“Three Missing Links” (1938) starring The Three Stooges / Z-View
Three Missing Links (1938)
Director: Jules White
Writer: Searle Kramer
Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Ray Corrigan and Dudley Dickerson
Tagline: None
The Plot…
The boys are janitors at a movie studio when they are discovered! Curly is perfect to star in the studio’s next feature. He’ll play the missing link. Larry and Moe will get parts. They head to a jungle for location filming. There they have run-ins with a cannibal/medicine man who sells “love candy”, a lion and a gorilla. What could go wrong?
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Three Missing Links (1938) is the first Stooges short to be directed by Jules White. White would go on to produce and/or direct over 130 of the Stooges 190 shorts.
It’s a funny twist that Curly eats the “love candy” and becomes enamored with the gorilla to the point that the gorilla is frightened and runs away.
Three Missing Links (1938) rates 5 of 5 stars.
