 2, 1938
Running time	17 minutes, 37 seconds
Language	English
Preceded by	Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb (1938)
Followed by	Three Missing Links (1938)
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A short film made by The Three Stooges and released on July 2, 1938.

1 Plot
2 Bloopers
3 Trivia
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Plot

The short begins with an All Girl College, Mildew College, with some of the administrators begging the school's largest benefactor, Mrs. Catsby to provide an athletic fund for the school. She does not approve of girls playing sports, and informs the administrators that the money will be used for the salaries of the three new European professors that are arriving that day.

Meanwhile, The Three Stooges have just started a new job as servicemen at a service station. The motto is "Super Service." When they get a customer with three older German men, they proceed to provide their brand of "super service", angering the customers. The mayhem ends when Curly accidentally puts gasoline in the radiator and Moe checks it with a match. The resulting explosion prompts the Stooges to flee in a nearby Ice Cream truck that they had coincidentally thrown the German mens' suitcases into. Curly climbs in the back while Moe and Larry are in the front.

The Stooges finally stop when they run out of gas. Moe and Larry realize that Curly is still in the back of the truck and is now frozen solid. They thaw him out by tying him to a tree branch over an open fire. This works fine until Curly wakes up on fire and jumps into a nearby lake. When Moe and Larry try to help him out, he pulls them in with him. Now wet, the boys decide to see if there are any dry clothes in the suitcases they had thrown into the truck.

It turns out that the men in the car were the three European professors. As the Stooges hitch hike, the car that passes by is driven by Mrs. Catsby. She mistakes them for the professors and invites them back to Mildew College.

During the introductions of the "new professors", Larry (as "Professor Feinstein") asks the class if they have any questions; one of the girls responds: "Is it true that time and space and calculated by the direct ratio of interplanetary magnetism to the solar radiation?" The Stooges' response is to teach the class by performing a rendition of Swinging the Alphabet.

During the buffet lunch, the three professors show up, blowing the Stooges' cover and vowing to return to "Hamburg on the Clipper!"

Curly: I never heard of such a thing!

Moe: You never heard of what?

Curly: He's gonna get a hamburger with a zipper!

When Mrs. Catsby angrily confronts the Stooges, they tell her that the college needs athletics, not the foreign professors. They offer to demonstrate and the class follows. Meanwhile, the professors mix an explosive into a basketall.

The boys demonstrate basketball (in the form of football) and force Mrs. Catsby to join in. After being tackled "on her own five yard line" she agrees to provide an athletic fund if the boys would get the professors back. As the boys are about to agree, Curly throws an errant basket, going over the fence and exploding in front of the professors, who are blown back into the Stooges clutches. The boys vow to clean them up and give a little "super service".

[edit] Bloopers

During the Alphabet song, when there is a closeup of the girls singing, many have trouble lip synching the words. The most noticeable is during the letter 'h'. Look at the girl at the bottom left of the screen during that letter.