Saturday, February 11, 2006

Half-Wits Holiday - 1947


Director: Jules White

Cast:
Curly Howard ... Curly
Larry Fine ... Larry
Moe Howard ... Moe
Vernon Dent ... Prof. Quackenbush (Environment)
Barbara Slater ... Miss Lulu Quackenbush
Theodore Lorch ... Prof. Sedletz (Heredity) (as Ted Lorch)
Symona Boniface ... Mrs. Smythe-Smythe (uncredited)
Helen Dickson ... Party guest (uncredited)
Johnny Kascier ... Party guest (uncredited)
Emil Sitka ... Sapington (the butler) (uncredited)
Al Thompson ... Party guest (uncredited)
Victor Travers ... Party guest (uncredited)

For film buffs, you would probably know this was Curly's last official short (though he did appear in a brief cameo in a short called hold that lion). True, it is still funny, but it is still sad to see Curly like this (while shooting the short, he had a stroke and most of his shots were filmed by a double). Not only because a great trio was split up, but because Shemp came in afterward. No offense to Shemp (really), but Shemp did for the Three stooges what Gus Van Sant did to Psycho. Still, all that aside, this is a funny short, and it is nice to see them. One last time. A

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