3 Stooges: Monkey Businessmen [VHS]
by Edward Bernds

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Movie Review: 2 1/2 stars.
Summary: 3 Stars

THREE SMART SAPS is a lot funnier than the previous. Curly's dancing scenes are the funniest part of the short.

MONKEY BUSINESSMEN- This is the first short that included co-star Kenneth MacDonald. This short is pretty funny, but Curly's sickness is too noticeable.

I give this tape 2 1/2 stars. The quality is far too bright.

Summary of 3 Stooges: Monkey Businessmen [VHS]

"Three Smart Saps" (1942, number 64) also concerns their efforts to get into prison, with obvious references to O' Henry's The Cop and the Anthem. This time they have to release their father-in-law-to-be who is the warden of a prison that the corrupt administration has made into a country club for thieves. The best part of this short is Curly's absurd dance steps, made possible by his real-life skills as a ballroom dancer. And the ancient routine of the formal-dress suit that slowly comes apart gets its umpteenth treatment in the same sequence.

"Monkey Businessmen" (1946, number 92) concerns another phony establishment, this time a sanitarium, through which they are chased by the heavies for most of the film. Another item rare in this series is the actually believable acting of the tall, attractive nurse (Jean Donahue) as she seeks for words to announce the boys' arrival at the sanitarium. The mayhem of the opening sequence in which the team tries to act as electricians is quintessential Stooging and good fun as such. --Frank Behrens

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