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Columbia Shorts 1940

48. HOW HIGH IS UP?

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Rl. July 26 / Prod. No. 458 / 16 m / p Del Lord and Hugh McCollum / d Del Lord / st scr Elwood Ullman / ph Allen G. Siegler / e Arthur Seid / C: Bruce Bennett (Joe, the foreman), Vernon Dent (Blake, the Building's owner) and Edmund Cobb (Worker)

SYN: The Stooges are Minute Menders who travel from city to city performing all kinds of odd jobs. While passing a construction site one day, they decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the workmen's lunch pails. They get caught in the act, however, and have to make a quick getaway and end up at a nearby job recruiting pow-wow for the construction site. Now among a line of workers seeking employment, the Stooges somehow land jobs as riveters to work on the new steel building's 97th floor. Curly who is afraid of heights is cured quickly when Moe puts a blind-fold over his eyes so he can't look down. The only problem is that he can't "Look" at all and ends up falling off a beam and lands on the next story below. The Stooges' hunger quickly catches up to them and they decide to go on break. Larry, the rivet "Prep Man" uses the fire to cook up some hot dogs. When he notices the supervisor watching his every move, he quickly stops pitching hot dogs and starts pitching rivets. Curly snags the rivet in mid-air, still thinking it's a hot dog, and starts chomping away. During this time, the building owner (Vernon Dent) has noticed the wild mess the boys are creating out of his structure, and there is hell to pay. The Stooges realize their genius isn't appreciated and jump off the building using Curly's parachute, and land safely in their Minute Mender Machine and drive off to safety.

Quick Hits:

- Bruce Bennett, who plays a construction worker, played Tarzan in a 1938 serial under his real name - Herman Brix.

 

FN: Footage reused in Stop! Look! and Laugh! (7/60).