Space Ship Sappy
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| Space Ship Sappy | |
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Jack White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe Besser Benny Rubin Doreen Woodbury Emil Sitka Lorraine Crawford Harriette Tarler Marilyn Hanold |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Editing by | Saul A. Goodkind |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  June 13, 1957 |
| Running time | 16' 15" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | A Merry Mix Up |
| Followed by | Guns a Poppin! |
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Space Ship Sappy is the 178th 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.
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[edit] Plot
The Stooges meet up with slightly eccentric Professor A.K. Rimple (Benny Rubin) and his daughter (Doreen Woodbury) who ask the trio to help them with a space mission. The mission lands the group on the planet Sunev (Venus spelled backwards), where the Stooges are taken with three attractive female aliens. At first, sparks fly (literally) when the girls kiss the boys. But then the ladies turn cannibalistic, and are about the suck the Stooges' blood. The boys jump back in the rocket ship (knocking the Professor and his daughter out cold), and work their way back to Earth.
[edit] Notes
- 49-year-old Joe Besser suffered a mild heart attack shortly after filming Space Ship Sappy. Production of the Stooge shorts was put on hold for several weeks while Besser recovered.[1]
- Singer Elvis Presley is name-checked by Larry Fine in the film.
- Space Ship Sappy features Moe and Larry's more "gentlemanly" haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. These had to be used sparingly, however, as most of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 491; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). The Three Stooges Scrapbook, p. 264, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465
[edit] Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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