{"id":31524,"date":"2023-01-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31524"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:36:44","slug":"playing-the-ponies-1937-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31524","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Playing the Ponies&#8221; (1937) 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\/2023\/z011323zview_playingponies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Playing the Ponies <\/strong><\/em>(1937)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Charles Lamont<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman, Charlie Melson<\/strong> from a story by<strong> Irv Frisch, Will Harr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Charles Dorety, William Irving<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Sam Lufkin<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>THEY&#8217;RE OFF&#8230;THEIR NUTS! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys think they&#8217;re taking advantage of a couple of chumps when they trade their diner for a racehorse named Thunderbolt.\u00a0 Sadly, Thunderbolt isn&#8217;t the winner they were hoping for.\u00a0 When Curly accidentally feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, the horse runs like the wind!\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Curly working in the kitchen is my favorite part of this one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Playing the Ponies <\/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\/2023\/z011323zview_playingponies2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the Ponies (1937) Director:\u00a0 Charles Lamont Screenplay:\u00a0 Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman, Charlie Melson from a story by Irv Frisch,<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31524","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=31524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31525,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31524\/revisions\/31525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}