"Sing a Song of Six Pants" is an American 17-minute live action short film from 1947, so this one had its 70th anniversary last year and if you read the names of director White and writer Adler, then maybe you will already realize that this is another Three Stooges work, also with the typical runtime. The war is over, so the trio gets unpolitical again and focuses on situation-based comedy. It's their usual approach, some violence resulting from clumsiness and Moe's hands. Larry maybe has a bit more to do than most of the time because they had to share the material more at that point already as Shemp was in and Curly out. And the crime references as well as the ending are typical Stooges stuff. If you generally like them, then so will you probably here. I myself am not the biggest fan and the 2 solid moments maybe are not enough for me to give this one a positive recommendation. Or give it a justification for this one being remade in the 50s. We shall talk about that one on another occasion. Some actors here have appeared in other Stooges films, others not really. But I liked the cast here more than I usually do, also a solid villain performance. Sadly the story simply isn't on par. And neither is the (frequently very sound-effect focused) comedy. My suggestion is you watch something else instead.

I get the title. There were three stooges and three criminals. Funny. Anyways, this was a very funny stooges episode. It was actually the first one I saw. I never thought 40s comedy can actually be funny.I love how the three stooges hurt the criminals, ended up without the reward. But then the guy they captured had money in his pocket and they took it and actually got the money they were looking for. Funny. "Ooh, a fifty. How'd that get there?" Hilarious!I recommend this Stooges ep for everyone. Although, there is one scene when one of the stooges was drinking an alcoholic beverage. That's what you get from classic movies and shows.

This is the first of the Shemp shorts that I've seen, and while some of the gags were not the cleverest I've seen from some the Stooges' earlier works, there were also some pretty good sight gags in this film. Moe comes off as a pretty mean guy at the beginning, and cooking lunch on the linen press was hardly impressive, but the ironing scene was funny, as was the fight scene at the end. Besides that, you just have to love the characteristic sound effects.A burglar runs into the Stooges linen shop, curiously named Pip Boys, followed by a police officer, who the Stooges promptly begin trying to sell new clothing to. They are not doing very well in their business, and when they discover that the burglar was in their shop and not only is there a reward available for his capture but he also left a piece of paper with a combination written on it, they frantically begin their efforts to cash in on the opportunity.It's a very simple premise devised as a ploy to allow for some of their characteristic slapstick comedy, but that's what these shorts were made for. I found that the funny parts and the parts that just seemed to fall flat just about evened each other out, and while I tend to be more impressed by earlier works like Disorder in the Court, one of my favorites, Sing a Song of Six Pants is an entertaining short film.

If a you are stooges purist and only watch the films featuring Curly, make an exception in this case. ranks with "a plumbing we will go' as quintessential stooges. Larry, Moe and Shemp are the wonderful pip boys, tailors. Includes classic scenes where breakfast (pancakes) is cooked on an ironing press and a crooks head is pressed in the same device.