{"id":31038,"date":"2022-11-28T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31038"},"modified":"2022-11-28T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:46:26","slug":"a-bird-in-the-head-1946-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31038","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Bird in the Head&#8221; (1946) 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\/z112822zview_birdinthehead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Bird in the Head <\/strong><\/em>(1946)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Bernds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Edward Bernds<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Robert B. Williams<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry, Curly and Moe are hired to wallpaper a room.\u00a0 They totally destroy it and when running away from the guy who hired them, escape into Professor Panzer&#8217;s lab.\u00a0 Panzer has been on the lookout for someone whose brain he can transplant into his gorilla&#8217;s head.\u00a0 Curly looks to be a perfect fit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Bird in the Head<\/em> was Edward Bernds first directing job!\u00a0 Bernds would go on to direct over 100 projects, including many Three Stooges Shorts, two Three Stooges feature films, several Bowery Boys films, television episodes and more.\u00a0 Bernds also wrote this short and made changes when it became clear that Curly, who had suffered a series of strokes, was having a difficult time.\u00a0 Bernds wrote increased &#8220;business&#8221; for Professor Panzer and his gorilla Igor.\u00a0 This kept Curly&#8217;s screen time up but with less pressure to get laughs.<\/p>\n<p>The animated sequence when Professor Panzer looks into Curly&#8217;s head was created by Tex Avery!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>A Bird in the Head <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.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\/z112822zview_birdinthehead2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bird in the Head (1946) Director:\u00a0 Edward Bernds Screenplay: Edward Bernds Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/31038","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=31038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31039,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions\/31039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}