Dizzy Pilots
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Richard Fiske Harry Semels Al Thompson |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Editing by | Charles Hochberg |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  September 24, 1943 |
| Running time | 16' 45" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | I Can Hardly Wait |
| Followed by | Phony Express |
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Dizzy Pilots is the 74th 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
Moe, Larry, and Curly are the Wrong brothers (a parody of the Wright brothers), a group aviators who must invent a revolutionary airplane for the military in order to avoid the draft. They have just 30 days to prove that their new plane "The Buzzard" can revolutionize flying. In the process of preparing "The Buzzard", Moe twice gets knocked into a tub of rubber cement. The first time it happens, Larry and Curly try to get the rubber off Moe by expanding the rubber with helium. Unfortunately for the trio, Moe floats to the top of the airplane hangar and into the sky, and Larry and Curly take aim with a shotgun and blast him to safety.
Later, just as the boys are ready to test "The Buzzard", they realize the plane is too wide to move out of the hangar. This problem is solved when the Stooges saw a larger opening in the airplanes hangar. The trio encounter two additional setbacks: their test flight fails, and they are drafted into the army, where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant (Richard Fiske).
[edit] Notes
- The army segment was lifted from the earlier Stooge short Boobs in Arms.
- The gag of a plane too large to get out of a hanger was repeated in 1972 when the Stooges were the featured stars in an episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies entitled "The Ghost of the Red Baron."
[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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