{"id":32688,"date":"2023-04-19T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32688"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:41:20","slug":"the-yokes-on-me-1944-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32688","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Yoke&#8217;s on Me&#8221; (1944) 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\/z041923zview_yokesonme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me <\/em><\/strong>(1944)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>Clyde Buckman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Al Thompson.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When our boys are determined to be unfit for military service, they decide to aide the war effort by becoming farmers.\u00a0 They buy a run-down farm and hope to make a go of it.\u00a0 One day the sheriff warns our guys to be on guard. A group of Japanese-Americans have escaped from a &#8220;relocation center&#8221;.\u00a0 Later the escapees show up on the farm.\u00a0 Let the hijinks begin.<\/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;\">The Three Stooges shorts, like many films of the era, sometimes featured things that modern audiences find distasteful.\u00a0 And rightly so.\u00a0 <em>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me<\/em> (1944) is often considered to be the worst offender.\u00a0 For many years <em>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me<\/em> was never shown on television rebroadcasts.\u00a0 The antagonists aren&#8217;t Japanese soldiers, spies or criminals.\u00a0 They are American citizens who were rounded up and put in prison camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With that said, there are still some funny bits in <em>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s unfortunate that they are over-shadowed by the choice of &#8220;bad guys&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me (1944) <\/em><\/strong>(1944) <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">rates 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\/z041923zview_yokesonme2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yoke&#8217;s on Me (1944) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Writer:\u00a0 Clyde Buckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard\u00a0and Al Thompson.<\/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":[72,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","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\/32688","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=32688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32689,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32688\/revisions\/32689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}