Boobs in Arms

To survive ours friend making everything, this turn they are selling greeting cards and ends up knock on wrong door of a sorrowful wife when appear her jealous husband, they running away through the streets and got into Army, there they meet once more the jealous husband as the Sergeant, due the Stooges's behavior let the sad Sergeant gonna crazy, until they send away to war, there on the battle they are recruited to bombing the enemies with a special one laughing gas bomb, however instead they hit their enemies the daffy Stooges hit themselves, a non-stop laughing allowed them to invade the enemy field releasing the prisoner and flying away over a flying bomb to nowhere, I did remember this fantastic episode from my childhood days on this specific scene on the bomb, simply unforgettable, impregnated in my mind forever!!

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First watch: 1973 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8

Of all the comedy teams in cinema, The Three Stooges probably introduced more firsts on the screen than any other act. They were the first to parody Germany's Fuhrer Hitler. And they were the first to show young men responding to the United States Selective Training and Service Act in December 1940's "Boobs in Arms." The Stooges find themselves escaping from a jealous husband by melting into a line of draftees reporting to duty for the 1940 Congressional Act at the local recruitment center. The three are then assigned to training camp where a series of sidesplitting scenes ensues.

The selective act was the first peacetime conscription for the United States, passed in the second year of World War Two in Europe. All qualified men ages 21 to 35 were eligible for the draft, with those inductees reporting by mid-November 1940 for one-year tours. The Stooges' production was the final short for the Stooges in the year. "Boobs in Arms" began a string of Hollywood movies dealing with the draft, including 1941's Abbott and Costello's "Buck Privates and 'In the Navy,' Bob Hope's "Caught in the Draft,' and Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante 'You're in the Army Now.' "Boobs in Arms" was also the first to film a person or persons riding a bomb seen flying through the air. Director Stanley Kubrick copied the Stooges' technique in his 1964's "Dr. Strangelove" with Slim Pickens straddling an atomic bomb as it's released from a bomber at the conclusion. The Stooges demonstrated how to ride a bomb when a shell happened to enter the shelter they're in. It gets wedged between their legs, carrying them out of the bunker.

Richard Fiske, as the jealous husband chasing the Stooges after the three were caught with his frustrated wife in her home, was a large-framed actor who appeared in over 80 films. His part as Hugh Dare has been acknowledged as his most famous role, with his repeated line, "This isn't my day!!" one of the most famous lines spoken in cinema. Fiske gets his revenge with the elusive Stooges as their drill instructor when they report to training camp. Ironically, Fiske was drafted into the United States Army in 1942 and was killed in action in La Croix-Avranchin, France in August 1944 at the age of 28.

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 a very good Three Stooges short. Richard Fiske performs really good here. Lynton Brent, Evelyn Young Wife, Johnny Kascier, Philip Van Zandt, Charles Dorety, Eddie Laughton, Cy Schindell, and John Tyrrell are also in this and all of them are good in this one! This is a funny one. The beginning of it is really hilarious! I think that this is one of the underrated Three Stooges shorts. Its really good and I recommend this one!

If you are a Three Stooges fan. Then you'll love this short. Moe, Curly, and Larry play greeting card salesmen, who join the army. And cause a lot of mayhem. When you watch this short you'll laugh so hard you won't no when to stop. It will make you laugh till it hurts.

Boobs in Arms (1940)

*** (out of 4)

Classic Three Stooges short starts off with the boys trying to sell some greeting cards when they get mixed up with a married woman who wants their help in making her husband jealous. They end up on the run and duck into a recruiting office and soon they're in the Army and sent on a mission to deliver some laughing gas to the enemy but they end up with a dose of it themselves. If you want to show someone a Stooges short to make them fans than this here would be a good pick as it has just about everything you'd want from the boys. There's plenty of violent action, plenty of good one-liners and best of all is that Moe, Larry and Curly are at the top of their game and really deliver a memorable short. There are many good moments scattered throughout the short but one of the funniest happens once they've been captured and are delivered to the enemy but they're having so much fun that they don't mind laughing and smacking around the bad guys. Another funny bit involves the married woman who gets them in trouble to start with. All the violence Stooge fans have come to love is on display here including countless pokes to the eyes and punches to the face. Just watch the sequence where the boy's Sergeant decides to do some bayonet practice with the boys being the targets.