How High Is Up?
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| Directed by | Del Lord |
| Produced by | Del Lord Hugh McCollum |
| Written by | Elwood Ullman |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent Cy Schindell Duke York Bert Young Bruce Bennett Edmund Cobb |
| Cinematography | Allen G. Siegler |
| Editing by | Art Seid |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  July 26, 1940 |
| Running time | 16' 26" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Nutty But Nice |
| Followed by | From Nurse to Worse |
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How High is Up? is the 48th 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, who are working as menders, are asleep under their wagon when a broken hydrant washes them down the street, mattress and all, and into the path of a truck. Rudely awoken by a beat cop, they set about drumming up business. Curly attempts to fix a flat tire (using a slice of salami from Moe's sandwich as a patch), and Moe and Larry struggle to get Curly out of his too-tight sweater.
They later arrive at a construction site and poke holes on the bottom of the workers' lunch boxes, offering to fix the holes for money. When their ruse is discovered, they are chased onto the actual site and blend in with a crowd of people looking for work. Curly states that they are "the best riveters that ever riveted," and the hiring workman (Duke York) sends them to work on the 97th floor, despite Curly's debilitating fear of heights.
They do a lousy job and part of the building collapses when head foreman Mr. Blake (Vernon Dent) leans against a beam. He and several men chases the stooges, who escape by parachuting off the building and landing in their wagon below.
[edit] Quotes
This film contains a memorable set of lines repeated in other Stooges films.
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- Moe: "Get the tools"
- Larry: "What tools?"
- Moe: "The tools we've been using for the past ten years!"
- Larry: "Oh, those tools".
- Moe: "Get the tools"
[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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