{"id":31005,"date":"2022-11-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31005"},"modified":"2022-11-23T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:34:08","slug":"three-pests-in-a-mess-1945-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31005","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Three Pests in a Mess&#8221; (1945) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z112322zview_3pestsmess.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Three Pests in a Mess <\/strong><\/em>(1945)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Del Lord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Del Lord<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent<\/strong> and <strong>&#8216;Snub&#8217; Pollard<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Three screwballs on the loose!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry, Curly and Moe are inventors who become enamoured with a gold digger who thinks the boys are loaded. When she finds out they&#8217;re not, she calls in her partners to rough up the boys.\u00a0 While making their escape Curly accidently shoots a mannequin.\u00a0 Thinking that Curly has killed a man, the boys put the &#8220;body&#8221; in a bag and take it to a cemetery to bury it.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Three Pests in a Mess <\/em>is another Stooges classic.\u00a0 Curly&#8217;s interactions with the gold digger and his shirt &#8220;preparedness&#8221; are priceless.\u00a0 The cemetery scenes at night with Larry, Curly, Moe and the folks from the masquerade party (A devil, skeleton, and mad magician) are classic.\u00a0 Curly shines when carrying the bag containing the mannequin and with each step he takes gets slapped in the head by the mannequin&#8217;s hand.\u00a0 <em>Three Pests in a Mess<\/em> is another great example of how comedy and &#8220;horror&#8221; work so well together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Three Pests in a Mess<\/em> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z112322zview_3pestsmess2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Pests in a Mess (1945) Director:\u00a0 Del Lord Screenplay: Del Lord Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31081,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions\/31081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}