Three Little Twirps

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Three Little Twirps

Directed by	Harry Edwards
Produced by	Del Lord Hugh McCollum
Written by	Monte Collins Elwood Ullman
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Stanley Blystone Chester Conklin Bud Jamison Heinie Conklin Al Thompson Duke York
Cinematography	John Stumar
Editing by	Paul Borofsky
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 9, 1943
Running time	15' 27"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Back from the Front
Followed by	Higher Than a Kite
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Three Little Twirps is the 71st 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 poster hangers who manage to destroy one of the main posters just as their boss Herman (Stanley Blystone) comes by to check on them. The boys soon realize that their consists of tickets to the circus, but when Curly finds a huge roll of tickets, the trio start scalping them at discount price. After being caught by the circus owner (Herman as well) and the local sheriff (Bud Jamison), Herman decided to hire the Stooges as human targets for the spear-throwing "Sultan of Abudaba" (Duke York).

[edit] Notes

'Twirps' is often misspelled 'twerps.'

[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).