{"id":31184,"date":"2022-12-15T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31184"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:15:00","slug":"half-shot-shooters-1936-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31184","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Half Shot Shooters&#8221; (1936) 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\/z121522zview_halfshotshooters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Half Shot Shooters <\/strong><\/em>(1936)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:&nbsp; <strong>Jack White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Clyde Bruckman<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Stanley Blystone<\/strong> and<strong> Vernon Dent<\/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;\">As the last battle of World War I rages, Sgt. MacGillicuddy (Blystone) finds the Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) sleeping.&nbsp; When the war ends, the Sarge gives the boys a beating for being cowards.&nbsp; After the Stooges are discharged they see Sgt. MacGillicuddy on the street.&nbsp; They thank him and show the medals they received for being wounded in action!&nbsp; Moe, Larry and Curly then give the Sarge a taste of his own medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">17 years later&#8230; The boys are tricked into re-enlisting!&nbsp; Want to guess who their commanding Sargent will be?&nbsp; Yep, good ole Sgt. MacGillicuddy.&nbsp; What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Half Shot Shooters<\/em> is one of the most violent of all the Stooges shorts.&nbsp; Usually we get eye-pokes, punches, slaps and the like, but no real damage is shown.&nbsp; In this one Moe gets a broken arm, the boys are made deaf by the Sargent and it ends with the Stooges being killed!&nbsp; Of course, the violence is not graphic but at the time was considered too intense for kids.&nbsp; <em>Half Shot Shooters <\/em>was actually banned in Holland!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Half Shot Shooters<\/em> marks the first appearance of Vernon Dent.&nbsp; Dent would go one to appear in 60 Stooges&#8217; shorts!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Half Shot Shooters <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.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\/z121522zview_halfshotshooters2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"182\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half Shot Shooters (1936) Director:&nbsp; Jack White Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard,&nbsp;Stanley Blystone and 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-31184","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\/31184","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=31184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31275,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions\/31275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}