Pardon My Backfire

Infobox Film
name = Pardon My Backfire


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Felix Adler
Jack White
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Benny Rubin
Frank Sully
Phil Arnold
Fred Kelsey
Barbara Bartay
Diana Darrin
Angela Stevens
Ruth Godfrey
cinematography = Henry Freulich
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US August 15, 1953
runtime = 15' 52"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:147321
imdb_id = 0046162
preceded_by = "Spooks!"
followed_by = "Rip, Sew and Stitch"

"Pardon My Backfire" is the 149th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are auto mechanics who need money in order to marry their sweethearts. While working in their auto garage, some escaped convicts pull in with a damaged fender. While the trio are working on the vehicle, they hear a news flash over the radio about some escaped convicts. They put the pieces together and realize that the baddies are right in their garage. After capturing the crooks, their sweethearts show up and the Stooges delight in telling them about the reward money.

Production

"Pardon My Backfire" was the second and last short made by Columbia with the Stooges in 3-D.

ee also

* "Spooks!"

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).