{"id":31320,"date":"2022-12-27T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31320"},"modified":"2022-12-27T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:41:50","slug":"beer-barrel-polecats-1946-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31320","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beer Barrel Polecats&#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\/z122722zview_beerbarrelpolecats.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Beer Barrel Polecats <\/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>Gilbert Pratt, Felix Adler, Clyde Bruckman<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Robert B. Williams, Vernon Dent, Bruce Bennett, Al Thompson <\/strong>and <strong>Blackie Whiteford<\/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) can&#8217;t find a beer anywhere.\u00a0 Their solution?\u00a0 Become bootleggers.\u00a0 Making the beer shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.\u00a0 But it is.\u00a0 Selling the beer to a cop, an even bigger one.\u00a0 Life in prison is never easy.\u00a0 Especially if you&#8217;re a Stooge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Beer Barrel Polecats <\/em>was first short filmed after Curly had suffered a stroke.\u00a0 Curly looks much thinner than usual.\u00a0 In fact he&#8217;s not much larger than Moe or Larry.\u00a0 The stroke also affected Curly&#8217;s endurance and performance.\u00a0 Because of this, director Jules White used footage from <em>In the Sweet Pie and Pie <\/em>(1941) and<em> So Long Mr. Chumps<\/em> (1941) to pad the production.\u00a0 In those scenes Curly is noticeably heavier with more expressions and body language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Beer Barrel Polecats<\/em>\u00a0<\/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\/z122722zview_beerbarrelpolecats2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer Barrel Polecats (1946) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Gilbert Pratt, Felix Adler, Clyde Bruckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly<\/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-31320","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\/31320","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=31320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31381,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions\/31381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}