“Ants in the Pantry” (1936) starring The Three Stooges / Z-View

Ants in the Pantry (1936)

Director:  Preston Black

Screenplay:  Al Giebler

Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Charles Dorety, and Bud Jamison

Tagline: Three assorted nuts…driving you bugs with laughter!

The Plot…

The boys are going to lose their jobs as pest exterminators if they don’t get some business soon!  So they sneak into a mansion and distribute ants, assorted bugs and mice.  Then they get hired by the mansion’s owner to exterminate the pests.  What could go wrong?

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…

Clarence Nash, who voiced Donald Duck for Disney, provided the sounds needed for cats in the piano.

In a scene where ants were supposed to be crawling all over Moe, actual ants were!  The bottle of the critters broke in his pocket and Moe didn’t realize until too late.  Everyone on set was cracking up thinking Moe was really into acting it out.

Ants in the Pantry earns 4 of 5 stars.