How High Is Up
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Director Del Lord Film series Three Stooges Films Duration Language English | 8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Short Producer Hugh McCollum Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 26, 1940 (1940-07-26) Writer Elwood Ullman (story), Elwood Ullman (screenplay) Genres Short Film, Comedy, Black-and-white Cast Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Vernon Dent , Duke York Three Stooges Films movies How High Is Up? and From Nurse to Worse are part of the same movie series, How High Is Up? and Nutty but Nice are part of the same movie series, How High Is Up? and No Census - No Feeling are part of the same movie series, How High Is Up? and A Plumbing We Will Go are part of the same movie series, How High Is Up? and An Ache in Every Stake are part of the same movie series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How High is Up? is the 48th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
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 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 construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
Plot
The Stooges are menders who drum up business at a construction site by poking holes on the bottom of the workers lunch boxes, then offering to repair the holes. When their ruse is discovered, they are chased onto the site and blend in with a crowd of men seeking employment. Curly states that they are "the best riveters that ever riveted," and the hiring workman (Edmund Cobb) sends them to work on the 97th floor, despite Curlys debilitating fear of heights. In order to calm his fears, he wears a parachute.
While riveting, Larry also heats sausage for Moe and Curly. The foreman discovers Larry, who proceeds to toss Curly an actual rivet, who claims, "Its a weenie, but its kind of tough." Curly later uses a hard hat with a screwhead to engage the rivets while Moe drills them. The Stooges do a lousy job riveting and part of the building collapses when head foreman Mr. Blake (Vernon Dent) leans against a beam.
Just before he leans against the beam, he says that it looked like "good solid construction". After it collapses he demands to see the Stooges. The manager points to the section where the trio had been working. The Foreman and manager see the convoluted mess of beams that the Stooges managed to assemble and keep standing. The Forman and several men chase the stooges, who escape by parachuting off the building and landing in their wagon below.
References
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