“No Dough Boys” (1944) starring The Three Stooges / Z-View
No Dough Boys (1944)
Director: Jules White
Writer: Felix Adler
Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent and Christine McIntyre
Tagline: You’ll Go Slap-Happy When the Stooges Go Jap-Happy!
The Plot…
The boys are dressed as Japanese soldiers for a photo shoot. Unfortunately for our guys there are reports that three Japanese soldiers on the loose in the city. While on a lunch break, Larry, Curly and Moe are mistaken for the real thing. As they run for their lives, our guys end up ducking into an apartment that is a secret Nazi hideout. The spy who runs things, Hugo (Dent) believes that our boys are the escaped Japanese soldiers… until he doesn’t.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Curly starts to light a cigarette when Moe points to a sign and asks Curly what it says. Curly responds, “Hey, you! No Smoking!” Moe: “Well?” Curly: “It says you, not me. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.”
Curly later performs the invisible pipe gag (made famous by Laurel & Hardy in two films: Way Out West and Blockheads).
No Dough Boys (1944) rates 3 of 5 stars.
