Three Little Sew and Sews

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 an unusual Three Stooges short. Harry Semels, Phyllis Barry, James C. Morton, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Dick Curtis, Lew Davis, Ned Glass, and Cy Schindell are in this one. The Stooges are good in this one and so is the other cast members. This is a very different Three Stooges short and I think most Three Stooges fans will like it. Watch it today!

The boys are sailors working in a tailor shop on the base. At the last minutes, they are told to clean an Admiral's uniform. Curly finds a pass in the pocket and impersonates Admiral Taylor. The boys escape from the brig and steal uniforms to go to a party. Two spies assume that Curly is Taylor and try to entice him in espionage on a submarine.

The Stooges are rarely sticklers for reason and logic. This one takes the cake. One minute, they're at a party and the next, they're in a submarine. All too often, Stooges shorts are split in two but this one is a rather jarring jump. If they want a submarine Stooges short, just do a submarine Stooges short. Do the whole thing on the submarine. I would love to see the guys try to be imaginative doing all the slapstick on that one set. I still love the guys but this is lesser Stooges despite Curly being front and center.

Could be the first pre WWII comedy short, dealing with international spies. These stories were always bananas because the Stooges gave the goons a run for their money.

It all starts out with Moe, Larry and Curly working in a ship's tailor shop and just happen to get a hold of an admiral's uniform. Curly puts it on -- and all of a sudden he's a distinguished military officer(?), with Moe and Larry as his important aides. I agree with the last reviewer, from this moment on, the Stooges get into a ton of trouble that never stops, just the way all us big kids love it.

The guys wind up at a party, bumping into the spies who eventually trick them into stealing a submarine! Crazy crackers stuff, directed fast and furious by Del Lord. He was at his best with this type of episodic material. Also a Stooge first -- Curly, using his authority as an admiral(?), throws Moe and Larry into the brig! It's fun to see tough guy Moe not in charge for a few seconds.

Veteran actor Harry Semels is appropriately cast as the count, also British actress Phyllis Barry plays Olga. Keep an eye on these two slippery characters. Vernon Dent this time around plays a party guest and Bud Jamison back in form as a stone face cop. An early role for comedian Ned Glass, playing a sailor. Cowboy star Lane Chandler plays a shore patrolman.

Imaginative writing by Ewart Adamson, who wrote tons of short films.

See this one for Admiral Curly and laugh out loud. Always on Columbia dvd, generally by decades, 30s, 40s and 50s episodes. Big thanks to METV for running these super oldies Saturdays.

Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The Stooges join the Navy to see the world and meet women but they end up being nothing more than tailors. Curly puts on an Admiral's outfit and goes to a party where he and the boys get kidnapped by spies and forced to steal a submarine. This is pretty average stuff for the Stooges but we still get several gags that work well. I think the second half of the film is where the majority of the laughs are as the stuff inside the sub is pretty funny. The shots of the sub are incredibly fake looking but this helps the laughs as the thing is constantly jumping in and out of the water like you'd expect a fish to do. We also get a funny chase sequence inside the sub as the guys chase the spies in a small circle only to end with the violence we like. The first portion of the movie isn't too bad, although we get many familiar jokes including the boys trying to iron but burning holes through the clothes. The scene with Curly wearing the uniform and torturing Moe and Larry in jail was pretty funny as well.

The naval uniforms look like USN-issue. You would think the Televanian navy would follow the same customs. The admiral, lieutenant, enlisted man, the Stooges and the radio man all wesr their covers (hats) indoors. Faux pas.