{"id":32695,"date":"2023-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32695"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T20:42:39","slug":"uncivil-war-birds-1946-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32695","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Uncivil War Birds&#8221; (1946) &#8211; 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\/z050123zview_uncivilwarbirds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Uncivil War Birds <\/em><\/strong>(1946)<\/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, Theodore Lorch, Robert B. Williams<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Blackie Whiteford.<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;\">The American Civil War has started.\u00a0 The boys decide to join the fight.\u00a0 Larry and Moe come back in Union uniforms, while Curly has signed up with the Confederacy!\u00a0 Suddenly the war is raging around them and the Union Army controls the area&#8230; but just as quickly the Confederacy wins it back.\u00a0 Our guys are going crazy trying to keep up with which side has the power and to protect the boy(s) in the wrong uniform!<\/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;\">Clyde Buckman recycled his Buster Keaton script <em>Mooching Through Georgia<\/em> adapting it for the Stooges.\u00a0 Buckman would later re-work the story for <em>The Abbott &amp; Costello Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When an officer orders the soldiers with the command, &#8220;Forward march, you fools!&#8221; Curly doesn&#8217;t move.\u00a0 The officer yells, &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter with you?&#8221;\u00a0 Curly responds, &#8220;I&#8217;m no fool.&#8221;\u00a0 The commander is exasperated and yells, &#8220;Forward march, you idiot!&#8221; Curly answers, &#8220;That&#8217;s different&#8221; and begins marching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys, in an attempt to escape dress up in blackface and try to pose as minstrel singers. While blackface is not their proudest moment, it wasn&#8217;t an uncommon occurrence during that era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sadly, because of strokes, Curly&#8217;s career was coming to an end.\u00a0 More of the funny bits and dialogue are given to Moe and Larry.\u00a0 Still, Curly makes the most of what he is given.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Uncivil War Birds <\/em><\/strong>(1946) rates 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\/z050123zview_uncivilwarbirds2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncivil War Birds (1946) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Writer:\u00a0 Clyde Buckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Theodore Lorch, Robert<\/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-32695","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\/32695","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=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32696,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions\/32696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}