{"id":31103,"date":"2022-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31103"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:29:43","slug":"if-a-body-meets-a-body-1945-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31103","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If a Body Meets a Body&#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\/z120922zview_ifabody.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If a Body Meets a Body <\/strong><\/em>(1945)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jack White<\/strong> from a story by <strong>Gilbert Pratt<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Theodore Lorch, Fred Kelsey<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Al Thompson<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Curly is named as a benefactor, the boys show up at the late uncle&#8217;s spooky old mansion for a reading of the will.\u00a0 Instead of a will reading, all of the guests are kept in isolation as Detective Clancy (Kelsey) attempts to determine who murdered Curly&#8217;s uncle!\u00a0 While the boys are kept in a bedroom strange things begin to happen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This same plot was used in <em>The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case.<\/em> Fred Kelsey played the investigating cop in both!\u00a0 This is the first short filmed after Curly suffered a stroke.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why Larry and Moe get more individual gags than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>If a Body Meets a Body <\/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\/z120922zview_ifabody2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a Body Meets a Body (1945) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Jack White from a story by Gilbert Pratt Stars:<\/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":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/31103","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=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31210,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions\/31210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}