What's the Matador?
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| What's the Matador? | |
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Saul Ward Jack White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Suzanne Kaaren Harry Burns Dorothy Appleby Cy Schindell Eddie Laughton Don Zelaya |
| Cinematography | L. William O'Connell |
| Editing by | Jerome Thoms |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  April 23, 1942 |
| Running time | 16' 16" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Cactus Makes Perfect |
| Followed by | Matri-Phony |
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What's the Matador? is the 62nd 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 are vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their gag bull fight shtick, with Curly at the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Along the way, they cross paths with attractive senorita Dolores Sanchez (Suzanne Kaaren). They also cross paths with her jealous and hot-tempered husband José (Harry Burns). In an act of revenge for Curly flirting with Dolores, José pays the bullring attendants to release a live bull into the ring. Moe and Larry flee the ring, but Curly is unaware of the switch. He eventually head-butts the wild animal, and is paraded out of the ring to the rousing cheers of "Olé, Americano!"
[edit] Notes
- The title What's the Matador? is a pun on the question "what's the matter?" The film itself is a parody of the 1941 film Blood and Sand.[1]
- What's the Matador? would be reworked in 1959 as Sappy Bull Fighters, using minimal stock footage from the original.
[edit] References
- ^ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 209; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804
[edit] Further reading
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard, (Citadel Press, 1977). ISBN 0806507233
- The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994). ISBN 0806509465
- The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002). ISBN 0767905563
- One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry, (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006). ISBN 1581823630
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