Stop, Look and Laugh
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| Stop! Look! and Laugh! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Don Appell Louis Brandt |
| Produced by | Sid Kuller Harry A. Romm Martha Vera Romm |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Paul Winchell Jerry Mahoney Knucklehead Smiff The Marquis Chimps Joe Bolton |
| Cinematography | Glen Gano |
| Editing by | Jerome Thoms |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  February 8, 1961 |
| Running time | 77' 50" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Have Rocket, Will Travel |
| Followed by | Snow White and the Three Stooges |
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Stop! Look! and Laugh! was a feature-length Three Stooges compilation featuring all of the supposed original Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard (Shemp Howard was the original third Stooge.)
Eleven of the Stooges shorts were shown and bridged together with segments featuring Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the Marquis Chimps performed a fairy tale, as part of Jerry Mahoney's bedtime story.
The film, oddly enough, provoked controversy due to a lawsuit filed by the Three Stooges, who claimed producer Harry A. Romm who had produced their previous film Have Rocket, Will Travel created the film without their knowledge or permission. Columbia Pictures, which would eventually distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts behind their backs. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4, 1960, and to provide the funding for the Three Stooges' then-newly-formed production company, Normandy Productions. [1]
[edit] Featured shorts
The following eleven Stooge shorts were featured in Stop! Look! and Laugh!:
- Calling All Curs (1939)
- How High Is Up? (1940)
- Micro-Phonies (1945)
- Higher Than a Kite (1943)
- Half-Wits Holiday (1947)
- Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
- Violent is the Word for Curly (1938)
- Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)
- What's the Matador? (1942)
- Goofs and Saddles (1937)
- A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). The Three Stooges Scrapbook, p. 91, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465
- ^ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 527; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804
[edit] Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [2](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [3], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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