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Guns A Poppin - Moe testifies to Vernon Dent

Guns a Poppin!

Guns a Poppin! is a remake of the earlier Three Stooges short film Idiots Deluxe featuring Curly.  In Guns a Poppin!, Joe Besser tries to fill the role that Curly did in the earlier film, but mostly fails.  Many Three Stooges fans do not like Joe Besser as the third stooge, and this short is as good a reason why as any.  In it, Joe lacks the physicality that is at the heart of the Three Stooges slapstick, although he’s more active here than in most of his Three Stooges shorts. 

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Quiz Whizz - Joe Besser gets sick from eating a cigar

Quiz Whizz

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Quiz Whizz -One of Joe’s better short films with the Three Stooges, where he wins money in a Quiz show, loses it to swindlers, and it’s up to the Three Stooges to recover the money.

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Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960) starring Paul Winchell and the Three Stooges

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960) starring Paul Winchell and the Three Stooges

Stop! Look! and Laugh! was an attempt by ventriloquist and comedian Paul Winchell at a tribute to the Three Stooges (this was an odd ‘clip show’, featuring snippets of some of the best moments from the Three Stooges short films, with Paul Winchell and his puppets making the story that links together the various Three Stooges snippets) — although the monkeys performing Cinderella makes me wonder …

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