Squareheads of the Round Table

Infobox Film
name = Squareheads of the Round Table


caption =
director = Edward Bernds
writer = Edward Bernds
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Christine McIntyre
Vernon Dent
Philip Van Zandt
Jock Mahoney
Harold Brauer
cinematography = Allen G. Siegler |
editing = Henry DeMond
producer = Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US March 4, 1948
runtime = 18' 06"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:141766
imdb_id = 0040831
preceded_by = "Pardon My Clutch"
followed_by = "Fiddlers Three"

"Squareheads of the Round Table" is the 106th 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 troubadours in medieval times. The villainous Black prince has designs on marriage to Elaine, the princess. She however is in love with Cedric, the blacksmith. The Stooges try to intervene for Cedric by serenading Elaine. They are captured by the king’s guards and condemned to be beheaded. Elaine sends them tools baked in a loaf of bread and they escape the dungeon.

While running from the guards Moe overhears the Black Prince plotting with a coconspirator to murder the king. The Stooges save the day by causing a diversion by dancing in amour to Stephen Foster’s "Old Folks at Home," thus allowing Elaine to free Cedric. Finally, the King realizes the plot and jails The Black Prince and his fellow plotter. Elaine is allowed to marry Cedric, and they all live happily ever after.

Quotes

**The Black Prince to Elaine: "You'll forget all about love when I marry you."

**Moe: "We're gonna make that Black Prince feel mighty blue."

**The King: "My daughter marry a Smith?"
**Shemp: "Take it easy your Majesty; millions of women marry Smiths every year."

Tidbits

*Like "Fiddlers Three" and "The Hot Scots", "Squareheads of the Round Table" was filmed on the existing set of the feature film "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest".
*"Squareheads of the Round Table" was reworked in 1954 as "Knutzy Knights", using ample stock footage.

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"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).