A Snitch in Time

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A Snitch in Time
Directed by	Edward Bernds
Produced by	Hugh McCollum
Written by	Elwood Ullman
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Jean Willes Henry Kulky John L. Cason John Merton
Editing by	Henry DeMond
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	December 7, 1950
Running time	16' 28"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Slaphappy Sleuths
Followed by	Three Arabian Nuts
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A Snitch in Time is the 128th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Ed Bernds and violence 3 Quotes 4 Notes 5 References 6 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The trio own a furniture shop ("Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe: Antiques Made While U Waite") who are staining some furniture they have delivered to Miss Scudder (Jean Willes), an attractive curly-haired brunette who owns a boarding house. While attending to their duties (and nearly destroying the furniture in the process), several new boarders at Miss Scudder's place are actually a trio of crooks who have just robbed a jewellery store. The Stooges are held at gunpoint while Miss Scudder is tied up and gagged in her kitchen while the crooks ransack the house to steal several valuable heirlooms in her possession. The Stooges and Miss Scudder work together and unravel the crooks' plot.

[edit] Ed Bernds and violence

A Snitch In Time is a particularly violent film for the Stooges. The topper remains 1943's They Stooge to Conga, but A Snitch In Time runs a close second. Interestingly, this film was directed by Edward Bernds, who always maintained that the Stooges did not have to be violent for the sake of being violent. Columbia short subject head and director Jules White, on the other hand, was notorious for the excessive abuse in his shorts.

[edit] Quotes

• • Larry: "Hey Moe? I finished the drawer."
  • Moe: "Well, whaddaya want me to do, kiss ya?"
  • Larry (with a boyish smile): "Well..." *SLAP*

[edit] Notes

• The title of this film parodies the aphorism "a stitch in time saves nine." ^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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