Rl.
Sep 24 / Prod. No. 555 / 17 m
/ p d Jules White /
st scr Clyde Bruckman / ph
Benjamine Kline / e Charles Hochberg
/ a Victor Greene / C:
Richard Fiske (Sergeant), Judy Malcolm, Sethma Williams (Girls in Hangar)
and Harry Semels (Test Flight Bystander)
SYN:
The Stooges are the Wrong Brothers, a zany group of
aircraft inventor/pilots who have 30 days to prove to the Army that
their new plane "The Buzzard", can revolutionize flying.
In the process of preparing the Buzzard, Moe gets knocked into a tub
of quick drying rubber cement. Curly and Larry attempt to help their
partner by expanding the rubber with an air hose. Little do they know
that they are filling him with helium. Moe floats to the top of the
hangar and then out into the sky and Curly and Larry take aim with
a shotgun and blast him to safety. At last when the boys are ready
to test the new-fangled flying wonder, they discover one more snag:
the plane is too wide to move out of the hangar. The problem is resolved
when they saw the hangar door wider to roll the Buzzard out into the
limelight. As if that wasn't enough, they discover that flying isn't
as easy as it looks from the ground and the test flight fails when
curly throws out the gear lever. The boys are drafted in the service
for their blunder. For the sergeant's benefit, the Stooges perform
a peculiar marching sequence (more like skip-to-the-loo), and disrupt
the whole platoon as well as their commanding officer.
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know some of the sequences first appeared in the short Boobs
in Arms (1940). This saved the studio production money during the
World War II era.
WT:
Pest
Pilots FN: The gag of an oversized aircraft
in a small hangar was later revived in The Three Stooges in Orbit
(1962).
