Rip, Sew and Stitch

No pun intended - the Stooges are back and they try to make some money with their business. I do wonder if they made a short movie for every business there was back in the day. They surely did more than enough of those shorts that this could be true. I still stand by my thought and wish, that there one day will be a thorough examination of the history of the Stooges ... there is more than enough stuff to build upon and also quite interesting to say the least.

But back to this and some crazy jokes with clothing. Of course you have to suspend your disbelief (be it with the mannequin joke, the ape jokes, the constantly hitting of someone jokes and so forth) ...

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

One of My favorite Stooges shorts with Shemp is none other than Rip, Sew and Stitch! All appearing in this short are the great Vernon Dent, the excellent Tiny Brauer, Phil Arnold, the hilarious Cy Schindell, and Jules White There are so many funny parts here. Dent, Brauer, and Schindell are great here! This is a very hilarious short. There is another similar Three Stooges short like this one called Sing a Song of Six Pants and I recommend both!

The Stooges are the Pip Boys with a tailor shop. Their equipment is in danger of being repossessed in 24 hours. Terry 'Slipperyfinger' Hargan is on a bank robbing spree and there is a large reward for his capture. Hargan slips into the shop to hide from the cops and escapes without his clothes. Moe finds a safe combination in his pants. The guys decide to capture him when he returns. It's not so easy.

The guys get to do their slapstick on themselves and then do it to the bad guys. The guys are still doing lots of stunt work despite being in their 50's. The last few minutes has some good action. It's always great to see the boys do their own action even if it's the bad guys getting hit.

RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953) is such a close remake of SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947), which was a classic, that it was almost not worth making. This is only the third mid-50's remake. The remakes improved as they got going. They got started with the better remakes when they make MUSTY MUSKETEERS (1954). This is okay, but they've made better remakes.

Grade: B

When it comes to the "recycled dogs" I don't like much, this short is one of the first that always pops up in my mind. There is just so much stock footage that I wonder if Jules White had a premium on how much new footage he could shoot in order to call these stinkers new & sell it to the theaters. Apparently, this should have been called "Stooges on the cheap."

I'm sure Bill Brauer was still alive and well & could have come back as Hargen, instead of that painfully obvious stunt double that sneaks out of the tailor shop. Jules was too cheap to even bring back Phil Arnold, as I'm pretty sure that is Jules himself shouting "Thanks, so long," off camera. Just a totally uninspired Stooge film...