Some More of Samoa

Infobox Film
name = Some More of Samoa


caption =
director = Del Lord
producer = Hugh McCollum
Del Lord
writer = Elwood Ullman
Harry Edwards
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Mary Ainslee
Symona Boniface
Louise Carver
Duke York
cinematography = L. William O'Connell |
editing = Burton Kramer
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US December 4, 1941
runtime = 16' 40"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:141257
imdb_id = 0034216
preceded_by = "In the Sweet Pie and Pie"
followed_by = "Loco Boy Makes Good"

"Some More of Samoa" is the 59th 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 run a tree doctor business (Elite Painless Tree Surgeons - "The biggest grafters in town"). They are employed by a rich old man to cure his Puckerless Persimmon tree. The Stooges decide that the tree is pining away for a mate. When told this, the old man offers them $10,000 if they can bring him a mate. He then tells them that only one other specimen of the tree exists, and it is found on the cannibal isle of Rhum Boogie.

The Stooges arrive on the isle of Rhum Boogie without Curly. Larry tells Moe that Curly has left to "have a date with a mermaid." Upon landing, Moe and Larry are soon captured by the cannibals living on the island. They are brought to see the tribe's king, only to discover that Curly has just been playing dice with the king and winning.

The king soon discovers that Curly has been cheating. He then demands that Curly marry his sister, or all three Stooges will be cooked that night in a "roast Stooge" stew. Curly is happy to oblige until he discovers that the king's sister is old and ugly. He then refuses to marry her, and the Stooges are doomed to become cannibal food.

Fortunately, the Stooges manage to escape the cannibals before they are cooked. While running away, Curly grabs the puckerless persimmon tree. After a run-in with an angry alligator, the Stooges finally make it back to their boat. Unfortunately for them, their boat begins to sink as soon as they leave shore. The short ends with them desperately bailing water as they sink, while the cannibals' spears rain down on them from the shore.

Notes

The title is a self-contained pun, as "Samoa" is pronounced similarly to slurring "some mo' o'". The film itself is set on the fictional island of rhum boogie, not Samoa.cite book
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title = "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"
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date = 2002
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pages = 195
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Quotes

** Larry "(after being bitten on the foot by an alligator)": "I lost the end of my shoe!"
** Moe: "The end of a shoe ain't important!"
** Larry: "Well, this one is! I think it had my toes in it!"

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).