3 Stooges: Hoi Polloi [VHS]

3 Stooges: Hoi Polloi [VHS]
by Del Lord

3 Stooges: Hoi Polloi [VHS]
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Actor: Arthur Rankin, Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Robert McKenzie
Director: Del Lord
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 53 minutes
Release Date: 1996-07-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Dancing and Singing
Summary: 4 Stars

This tape begins with an advertisement for other Three Stooges VHS tapes featuring the novelty song "The Curly Shuffle." However, unlike many advertisements, this one does not spoil any of the films on the tape.

All of the shorts feature Moe, Larry, and Curly.

This tape begins with Hoi Polloi from 1935. It begins with two aristocratic men arguing about whether heredity or environment is the deciding factor in a man's behavior. The two make a bet forcing the one in favor of environment to transform three ordinary men into those from high society. Of course, the stooges are chosen. This film features a great scene where the three are learning to dance, when the teacher gets a bee down her dress. They follow her "dancing" with hilarious results. Also, there is a clever bit where Curly gets a spring attached to the back of his suit, and when he falls, he bounces back into standing position. Watch closely to see that the spring keeps growing.

A Gem of a Jam is from 1943 and features the men as assistants at a doctor's office. When one of three gangsters gets shot in the shoulder, the stooges are forced to operate. As in many shorts, the boys make up new elaborate names for medical tools. This film also features a funny dancing scene when Moe gets a radio wire in his pants and Curly and Larry join in on his frantic pacing. There is a beautifully photographed shot of the stooges running away down a hallway far in the background. Overall, this is a fun short.

The last on the tape is Half-Shot Shooters from 1936. The stooges have been driving their sergeant crazy, so he really lets them have it, only resulting in their being awarded medals for sustaining injuries during the war. Since they no longer have to serve, they beat up their sergeant. Later, when the boys are down on their luck during the Great Depression, they go into a building looking for a job, but end up re-enlisting in the army under the same sergeant. He decides to get revenge. The boys sing several times in harmony for comic effect in this film; Curly even sings a line (changed slightly for the situation) of "The Music Goes Round and Round," a popular song of the time. The ending is quite funny and employs slow-motion, a technique rarely used in the series.
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"Hoi Polloi" (1935) is the 10th short made by the Three Stooges for Columbia and we still see the spelling "Curley" in the credits. It contains the hoary plot of two professors betting on whether training can improve upon heredity, one of them risking $3 million on making gentlemen of you-know-whom. Their training sessions might have been based on those in Pygmalion, while the chaos the Stooges cause at the high-class party is predictable. The ending, however, is most curious, with the high-society group taking up all the Curly mannerisms as a new fad. The slap count, according to Michael Flemming's The Three Stooges, an Illustrated History, is 48, Moe being particularly aggressive in this offering.

"A Gem of a Jam" (1943, #76) concerns a wounded crook whose accomplices mistake the Stooges for doctors. The highlights of this entry are a plaster- covered Curly looking like the silent film monster Der Golem and the racially stereotyped but truly funny fright reactions of the black comedian Dudley Dickerson, who plays a night watchman.

"Half-Shot Shooters" (1936, #14) manages some social commentary as the Stooges, recently discharged from the Army, cannot find food or a job. Having bidden a violent farewell to their commanding officer, they are tricked into re-enlisting and guess who their new C.O. turns out to be. Using a few vaudeville routines that would be repeated by Abbott & Costello in Buck Privates and several other World War II comedies, this film ends with the boys actually being killed.

The Columbia transfers are as good as you can get. --Frank Behrens

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