{"id":31593,"date":"2023-01-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31593"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:03:17","slug":"violent-is-the-word-for-curly-1938-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31593","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Violent is the Word for Curly&#8221; (1938) 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\/z012323zview_violentwordcurly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Violent is the Word for Curly <\/strong><\/em>(1938)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Charley Chase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Bud Jamison<\/strong> and <strong>Al Thompson<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>THEY&#8217;RE CRACKED IN THE CRANIUM&#8230;ON A CUCKOO CAMPUS!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys are new hires at a service station.\u00a0 They screw things up so badly that they take off down the road.\u00a0 They end up at an women&#8217;s college where they are mistaken for three college professors due to arrive that day.\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;\">The opening set piece has the boys working at a service station.\u00a0 There&#8217;s an extended sequence where the boys are shining up a car and Curly begins vigorously polishing a bald man&#8217;s head.\u00a0 The slapping sound effect cracks me up every time.<\/p>\n<p>The Three Stooges singing <em>&#8220;Swinging the Alphabet&#8221;<\/em> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When <em>Violent is the Word for Curly<\/em> was colorized it became obvious that in the scene where the college girls are playing basketball some are braless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Violent is the Word for Curly <\/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\/2023\/z012323zview_violentwordcurly2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent is the Word for Curly (1938) Director:\u00a0 Charley Chase Screenplay: Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman Stars: Curly Howard, Larry Fine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31593","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\/31593","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=31593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31623,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions\/31623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}