Dizzy Pilots (1943)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Jules White

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Release Date:

24 September 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft...

Plot Keywords:

The Three Stooges | Reference To The Wright Brothers | Slapstick

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly Wrong (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry Wrong (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe Wrong (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Richard Fiske	...	The Sergeant (archive footage)
Charles Dorety	...	(uncredited)
Judy Malcolm	...	Girl in Hangar (uncredited)
Harry Semels	...	Sky Aircraft Co. Representative (uncredited)
Al Thompson	...	Sky Aircraft Co. Representative (uncredited)
Sethma Williams	...	Girl in Hangar (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
Charles Hochberg

Art Direction by
Victor Greene

Other crew
John Stumar	....	archive footage (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1943) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV) (syndication)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS) (laserdisc)

Also Known As:

Pest Pilots (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

This short makes extensive use of footage from the earlier short Boobs in Arms (1940).

Goofs:

Continuity: After Moe falls in the well, the film dissolves to the three men back at work on the airplane, and Moe is wearing the same jumpsuit as at the beginning of the short. But earlier, he had it covered in rubber cement, inflated with gas, and he left it floating mid-air when he was blasted out of it, so how could he get back into the same jumpsuit?

Quotes:

Larry: [to Curly] What're ya doin' with that rifle? Don't you know any better than to use a rifle? You might miss him!
[Grabs a shotgun]
Larry: Here, use a shotgun!

Movie Connections:

References The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Good Three Stooges short!

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. Harry Semels and Al Thompson are in this one. Richard Fiske is also in the short but his scenes are from archive footage from another Three Stooges short called Boobs in Arms. This is a very good Three Stooges short with many funny parts and I recommend it!