Three Smart Saps (1942)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Jules White

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Release Date:

30 July 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks...

Plot Keywords:

The Three Stooges | Clothing Falls Apart | Slapstick | Conga | Number In Title

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Bud Jamison	...	Party Guest
Barbara Slater	...	Curly's Dancing Partner
John Tyrrell	...	Warden Stevens
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sally Cairns	...	Moe's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Frank Coleman	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Lew Davis	...	Gambler (uncredited)
Vernon Dent	...	Disappointed customer of tailor (uncredited)
Julie Duncan	...	Fiancee (uncredited)
Julie Gibson	...	Nella (uncredited)
Johnny Kascier	...	Doorman (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton	...	Guard at Main Door (uncredited)
Ruth Skinner	...	Fiancee (uncredited)
Frank Terry	...	Man on the Street (uncredited)
Victor Travers	...	Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

Directed by
Jules White

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Clyde Bruckman		story and screenplay

Produced by
Jules White	....	producer

Cinematography by
Benjamin H. Kline		(as Benjamin Kline)

Film Editing by
Jerome Thoms

Music Department
John Leipold	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1942) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)

Also Known As:

Father's in Jail Again (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:16 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe's Dancing Partner: Somebody lost their skirt!
[realized it's her skirt and flees into bathroom, slamming door in Moe's face]

Movie Connections:

References Three Smart Girls (1936)

Observations While Watching These 'Saps'

The Stooges are excited because in five minutes they are going to be married. Upon entering the house of the three ladies, who must all be sisters, they find the girls weeping. They have to call off the wedding because they just found out their father was framed and put in jail. He used to be the warden but the tables, unfairly, were turned. Their plan is to get arrested so they get inside the jail and rescue the ladies' father, or at least get evidence of the corruption.

This really wasn't a very funny Stooges short, but there were a few good lines and so I'll quote two from Curly and make a few other observations.

"We're not ordinary people; we're morons." "My, you are a most unusual dancer. Thank you. I come from a family of dancers. My father died dancing....on the end of a rope."

I did enjoy Moe's pronunciation of "fiancee;" the baseball-type pennants on the dance hall wall that say "Joliet," "Alcatraz," "Sing Sing" and "Leavenworth," Moe calling a guy in a tuxedo "pelican."

I never realized how short all three of these guys were until they were on the dance floor. Even all the women were taller than them!