I'm a Monkey's Uncle

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I'm a Monkey's Uncle

Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Zion Myers
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Dee Green Virginia Hunter Nancy Saunders Joe Palma Cy Schindell Heine Conklin
Cinematography	George F. Kelley
Editing by	Edwin Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 7, 1948
Running time	15' 56"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Heavenly Daze
Followed by	Mummy's Dummies
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle is the 110th 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 cavemen living in the stone age. They must tend to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk, hunting fish, and gathering eggs. Such is life in the prehistoric times.

That afternoon, Moe has a date with his girlfriend, Aggie (Virginia Hunter). Shemp and Larry want to join, as Aggie has two sisters for the boys, Maggie (Nancy Saunders) and Baggie (Dee Green). When rival cavemen allege that the Stooges stole their women, a fight breaks out, with the trio catapulting rocks, mud and eggs at the cavemen.

[edit] Notes

I'm a Monkey's Uncle was reworked in 1955 as Stone Age Romeos, 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).