Squareheads of the Round Table

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Squareheads of the Round Table

Directed by	Edward Bernds
Produced by	Hugh McCollum
Written by	Edward Bernds
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Christine McIntyre Vernon Dent Philip Van Zandt Jock Mahoney Harold Brauer
Cinematography	Allen G. Siegler
Editing by	Henry DeMond
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	March 4, 1948
Running time	18' 06"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Pardon My Clutch
Followed by	Fiddlers Three
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Squareheads of the Round Table is the 106th 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.

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Tidbits
4 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are troubadours in medieval times. The villainous Black prince has designs on marriage to Elaine, the princess. She however is in love with Cedric, the blacksmith. The Stooges try to intervene for Cedric by serenading Elaine. They are captured by the king’s guards and condemned to be beheaded. Elaine sends them tools baked in a loaf of bread and they escape the dungeon.

While running from the guards Moe overhears the Black Prince plotting with a coconspirator to murder the king. The Stooges save the day by causing a diversion by dancing in amour to Stephen Foster’s "Old Folks at Home," thus allowing Elaine to free Cedric. Finally, the King realizes the plot and jails The Black Prince and his fellow plotter. Elaine is allowed to marry Cedric, and they all live happily ever after.

[edit] Quotes

- The Black Prince to Elaine: “You’ll forget all about love when I marry you.”

- Moe: “We’re gonna make that Black Prince feel mighty blue.”

- The King: “My daughter marry a Smith?”
- Shemp: “Take it easy your Majesty; millions of women marry Smiths every year.”

[edit] Tidbits

Like Fiddlers Three and The Hot Scots, Squareheads of the Round Table was filmed on the existing set of the feature film The Bandit of Sherwood Forest.
Squareheads of the Round Table was reworked in 1954 as Knutzy Knights, 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).