{"id":32730,"date":"2023-05-03T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32730"},"modified":"2023-05-03T06:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:39:39","slug":"fright-night-1947-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32730","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fright Night&#8221; (1947) 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\/z050323zview_frightnight47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fright Night <\/em><\/strong>(1947)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Bernds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>Clyde Bruckman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Dick Wessel, Claire Carleton, Stanley Blystone, Heinie Conklin, Sammy Stein<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Evelyn Venable.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>The Stooges are punchier than ever in a knockout of screwy joy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our guys are managers of heavyweight boxer, Chopper Kane.\u00a0 When gangsters tell our boys that Chopper loses his next fight or they lose their lives, they know what they have to do.\u00a0 Chopper has to take a dive, but Chopper refuses.\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;\"><em>Fright Night <\/em>is Shemp Howard&#8217;s first Three Stooges&#8217; short.\u00a0 He agreed to play a Stooge until Curly regained his health.\u00a0 Sadly Curly never did.\u00a0 <em>Fright Night\u00a0<\/em>is Shemp&#8217;s favorite Three Stooges short.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a very funny extended scene when our boys are running from gangsters in a crowded warehouse.\u00a0 The scene was later copied on <em>The Abbott and Costello Show<\/em> in the episode <em>Public Enemie<\/em>s.\u00a0 Clyde Bruckman wrote that episode as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Fright Night <\/em><\/strong>(1947) 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\/z050323zview_frightnight47b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fright Night (1947) Director:\u00a0 Edward Bernds Writer:\u00a0 Clyde Bruckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Dick Wessel, Claire Carleton,<\/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":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/32730","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=32730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32766,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32730\/revisions\/32766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}