{"id":31311,"date":"2022-12-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31311"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:45:25","slug":"three-loan-wolves-1946-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31311","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Three Loan Wolves&#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\/z122622zview_3loanwolves.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Three Loan Wolves <\/strong><\/em>(1946)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Felix Adler<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Harold &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Brauer<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Here Today &#8211; Pawn Tomorrow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys (Larry, Curly and Moe) own a pawn shop and have a young son named Eggbert.\u00a0 Eggbert wants to know which of the Stooges is his real father.\u00a0 So the boys explain that years ago a woman left Eggbert there. She never returned.\u00a0 The story is told in flashback.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a subplot with gangsters trying to shake down our guys.\u00a0 This is the first Stooges short where Larry gets center-stage!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Three Loan Wolves\u00a0<\/em>was filmed near the end of Curly&#8217;s career.\u00a0 He&#8217;d had several small strokes and lost a lot of weight prior to filming.\u00a0 His timing was off and he didn&#8217;t have much stamina.\u00a0 By all reports his performances were becoming unpredictable.\u00a0 Director Jules White decided to make Larry the central character for this one.\u00a0 Most of Curly&#8217;s lines were then given to Larry.\u00a0 Larry does a, pardon the expression, fine job.\u00a0 It&#8217;s bittersweet knowing that the change was due to Curly&#8217;s illness.<\/p>\n<p>Harold &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Brauer is one of two people (the other being Emil Sitka) to work with all six Stooges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Three Loan Wolves <\/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\/z122622zview_3loanwolves2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Loan Wolves (1946) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard\u00a0and Harold &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Brauer<\/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-31311","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\/31311","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=31311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31312,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions\/31312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}