{"id":31059,"date":"2022-12-02T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31059"},"modified":"2022-12-02T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:51:54","slug":"dutiful-but-dumb-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31059","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dutiful but Dumb&#8221; 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\/z120222zview_dutifulbutdumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dutiful but Dumb <\/strong><\/em>(1941)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Del Lord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Elwood Ullman<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett, Chester Conklin, Vernon Dent<\/strong> and <strong>Bud Jamison<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry, Curly and Moe are photographers who are sent to Vulgaria.\u00a0 Their boss knows that photography in Vulgaria is punishable by death!\u00a0 When the Stooges arrive they begin taking photographs of soldiers in a firing squad about to execute a photographer.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every scene in <em>Dutiful but Dumb<\/em> is full of gags with very few relying on Moe abusing Larry and Curly.\u00a0 Highlights include: Moe wearing a long coat while riding on Larry&#8217;s shoulders to appear as an extremely tall man, Curly popping up to get a movie star&#8217;s photo, Moe disguised as a lamp, Curly hiding in a huge radio and &#8220;voicing&#8221; all the channels, and the classic bit of Curly attempting to eat a bowl of fresh clam soup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We get to hear Curly&#8217;s real voice when he acts as an announcer while hiding in the radio.\u00a0 Curly&#8217;s scene with the clam soup required several takes because the crew was laughing so much, Curly would begin to laugh as well. The clam soup gag was so popular that Lou Costello performed it in <em>Here Come the Co-Eds<\/em> (1945),\u00a0 Moe presented it\u00a0 <em>Shivering Sherlocks<\/em> (1948), and Larry took on Lobsters in 1954&#8217;s <em>Tax Sappy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Dutiful but Dumb <\/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\/z120222zview_dutifulbutdumb2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutiful but Dumb (1941) Director:\u00a0 Del Lord Screenplay:\u00a0 Elwood Ullman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett, Chester<\/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-31059","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\/31059","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=31059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31148,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31059\/revisions\/31148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}