Three Missing Links
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| Three Missing Links | |
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Searle Kramer |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard James C. Morton Monte Collins Jane Hamilton Naba |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Editing by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  July 29, 1938 |
| Running time | 18' 04" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Violent Is the Word for Curly |
| Followed by | Mutts to You |
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Three Missing Links is the 33rd 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 boys are janitors at Hollywood studio Super Terrific Productions. They are cleaning the office of B. O. Botswaddle (James C. Morton), who is looking for a leading man for his next picture. After nearly destroying Botswaddle's office, Curly does his classic imitation of a "chicken with its head cut off" (Curly's trademark spinning around on the floor move). Impressed, Botswaddle sends the boys off to African to begin shooting.
While setting up camp, Curly buys some "love candy" from a cannibalistic medicine man (Naba), in hopes of impressing leading lady Mirabel Mirabel (Jane Hamilton). Problems arise when Curly (dressed as a gorilla) get entangled with a real gorilla, who scares the film crew off the set.
[edit] Notes
The title Three Missing Links refers to a transitional fossil, particularly one that is connected with human evolution.[1]
[edit] Quotes
- Curly: "I'm the Robert Taylor type."
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[edit] Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard (Citadel Press, 1977).
- The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994).
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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