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Director
  
Del Lord

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

They Stooge to Conga movie poster

Writer
  
Monte Collins
,
Elwood Ullman

Release date
  
January 1, 1943 (1943-01-01)

Producers
  
Jules White, Hugh McCollum

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

Cast
  
Curly Howard
(Curly),
Larry Fine
(Larry),
Moe Howard
(Moe)

Similar movies
  
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,
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,
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,
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,
Pacific Rim
,
The Artist

They Stooge to Conga is the 67th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1943 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

The Stooges are repairmen fixing the doorbell of a large house, which, unbeknownst to them, is the secret headquarters of a group of Nazi spies, headed by the ruthless Hans (Vernon Dent). They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring, and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control. The boys are caught before the remote control falls, leading to an explosion. The stooges hit the heads of the enemies and make a door bell sound in the process.

Violence

They Stooge to Conga has been consistently ranked as the most violent Stooge film of the Curly Howard era (1934-1947). DVD Talk critic Stuart Galbraith IV writes that, in its brief 15½ minutes, the film "offers several startling moments, none more gleefully sadistic as when Curly, scaling an electrical pole, within a few seconds manages to puncture the top of Moe's head, an eye, and an ear with a climbing spike, all with cringe-inducing 'ker-CHUNK' sound effects." Moe also gets pulled through lath and plaster, with a real wooden pillar unintentionally landing on his neck. Curly gets his share of abuse, via electrocution, falling off a telephone pole, severe nose twisting, and getting singed via an acetylene torch.

Interestingly, though Columbia short subject head/director Jules White was known for the usage of excessive violence in his films, They Stooge to Conga was directed by Del Lord. "We had trouble pulling Moe all the way through the wall," White later recalled. "Since Moe was a full grown man, we weakened the wall and the wood inside and then replastered the wall."

Notable violent gags

  • When the trio first enter the house, Moe and Larry try to enter the house simultaneously. They are wedged in the doorway, and get thrust out when Curly comes up from behind with the point of an anvil as a gouge.
  • When Curly is pulling a wire out of a wall he pulls out a ringing phone. He answers it and says "This line is busy" and throws it away hitting Moe in the head. Moe throws it back in retaliation, hitting Curly in the head, satisfying Moe and startling Curly.
  • When Moe is pulled through the wall by Larry and Curly, an actual 2x4 made of solid wood crashed onto Moe's neck.
  • When Moe twists Curly's nose with a tool, he uses a grinding wheel to file it back into shape.
  • As Moe and Larry assist Curly up a telephone pole, Curly accidentally impales Moe in his scalp, eye and ear with a climbing spike on the bottom of his shoe.
  • When Curly is halfway up the telephone pole, Moe burns him with a flame torch to get him all the way up.
  • After Curly drops a wrench, it lands on Moe's head, bouncing into Larry's hand. Moe uses the wrench on Larry's nose while hitting him in the throat.
  • Curly shocks himself when he tries to straighten a wire. He shocks himself again when he goes to test the connection.
  • When Curly gets zapped via several telephone pole wires, he loses his grip and falls to the sidewalk, landing on Moe and Larry below.
  • While Curly is "charged like a battery," Moe places a light bulb in Curly's ear, which lights up. To short him out, Larry places a screwdriver in Curly's opposite ear, bursting the light bulb.
  • As Curly is sliding on electrical wires, he gets a shock, which pushes him through an open window.
  • As the Nazi spies' cook (Dudley Dickerson) is talking on the phone, the phone explodes in his face due to Curly's manipulating the electrical wires. The startled cook then backs away from the phone, right into an open waffle iron. The iron closes on the cook's buttocks, leading the cook to think he is being attacked by someone.
  • When Moe takes a hammer, he hits Larry from behind, then thrusts it into Curly's mouth. Curly, in turn, bonks Moe with his own hammer 20 times in rapid succession.

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