Back from the Front

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Back From the Front
Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Ewart Adamson Jack White
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Stanley Blystone Vernon Dent Bud Jamison Heinie Conklin Lew Davis George Gray Jack 'Tiny' Lipson Harry Semels Al Thompson
Cinematography	John Stumar
Editing by	Edwin H. Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	May 28, 1943
Running time	17' 41"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Spook Louder
Followed by	Three Little Twirps
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Back From the Front is the 70th 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.

[edit] Plot

The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with {a secret German Nazi officer} Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are in with a nest of German sailors, they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.

[edit] Notes

Moe reprises his Adolf Hitler role from You Nazty Spy! and I'll Never Heil Again. The end was satire, with Moe telling the Nazis to use their heads and shoot out their brains, to which Stanley Blystone replies, "But mein Führer, we're Nazis. We have no brains."

[edit] Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard ISBN 0806507233, (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon ISBN 0806509465, (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg ISBN 0806509465(Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming ISBN 0767905563(Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry ISBN 1581823630, (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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