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Loco Boy Makes Good

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Director
  
Jules White

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Cinematography
  
John Stumar

Language
  
English

Loco Boy Makes Good movie poster

Writer
  
Felix Adler
,
Clyde Bruckman

Release date
  
January 8, 1942 (1942-01-08)

Genres
  
Short Film, Comedy, Slapstick, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Curly Howard
(Curly),
Dorothy Appleby
(Twitchell's Girl),
John Tyrrell
(Waldo Twitchell)

Three Stooges Films movies
  
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Loco Boy Makes Good is the 60th short subject released by Columbia Pictures in 1942 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

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Plot

Desperate to pay their rent, the Stooges get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The trio then decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch.

After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The boys put on a big show with famous critic Waldo Twitchell in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.

Controversy

In March 1946, four years after the release of Loco Boy Makes Good, silent film star Harold Lloyd filed a $500,000 suit ($7,328,921 today) against Columbia Pictures for violation of copyright. The court found the script for Lloyd's 1932 film Movie Crazy, which Clyde Bruckman had directed, virtually identical with Bruckman's script for Loco Boy Makes Good. Columbia lost the suit. Universal Pictures was later sued for similar violations in several Bruckman scripts, costing them several million dollars in damages.

Quotes

  • Curly: (storming to the dressing room) "How do ya like that?! Hittin' me with a tomato! And Major Bowes said I had talent!"
  • Balbo: (chuckles) "A tomato, 'uh?"
  • Curly: "Yeah, a cowardly tomato, one that hits you and runs!"
  • Patron: "Excuse me, waiter, do you have pâté de fois gras?"
  • Larry: (confused) "...I'll see if the band can play it."
  • Moe: "Start slipping, we start suing."

    • References

    Loco Boy Makes Good Wikipedia
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    Loco Boy Makes Good IMDb Loco Boy Makes Good themoviedb.org