{"id":33038,"date":"2023-06-09T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33038"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:04:40","slug":"hot-stuff-1956-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33038","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hot Stuff&#8221; (1956) 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\/z060923zview_hotstuff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"548\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hot Stuff <\/em>(1956)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Felix Adler, Elwood Ullman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Philip Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Jock Mahoney, Gene Roth <\/strong>and <strong>Emil Sitka.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our boys are government agents assigned to protect a scientist developing a super rocket fuel.&nbsp; When foreign spies mistake Larry for the scientist, they kidnap him, Moe and Shemp.&nbsp; If Larry cannot come up with the formula for the super rocket fuel, it&#8217;s curtains for our guys.<\/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;\"><strong><em>Hot Stuff <\/em><\/strong>(1956) is a reworking of the Stooges&#8217; 1949 short Fuelin&#8217; Around.&nbsp; It makes use of quite a bit of footage from the original.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hot Stuff&nbsp;<\/em>is also the first short to use Joe Palma as a stand-in for Shemp since he had recently died.&nbsp; Palma would usually have his back to the camera or as in the scene shown below would be wearing a fake beard or or something to obscure his face.&nbsp; This gave rise to the term &#8220;Fake Shemp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Hot Stuff <\/em>(1956)<\/strong> 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\/z060923zview_hotstuff2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\"><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/54QBwnAUqC4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Stuff (1956) Director: Jules White Writer: Felix Adler, Elwood Ullman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre,<\/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-33038","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\/33038","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=33038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33040,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33038\/revisions\/33040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}