Rl.
Sep. 28 / Prod. No. 152 / 19 m
/ d Raymond McCary / st
scr Felix Adler / ph Benjamin
Kline / e James Sweeney / C:
Dell Henderson (Dr. Graves), Jeanie Roberts (Hiccupping Nurse),
Ruth Hiatt (Whispering Nurse), Billy Gilbert (D.T. Patient), Little
Billy (Himself), Bud Jamison (Doctor), Hank Mann (Laborer), Bobby
Callahan (Messenger), Phyllis Crane (Anna Conda), Arthur West,
Joe Mills (Bit Men), Irene Coleman, Carmen Andre, Helen Splane,
Kay Hughes, Eve Reynolds, Eve Kimberly, Lucile Watson, Billie
Stockton, Betty Andre (Bit Nurses), Arthur Rankin, Neal Burns,
Joe Fine, Charles Dorety (Attendants) and Charles King (Anesthesiologist)
SYN:
At
the Los Arms Hospital, three brainless interns - Doctors Howard,
Fine and Howard - promise Dr. Graves, the hospital superintendant,
that they will devote the rest of their lives to the glorious
cause of "duty and humanity." This crazy short subject film
goes off the deep end with it's zany style of humor and wacky
one-liners. The Stooges break the glass out of poor Dr. Graves
office every time they leave it, and then scamper off into the
hospital on bicycles, horseback, and go karts. This is truly
a short-film unlike any other. Hey, have you ever seen an apple
with the skin on the inside???
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that this first "official" Three Stooges comedy
was their only short to be nominated for an Academy Award
as Best Short Subject.
SD:
4 (W 8/29 to SA 9/1/34) / FN: On
August 8, 1934, Columbia moved its comedy department from Gower
Street to California Studio on Beechwood Drive. In "Men
in Black", the Stooges ad-libbed the bizarre medical
terminology for their surgical instruments, and several scenes
were also cut from Felix Adler's script, including an alternate
ending in which the Stooges meet Nell, "their" girl. She turns
out to be siamese triplets!
