The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive nativ... Read allThe stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom ... Read allThe stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a femal... Read all
- Moe
- (as Moe)
- Larry
- (as Larry)
- Curly
- (as Curly)
- Native
- (uncredited)
- Dr. Ba Loni Sulami
- (uncredited)
- B.O. Botswaddle
- (uncredited)
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After causing the usual amount of chaos and mayhem as janitors at a movie studio, Moe, Larry, and Curly are cast as two prehistoric men and a gorilla. Guess who has the gorilla look about him?
But that's a key part because as the gorilla you get to make love to Jane Hamilton, nicely and scantily clad in animal skins as befits a prehistoric sexpot.
For realism's sake they decide to shoot the thing in the real jungle as real as Hollywood back lot jungles got in those days. Of course when a real gorilla resents the invasion of his turf, the fun really starts.
A lot of the same gags, compacted into Three Missing Links can be found in the later Abbott&Costello feature film, Africa Screams. Best of course is seeing a real battle of wits between Curly and the gorilla.
I'd say they were evenly matched.
A Hollywood setting, Moe, Larry and Curly are janitors(?) at a movie studio called, Super Terrific Productions. Producer B. O. Botswaddle (James C. Morton, ofcourse) needs an actor to play a gorilla and Curly is chosen -- because he's just plain NUTS. Botswaddle claims he looks like the missing link? No arguement there. The guys head to Africa to film, "Jilted in the Jungle"(?) and its insane.
Best gag is Curly dressed as an ape confronting Naba, another gorilla (played by stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan) and the tribal witch doctor, Dr. Ba Loni Sulami (real life boxer John Lester Johnson). The doc gives him a "love portion" pill which is something like Viagra! Amazing
Lots of funny names; character actor Monte Collins plays Herbert Herrybone and Jane Hamilton plays Mirabel Mirabel. Searle Kramer's script is nuts, and enough material to have made this into a film. The Stooge possibilities were endless. Kramer later branched into tv and wrote for the FLYING NUN and GREEN ACRES.
Memorable line; "We're terrific! We're colossal! We're even mediocre!"
Always on remastered Columbia dvd, generally by decades, 30s, 40s and 50s episodes. Thanks much to METV for running these oldies Saturdays.
They look just like the Neanderthals Botswaddle is looking for to shoot his next motion picture. The Stooges are too dumb to realize they've just been insulted. They are just happy to become actors.
The real fun happens when the film crew arrives in Africa. We get tons, literally, of gags signs to puns to outrageous physical stuff. (i.e. The Stooges see a sign on a hut that reads, "Dr. Ba Loni Sulami, Medicine Man, Hours 2-5 Or By Appointment.")
The best gags, IMO, come, when a real ape appears and gets confused with Curly the ape role. Both look identical and mayhem ensues and nobody knows if it's Curly or the real gorilla.
Jane Hamilton looked hot as the film-within-in-a-film female star "Mirabel Mirabel."
This is a very good Three Stooges short. Its funny and its cast includes Monte Collins, Jane Hamilton, Naba, John Lester Johnson, and James C. Morton! Very good acting by Johnson and Morton! The Stooges perform very good in this Three Stooges short! The lion and gorilla scenes are hilarious! I recommend this one to all Three Stooges fans!
Did you know
- TriviaThe first The Three Stooges short to be directed by Jules White.
- GoofsJust after Curly Howard throws mud at Moe Howard's face, who then hurls it to Larry Fine, against the tent behind them, you can see the shadow of the boom mic, (something hard to spot in the many The Three Stooges films).
- ConnectionsEdited into The Three Stooges: Volume II (1982)
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- Gorillas of 1939
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- Runtime
- 18m
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1