Fling in the Ring

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!

This is one of My favorite Three Stooges shorts! This one is with Shemp! Dick Wessel performs good here as a gentleman and as rugged boxer. Frank Sully was good as the villain. Cy Schindell also was good. Also in this short is Claire Carleton, Heinie Conklin, Joe Palma, Sammy Stein, and Tom Kingston. There is another Three Stooges short with Shemp very similar like this one called Fright Night. I strongly recommend both!

The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are boxing trainers forced by their boss Big Mike to de-condition their star prize fighter "Chopper", because the boss has bet a load of dough on the big galoot losing the match. This was one of the latter shorts by the aging Stooges which relied on recycled old footage from a previously produced film. In this case, most of the running time is taken from 1947's FRIGHT NIGHT (which had also been Shemp's first comedy with The Stooges). However, the new scenes shot for this re-issue are very funny and for my money make this redo an even better experience than FRIGHT NIGHT! New scenes include: the boss playing practical jokes on the Stooges by having them smoke exploding cigars; Moe's fingers getting jammed in a door (Moe: "I think I broke my eye-poking fingers!" ... Larry: "Good, now you can't poke us in the eyes! > POKE <- Owwww! I hadda open my big mouth!"), and Moe nervously swallowing and choking on a cigar when Big Mike sneaks up behind him. *** out of ****

I'm guessing this remake of Fright Night (1947) was probably a "fake Shemp" short using previous Shemp footage as well as back of the head Shemp stand in following Shemp's 1955 death.

The original "Fright Night" was something close to a masterpiece, featuring the return of Shemp & a wonderful way to kick off the post Curly era. "Fling," however is pure dreck from 1955 with one day shoots, poor substitutes for the original actors like Tiny Brauer & zero laughs from the new footage.

Watch "Fright Night" and avoid this at all costs.