Stop! Look! and Laugh
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Film series Three Stooges Films Duration Country United States | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Producer Sid Kuller Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Don Appell
Louis Brandt
Jules White Writer Saul Ward , Sid Kuller Release date July 1, 1960 (1960-07-01) Directors Jules White, Louis Brandt, Don Appell Cast Moe Howard (Moe), Larry Fine (Larry), Curly Howard (Curly), Paul Winchell (Paul Winchell - Ventriloquist)Similar movies Fuelin' Around , Three Little Pirates , If A Body Meets A Body , Booby Dupes , Rumpus In The Harem , Three Little Beers Tagline More fun than a barrel of Monkeys! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stop! Look! and Laugh! is a 1960 feature-length Three Stooges compilation featuring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard. Eleven of the Stooges shorts were shown and bridged together with segments featuring Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the Marquis Chimps perform a version of Cinderella narrated in rhyme by Winchell with June Foray providing female voices (and Alan Reed providing the male ones) as part of Knucklehead's bedtime story. New York Stooges TV host Officer Joe Bolton (a staple of WPIX-TV through the early 1970s) has a cameo as a customer in a cafe.
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Plot
Paul Winchell plays a father to Jerry Mahoney who is avoiding going to school at all costs where he is failing his subjects. Mahoney's tricks range from painting the window black to sleep in, continually falling asleep, and pretending to be sick by painting spots on his face and heating a thermometer with a match to give him a temperature reading of 264F to stay home. Winchell relates stories that segue into scenes from Three Stooges short subjects with the film concluding with a loud party that is footage from Half-Wits Holiday. As Winchell enters the home to complain of the noise, he is hit with one of the pies in that sequence's pie fight.
Production
The film provoked controversy due to a lawsuit filed by the Three Stooges, who claimed producer Harry A. Romm who had produced their previous film Have Rocket, Will Travel created the film without their knowledge or permission. Columbia Pictures, which would eventually distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts without the team's consent. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4, 1960, and to provide the funding for the Three Stooges' then-newly formed production company, Normandy Production.
Featured shorts
The following eleven Stooge shorts were featured in Stop! Look! and Laugh!:
References
Stop! Look! and Laugh WikipediaStop! Look! and Laugh IMDb Stop! Look! and Laugh themoviedb.org