{"id":34637,"date":"2023-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34637"},"modified":"2023-12-02T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:52:13","slug":"flagpole-jitters-1956-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34637","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flagpole Jitters&#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\/z120323zview_flagpolejitters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Flagpole Jitters <\/em>(1956)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Felix Adler, Jack White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, David Bond, Vernon Dent, Richard Alexander, Ned Glass <\/strong>and <strong>Frank Sully.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>The Three Stooges hit a new high in low-down laughs<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys are working as janitors to raise money for their invalid neighbor, Mary.\u00a0 Their goal is to get enough dough that Mary can have an operation to allow her to walk again.\u00a0 A criminal known as The Great Svengarlic hypnotizes Larry, Shemp and Moe to dance on a flagpole high above the street.\u00a0 While the crowd watches Svengarlic&#8217;s act, his accomplices rob a jewelry store.<\/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>Flagpole Jitters <\/em><\/strong>(1956) is a reworking of the Stooges&#8217; 1949 short <em>Hokus Pokus<\/em>.\u00a0 It makes use of quite a bit of footage from the original.\u00a0 In the original Mary was faking her disability, in this one she&#8217;s not.\u00a0 Changing this aspect of the short weakens the ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Flagpole Jitters<\/strong><\/em> is the last Stooges&#8217; short that features new footage of Shemp.\u00a0 He died less than five months after the filming of this one.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest scene is when Shemp gets physical with the insurance adjuster! (And that came from the original short.)<\/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 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.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\/z120323zview_flagpolejitters2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagpole Jitters (1956) Director: Jules White Writer: Felix Adler, Jack White Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, David Bond,<\/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":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34637","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\/34637","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=34637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34688,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions\/34688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}