{"id":31305,"date":"2022-12-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31305"},"modified":"2022-12-18T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:45:16","slug":"three-smart-saps-1942-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31305","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Three Smart Saps&#8221; (1942) 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\/z122522zview_3smartsaps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Three Smart Saps <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules 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, Vernon Dent<\/strong> and <strong>Bud Jamison<\/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;\">The boys (Larry, Curly and Moe) are about to be married to three sisters.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when they learn that their future father-in-law, the warden at a local jail has been locked up.\u00a0 Gangsters have turned the jail into a club for crooks to gamble, dance and booze it up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s up to Larry, Curly and Moe to break into the jail, get incriminating photos and save their father-in-law.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Three Smart Saps<\/em> is a rare Stooges short where the humor is less dependent on Moe hitting Larry and Curly.\u00a0 The laughs come (mostly) from the situations the boys put themselves in.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an extended dance scene where Curly takes center stage and really performs.\u00a0 He was light on his feet and able to move for a big man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Three Smart Saps <\/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\/z122522zview_3smartsaps2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Smart Saps (1942) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent and<\/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-31305","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\/31305","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=31305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31306,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305\/revisions\/31306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}