They Stooge to Conga (1943)

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

Monte Collins (story)
Elwood Ullman (story)

Release Date:

1 January 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Submarine | The Three Stooges | Lifting Person In Air | Radio

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lloyd Bridges	...	Telephone Customer (uncredited)
Stanley Brown	...	(uncredited)
Vernon Dent	...	Hans, the Nazi (uncredited)
Dudley Dickerson	...	Wilbur the Cook (uncredited)
John Tyrrell	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Monte Collins		story and screenplay (as Monty Collins)
Elwood Ullman		story and screenplay

Produced by
Del Lord	....	producer
Hugh McCollum	....	producer
Jules White	....	producer (uncredited)

Cinematography by
George Meehan

Film Editing by
Paul Borofsky

Art Direction by
Carl Anderson

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

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)

Runtime:

18 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate #8392)

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

For years the "climbing spike" scene was deleted from this short. It was deemed too graphic even for a Stooges short.

Quotes:

Curly: Hello Ma? Hello Pa? It was a glorious battle!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)

The Stooges at their funniest...and most violent!!!

In this short (another the Stooges did that makes blatant fan of Hitler), the Stooges are fix-it men who are assigned to repair the wiring at a mansion which is actually the hideout of a group of Nazis. The Stooges are their usual inept selves particularly when they try to find the trouble by sending Curly to scale a telephone pole resulting in some of the most violent scenes ever filmed by the Stooges (Moe and Larry apply a pipe wrench to Curly's nose and press his nose against a revolving grindstone; Curly accidentally stabs Moe in the scalp, ear, and (gulp!) eye (shudder!); Moe burns Curly's rear with a blow torch; Curly is electrocuted by the wires to the point where they can light up a light bulb by sticking it in his ear). Eventually, though, their ineptness leads to victory on their behalf when they destroy the house, foul up the Nazi's directions over their air radio, and generally render the Nazis incapable. Very funny stuff, if you can stomach the over-the-top violence in this one (the spike in the eye bit repulses almost everyone who watches it). RECOMMENDED