4 STOOGES SHORTS IN COLOR & ANAGLYPH 3D!

DISORDER IN THE COURT

Disorder in the Court was filmed over six days on April 1–6, 1936. The film title is a play on the stereotypical judge’s cry, “Order in the court!”

A colorized version of this film was released in 2006 as part of the DVD collection “Stooges on the Run.”

Sol Horwitz, the father of Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, makes an uncredited appearance as a member of the public audience.

MALICE IN THE PALACE

Malice in the Palace is a 1949 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 117th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Malice in the Palace was filmed on June 8–11, 1948. It was remade in 1956 as Rumpus in the Harem, using ample stock footage from the original. Footage was reused from Wee Wee Monsieur when the Stooges arrive at a palace disguised as Santa Clauses in a sleigh being pulled by a horse wearing reindeer antlers.

According to The Three Stooges Journal, a part was written for Curly Howard after his brief cameo in 1947’s Hold That Lion!. The lobby card photo noticeably features a slim, mustachioed Curly as an angry chef. However, his illness caused his scenes to be cut (another story is that Moe Howard decided that “The Four Stooges” could not be sustained). A scene closely resembling the lobby card is in the finished film (with Hassan ben Sober in Curly’s stead); ultimately Larry assumed the role as the chef.

SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS

Sing a Song of Six Pants is a 1947 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 102nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians.

Sing a Song of Six Pants was filmed on April 1–4, 1947. The title is a takeoff on “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” the classic English nursery rhyme. The name of the tailor shop is “Pip Boys,” a parody of the auto service chain Pep Boys originally opened in Philadelphia in 1921. Sing a Song of Six Pants was remade in 1953 as Rip, Sew and Stitch, using ample recycled footage from the original.

There is an audio goof in the film during a scene when Moe Howard is making the pancakes in the pants presser, you can hear the director Jules White yelling “Cut! right as the camera dissolves to the next scene.

BRIDELESS GROOM

Brideless Groom is a 1947 short subject directed by Edward Bernds starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 101st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians.

Brideless Groom was filmed from March 12–13, 1947. The plot theme of Brideless Groom is not unique, having been used in (among others) Buster Keaton‘s 1925 comedy Seven Chances (remade in 1999 as The Bachelor starring Chris O’Donnell). Writer Clyde Bruckman was also partially responsible for Seven Chances.

The film features longtime Stooges supporting player Emil Sitka‘s best-remembered line “Hold hands, you lovebirds!” (the line is actually engraved on Sitka’s headstone). Brideless Groom would be recycled in the second half of 1956‘s Husbands Beware.