''Stop! Look! and Laugh!'' is a 1960 feature-length

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compilation featuring

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, and

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. Eleven of the Stooges shorts were shown and bridged together with segments featuring

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and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the

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perform a version of

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narrated in rhyme by Winchell, with

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providing female voices and Alan Reed providing male voices, as part of Jerry's bedtime story. New York Stooges TV host Officer Joe Bolton (a staple of WPIX-TV through the early 1970s) has a cameo as a customer in a cafe.

Plot

Paul Winchell plays a father to Jerry Mahoney, who is avoiding going to school at all costs where he is failing his subjects. Mahoney's tricks range from painting the window black to sleep in, continually falling asleep, and pretending to be sick by painting spots on his face and heating a thermometer with a match to give him a temperature reading of 264F to stay home. Winchell relates stories that segue into scenes from Three Stooges short subjects with the film concluding with a loud party that is footage from '' Half-Wits Holiday''. As Winchell enters the home to complain of the noise, he is hit with one of the pies in that sequence's pie fight.

Production

The film provoked controversy due to a lawsuit filed by the Three Stooges, who claimed producer

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, who had produced their previous film ''

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'', created the film without their knowledge or permission.

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, which would eventually distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts without the team's consent. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4, 1960, and to provide the funding for the Three Stooges' then-newly formed production company, Normandy Production.

Featured shorts

The following eleven Stooge shorts were featured in ''Stop! Look! and Laugh!'': * '' Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise'' (1939) * ''

How High Is Up? ''How High is Up?'' is a 1940 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 48th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the co ...

'' (1940) * '' Violent Is the Word for Curly'' (1938) * '' Sock-a-Bye Baby'' (1942) * '' Higher Than a Kite'' (1943) * '' What's the Matador?'' (1942) * ''

Calling All Curs ''Calling All Curs'' is a 1939 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 41st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring th ...

'' (1939) * '' Goofs and Saddles'' (1937) * '' Micro-Phonies'' (1945) * ''

A Plumbing We Will Go ''A Plumbing We Will Go'' is a 1940 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 46th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring ...

'' (1940) * '' Half-Wits Holiday'' (1947)Solomon, Jon. (2002) ''The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion'', p. 527; Comedy III Productions, Inc.,

References

External links

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''Stop! Look! and Laugh!'' at threestooges.net
{{Cinderella 1960 films 1960 comedy films American slapstick comedy films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films Compilation films 1960s English-language films The Three Stooges films Films based on Charles Perrault's Cinderella 1960s American films

Plot

Production

Featured shorts

See also

References

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