“Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise” (1939) starring The Three Stooges / Z-View

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)

Director:  Jules White

Screenplay: Andrew Bennison, Mauri Grashin

Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Dorothy Comingore

Tagline: None.

The Plot…

The boys (Larry, Curly and Moe) are hobos.  After a run-in with a farmer who catches our guys stealing eggs, Curly makes a wish… and it comes true.  Then every time Curly makes a wish, something happens to make it come true.

The boys meet a farm lady with three daughters.  The lady was just swindled out of her land for the oil it contains.  Will the boys be able to make things right?  I’d bet on it!

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise is the only Stooges’ short where Moe never hits Larry!  There’s some funny business with the boys trying to work off their debt to the farmer.  The real laughs occur when Larry, Curly and Moe try to get the farm lady’s pump to work.  Although you might think that Curly got the worst of it (and he does in the film); it was Moe who really got an eye injury during that scene.

Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise earns 5 of 5 stars.