They Stooge to Conga
They Stooge to Conga
NR | 01 January 1943 (USA)
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The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.

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Horst in Translation ([email protected])

"They Stooge to Conga" is an American 18-minute live action short film from 1943, so this one will have its 75th anniversary next year. It is a Three Stooges short film with Curly still on board. The director is Del Lord and he worked with the gang on many occasions. The two writers, including an Oscar nominee, did not. The year already tells us that this is from the days of WWII and the Stooges made several anti-Nazi propaganda films at that point. Here we have one of them that is especially anti-German. I personally must say that I find their non-political stuff better. This one wasn't a failure by any means, but it just went too much over the top at times I guess and you must be / must have been a big American patriot to see real filmmaking class in here. As for the comedy, it is the usual chaotic slapstick approach that made them so famous and I personally am not the greatest fan of said approach. Anyway, if you like their other stuff more than I do, then maybe you will end up liking this one here too. The rating implies that actually many people had a pretty great time watching. I myself feel it was too exaggerated and lacking focus from the story-telling perspective pretty much, too much for me to recommend it. One forced joke follows the next and most aren't too funny. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

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Movie Nuttball

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team! This is one of My favorite Three Stooges shorts. Its very funny. Vernon Dent is very good in this one. The Japanese guy is hilarious! There is a similar Three Stooges short called Listen, Judge with Shemp and its just as funny! Lloyd Bridges is in this! Stanley Brown, Dudley Dickerson, and John Tyrrell are in this one. This is a very funny one!

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Brian Washington

This is one of my favorite Stooge shorts. I especially love it when Moe disguises himself as Hitler and does a flawless imitation of the "little sign painter". The boys showed that they were doing their part for moral in the dark days of World War II.

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MisterWhiplash

The Three Stooges come back in this short after a 2 year absence from the Natzi parodies. This time though, they don't play dictators, they play fixers. They are hired to fix a doorbell, but un-beknonst to them, the employees are spies. Plenty of laughs, especially the wire sequence in the house. One of the Stooges funniest. Note- look for Lloyd Bridges as a telephone man (one of his first roles). A+

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