{"id":32949,"date":"2023-05-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32949"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:05:48","slug":"cuckoo-on-a-choo-choo-1952-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32949","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cuckoo on a Choo Choo&#8221; (1952) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z052623zview_cuckoochoochoo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gents in a Jam &lt;\/em&gt;(1952)&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p style=\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cuckoo on a Choo Choo<\/strong><\/em> (1952)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard\u00a0 <\/strong>and <strong>Victoria Horne.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Your Favorite Funsters in Their Happiest Huddle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car.\u00a0 Shemp is rich, but also a drunk and in love with a giant, imaginary bird.\u00a0 Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, Lenore, but her family&#8217;s tradition is that the oldest sibling must be married first.\u00a0 So Larry and his girl are trying to convince Shemp to marry Roberta, the older sister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Moe, a private detective for the railroad shows up.\u00a0 He&#8217;s finally tracked down the stolen railroad car!\u00a0 He&#8217;s about to arrest Larry and Shemp when he spots, Roberta, his old girlfriend that he never got over.\u00a0 And if you think this all sounds crazy, it gets really nuts&#8230;<\/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>Cuckoo on a Choo Choo\u00a0<\/em>is another of Larry FIne&#8217;s favorite Stooges&#8217; shorts.\u00a0 It could be because he gets to play a tougher character than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This short is also one of the few that has the boys not working together as brothers or a team (which defeats the concept of The Three Stooges).<\/p>\n<p>Lenore (talking about Shemp): &#8220;He&#8217;s filthy with money.&#8221;\u00a0 Larry: &#8220;He&#8217;s filthy without it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Cuckoo on a Choo Choo<\/strong><\/em> (1952) 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\/z052623zview_cuckoochoochoo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuckoo on a Choo Choo (1952) Director: Jules White Writer: Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard\u00a0 and<\/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-32949","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\/32949","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=32949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32958,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949\/revisions\/32958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}