Fiddlers Three (1948 film)

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Fiddlers Three

Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Vernon Dent Virginia Hunter Philip Van Zandt Cy Schindell Al Thompson
Cinematography	Allen G. Siegler
Editing by	Edwin H. Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	May 6, 1948
Running time	17' 06"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Squareheads of the Round Table
Followed by	The Hot Scots
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Fiddlers Three is the 107th 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 are fiddlers at the court of Old King Cole (Vernon Dent). They are forbidden by the king to marry their sweethearts until Princess Alicia (Virginia Hunter) weds Prince Valiant "when the flowers bloom in the Spring." Unfortunately, evil magician Murgittroyd (Philip Van Zandt) has his own plans to marry Alicia, and promptly abducts her. The Stooges, of course, do their best to foil his plot.

Moe, Larry, and Shemp try to put horseshoes on their horses when they fall through the floor and try to find a way out. They soon find the princess bound and gagged.

[edit] Notes

Like Squareheads of the Round Table and The Hot Scots, Fiddlers Three was filmed on the existing set of the feature film The Bandit of Sherwood Forest.
Fiddlers Three was reworked in 1954 as Musty Musketeers, using ample stock footage.

[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).