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How High Is Up?

  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 17m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
599
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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Three Missing Links (1938)
SlapstickComedyShort

The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When t... Read allThe stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new buil... Read allThe stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construct... Read all

  • Director
    • Del Lord
  • Writer
    • Elwood Ullman
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Curly Howard
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    599
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writer
      • Elwood Ullman
    • Stars
      • Moe Howard
      • Larry Fine
      • Curly Howard
    • 13User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Moe
    • (as Moe)
    Larry Fine
    Larry Fine
    • Larry
    • (as Larry)
    Curly Howard
    Curly Howard
    • Curly
    • (as Curly)
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    • Workman with Leaky Lunchpail
    • (uncredited)
    Edmund Cobb
    Edmund Cobb
    • Construction Foreman
    • (uncredited)
    Vernon Dent
    Vernon Dent
    • Mr. Blake
    • (uncredited)
    Marjorie Kane
    Marjorie Kane
    • Pedestrian
    • (uncredited)
    Johnny Kascier
    • Street Worker
    • (uncredited)
    George Lloyd
    George Lloyd
    • Workman
    • (uncredited)
    Sam Lufkin
    Sam Lufkin
    • Workman
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Phillips
    • Workman
    • (uncredited)
    Cy Schindell
    Cy Schindell
    • Workman with Blake
    • (uncredited)
    Victor Travis
    • Pedestrian
    • (uncredited)
    Duke York
    Duke York
    • Workman
    • (uncredited)
    Bert Young
    • Workman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writer
      • Elwood Ullman
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    8SnoopyStyle

    Curly Stooges with a bit of vertigo

    Larry, Curly, and Moe are the Minute Menders using scams to get by. They look for small jobs working out of their slap-dashed truck. They sleep under their truck at night. They get jobs as riveters on the 97th floor on a construction site.

    This one is not for people with vertigo. It's fun but it leaves me with butterflies in my stomach. It's a little exciting which is an interesting addition to a Three Stooges short. It has a bit of Harold Lloyd feel. It's good fun with some thrills.
    10Movie Nuttball

    Good Three Stooges short! Hilarious!

    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 the most hilarious Three Stooges shorts is How High is Up? In this short are Vernon Dent, Cy Schindell, and Bert Young. The acting by these actors are good especially by Dent, and Schindell. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. I recommend this one to all!
    10jhaggardjr

    Screamingly funny

    "How High Is Up?" is another explosively funny Three Stooges short. Moe, Larry, and Curly find themselves working on the 97th floor of a not yet completed skyscraper that's currently under construction. Ineptitude and slapstick follow. Big, big, big laughs in this one.
    7xyzkozak

    Fix Your Lunch-Pail For A Nickel A Hole?

    In this classic, 3 Stooges, comedy-short from 1940, Curly, Larry & Moe, of Minute Menders Inc., offer the public, from the convenience of their vehicle, cut-rate repair work while-u-wait.

    In an attempt to dodge the wrath of angry construction workers whose lunch-pails they deliberately punctured with holes (for the sake of business), our 3 crazy guys get themselves hired on by Apex Construction, claiming to be "the best riveters who ever riveted".

    Hoisted up to the 97th floor of a building still only a shell, The Three Stooges waste no time fouling things up as only they could possibly foul things up (with, the usual, guaranteed hilarious results).

    Featuring all of their trademark shenanigans (face-slaps, eye-pokes, belly-wallops, and all), How High Is Up? is yet another first-rate example of Three Stooges' slapstick-comedy at its laughable best.
    7StrictlyConfidential

    How Far Is Down?

    (*Curly quote*) - "Did you see where I landed!?"

    Without even a moments notice - The ever-adaptable Stooges make a U-Turn and immediately switch careers from being incompetent "Minute Menders" (at a nickle-a-hole) to that of being 3 of the best riveters who ever riveted a rivet.

    Now high up on the 97th floor of a skyscraper still in its early phase of construction - We find Curly frantically dealing (as best he can) with his deep-rooted acrophobia (a fear of heights). While Moe (right on cue) dishes out the face slaps, eye-pokes, and insults as only he could possibly deliver them.

    All-in-all - I'd definitely say that (without a doubt) 1940's "How High Is Up?" ranks right up there as being the Three Stooges engaging in some of their better moments of classic slapstick comedy from yesteryear. (Nyuck! Nyuck! Nyuck!)

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    • Trivia
      In the scene in which Curly is hit on the head with a rubber hammer when he is stuck in the sweater, if you look closely, Larry cracks up and laughs at the last BONK! on Curly's head. When Curly says, "Don't mind ME! DON'T MIND ME!!" He stares up at Moe, in which Moe starts to crack up as well and hides his face from the camera. Then the scene is cut to a close up.
    • Goofs
      Larry breaks character when Curly shouts the line, "Don't mind me! Don't mind me!"
    • Quotes

      Moe: [sarcastically] Three of the best riveters who ever riveted. Why didn't you tell them you were a groundhog?

      Curly: Listen, you laugh when you say that!

      Moe: HA, HA, HA.

      [slaps Curly]

    • Connections
      Edited into Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

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    • Release date
      • July 26, 1940 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 17m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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