{"id":34739,"date":"2023-12-14T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34739"},"modified":"2023-12-08T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:44:48","slug":"muscle-up-a-little-closer-1957-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34739","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Muscle Up A Little Closer&#8221; (1957) 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\/z121423musclecloser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Muscle Up A Little Closer <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard<\/strong><strong>, Larry Fine, Joe Besser<\/strong> and <strong>Maxine Gates.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Hilarious?\u00a0 Better Than Ever!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe, Larry and Moe plan to propose marriage to their girls.\u00a0 Joe discovers that the ring he bought for his sweetheart is missing.\u00a0 The boys believe that a bully from work stole it.\u00a0 Our guys decide to confront the lug in the company gym.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <em>Muscle Up A Little Closer\u00a0<\/em>Larry and Moe wear more conservative haircuts for the first time in the series. The new haircuts would appear from time to time in the Stooges&#8217; shorts with Joe Besser (he suggested the new style do&#8217;s).\u00a0 The problem was that most of the new shorts contained footage from previous Stooges&#8217; outings and the hairstyles wouldn&#8217;t match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Muscle Up A Little Closer <\/strong><\/em>(1957) earns 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\/z121423musclecloser2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscle Up A Little Closer (1957) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser 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":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34739","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=34739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34740,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34739\/revisions\/34740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}