''Three Little Twirps'' is a 1943 short subject directed by Harry Edwards starring American slapstick comedy team

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starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are poster hangers who manage to destroy one of the main posters when Moe pushed Curly into the poster just as their boss Herman ( Stanley Blystone) comes by to check on them and they just got fired. The boys soon realize that their pay consists of tickets to the circus, but when Curly finds a huge roll of tickets, the trio start scalping them at discount price. After that they pursued by two men who wanted to arrest them for selling tickets for even money which is against the law, Curly destroys the Bearded lady (which she is a Circus freak) and he and Larry disguise themselves as a horse which Curly always loves to impersonate. After being caught by the circus owner (Herman as well) and the local sheriff (

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) who was about to take them to prison forever, Herman decides to hire the Stooges as human targets for the spear-throwing "Sultan of Abudaba" (

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) but however they managed to escape from the Spear thrower by jumping into a crater Curly created after he fell from the high wire.

Production notes

''Three Little Twirps'' was filmed on August 3–7, 1942. It is the eighth of sixteen Stooge shorts with the word "three" in the title. ''Three Little Twirps'' was the second and last Stooge film directed by Harry Edwards. Plagued with alcoholism, Edwards developed a reputation at Columbia Pictures as the studio's worst director. Having previously directed the laborious 1942 effort '' Matri-Phony'' — which took over three weeks to complete (the regular shooting schedule was 3-4 consecutive days) — the Stooges decided they had enough and requested never to work with him again.

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Quotes

* Curly: Here's an impersonation of a wolf. histlesHiya, babe! * Moe: I'll take ninety tickets! * Larry: Beat it, Grandpa! We got no time for kibbitzers!
* Curly: "I haven't been to the circus since I got out of the fourth grade!" * Moe: "Yeah,that was last year!"

References

1943 films 1943 comedy films The Three Stooges films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures short films Films directed by Harry Edwards (director) American comedy films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{short-comedy-film-stub