Flat Foot Stooges

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is a very funny Three Stooges short. Its hilarious. The Stooges are a little different in this one. Dick Curtis is very good in this one and his character is a good one. Chester Conklinand and Lola Jensen perform well as father daughter! The scenes with the fire house mouse and the bulldog is very funny. There is another fire fighter Three Stooges short called False alarms which it is a great one! I recommend this one!

This goofy story has to remind you of OUR GANG/LITTLE RASCALS who had their own fire department where everything went haywire. The Stooges are now firemen at Engine Company Number One?

The station, run by chief Kelly (Chester Conklin) is falling apart, and the fire engine is still pulled by horses? Crooked salesman Reardon (played by tough guy Dick Curtis) wants to sell Kelly some new stuff, but he won't budge. Without too much surprise, the crooked creep sabotages the fire engine.

A fire breaks out and what the heck are the Stooges gonna' do? I agree with the last reviewer, Charley Chase, who directed and wrote this comedy, had the Keystone Cops in mind, now acting as firemen. Moe, Larry and Curly give it their best shot ever. Both Chester Conklin and his brother Heinie (who plays a traffic cop) began their careers in silent films as members of the Keystone Cops. It all makes sense.

Footnote; this was the first time Larry would use Curly's famous line, "I'm a victim of circumstance!"

If you're a western buff, you'll recognize Dick Curtis, who made a career of playing villains to the max. He appeared in several westerns shot at the same studio, the perfect scoundral for the Stooges.

Just plain crazy. Always on dvd released via Columbia, generally by decades, 30s, 40s and 50s episodes. Some of the dvd boxes rely on themes and combine various episodes. Thanks much to METV for running these oldies Saturdays.

FLAT FOOT STOOGES is a very weird plot. How did they come up with the idea of a duck laying an egg with gunpowder to start a fire. The stooges also play firemen in SOUP TO NUTS, FALSE ALARMS, & IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. Watch one of those films instead.

** out of 4 stars.

In all honesty, this episode was another one of the Stooges's funniest installments. Based on some of the reviews I found on IMDb, it's also surprisingly underrated.

Charley Chase is definitely no Del Lord or Jules White. But, helming the chairs of writer and director for this short, he created perhaps one of the liveliest Three Stooges episodes ever made. Whoever said that this episode wasn't funny must have cotton for brains, because I found it to be hilarious. The comedy landed with amazing fluency and timing throughout the short, and the plot tied together nicely. While I do admit that there may have been a sense of disorganization in the short, Chase nevertheless made it all work and actually made something fun out of it all.

The performances of the cast were as entertaining and spritely as ever, if I may say. I mean, yes, the cast often spent a majority of the time interrupting or talking over each other, sometimes the Stooges even corrected themselves with what they're saying. In the long run, though, it made their performances funny, and it enhanced them with a human sense of accuracy. The Stooges themselves still had the best moments out of everyone, and it looked like they were having great time working on this short.

In the end, "Flat Foot Stooges" was another member of the Three Stooges filmography that provided a really great time.

Flat Foot Stooges (1938)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Decent short has the Three Stooges working at a fire company that still uses a horse and buggy to go to the fires. A salesman tries to make them come current but the owner refuses so the man accidentally starts a fire at the firehouse. It's hard to believe one could say that a Stooges short was just too silly for its own good but that's pretty much the case here. Have you ever seen a duck that eats some gun powder and then lays an egg that explodes? You'll get to see that here as well as another scene where bulldog fights a mouse only to get beat up. Those two items aren't really funny and that's pretty much the story from start to finish. We get a few nice gags but even the best ones will only put a smile on your face and none of them will have you laughing at out. The entire second half of the film deals with the firehouse being on fire but the Stooges manage not to realize even though they're downstairs from the blaze. This leads to a rather amusing scene where they must try to get the wagon around town without any horses.