Rl.
March 6 / Prod. No. 4071 / 17
m / p Hugh McCollum / d
Edward Bernds /
st scr Clyde Bruckman / ph
Phillip Tannura / e
Paul Borofsky / a Charles
Clague / C: Harold Brauer (Big Mike), Dick Wessel (Chopper
Kane), Cy Schindell (Moose), Claire Carleton (Kitty Davis), Sammy Stein
(Gorilla's Trainer), Tommy Kingston (Chuck), Dave Harper (1st Cop) and
Stanley Blystone (2nd Cop)
SYN:
Larry, Moe, and Shemp are Chopper
Kane's managers. They receive word from "Big Mike", a two-bit
gangsters, that their boxer better taste the mat or else! The boys
concoct a plan to get Chopper in the worst shape ever by overfeeding
him junk food and bringing his new girlfriend Kitty around the gym.
They figure that since he's so "ga-ga" over Kitty, he won't
train and he'll be like putty in their hands when the day of the fight
comes around. The plans appears to be working swell until the night
of the fight when Chopper learns that Kitty has dumped him for the
challenger Gorilla Watson. The boys are in trouble again until shortly
afterward Gorilla Watson gets angered and accidentally punches a brick
wall breaking his hand. The Stooges assume this is a blessing in disguise...with
a broken hand, Gorilla Watson won't be able to fight and they'll have
to cancel the match. WRONG! In walks Big Mike and his
boys who take the boys for a ride "A one-way ride" to a
warehouse where he has big plans for a fight of his own.
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that this was Shemp's
personal favorite short, as well as his first short back with the
team as "The Three Stooges". He was with the team originally
before Curly in the days of Ted Healy.
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The first draft screenplay for Fright
Night was completed by Clyde Bruckman on May 24, 1946, featuring
Curly, even though he had suffered his stroke 18 days earlier.
FN:
The
short was later remade as Fling in the Ring (1/6/55). The gag
of acting as a puppeteer for an unconcious victim was also staged in
Matri-Phony (7/2/42) and Fling in the Ring (1/6/55).
