{"id":32054,"date":"2023-03-03T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32054"},"modified":"2023-03-03T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:54:16","slug":"men-in-black-1934-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32054","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Men in Black&#8221; (1934) 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\/z030323zview_meninblack34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Men in Black <\/strong><\/em>(1934)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Ray McCarey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Phyllis Crane, Charles Dorety, Billy Gilbert\u00a0<\/strong> and <strong>Bud Jamison<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A TONIC for the &#8220;BLUES&#8221;! <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys are recent graduates (because they&#8217;d been there too long) from a medical school sent to work at a hospital.\u00a0 There our guys respond to a variety of calls with the type of success\/zaniness you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Men in Black\u00a0<\/i>was the third Three Stooges short and the only one to ever be nominated for an <em>Academy Award. <\/em>(It was nominated for<em> Best Short Subject &#8211; Comedy<\/em>. If only it had won.\u00a0 Can you imagine future ads proclaiming The Stooges as Academy Award Winners?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curly forgot a line and adlibbed his famous &#8220;Woo-woo-woo&#8221; which would go on to become one of his trademark phrases.\u00a0 <em>Men in Black<\/em> also contains many bits that would often turn up in Stooges shorts &#8211; the boys going into a quick huddle; breaking a plate glass door window repeatedly as they run through\/by; pulling objects (bicycles, a horse, a go-cart) out of a closet that are obviously too big to fit, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Men in Black <\/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\/2023\/z030323zview_meninblack34b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men in Black (1934) Director:\u00a0 Ray McCarey Writer:\u00a0 Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Phyllis Crane, Charles<\/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":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054","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=32054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32212,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions\/32212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}