Three Missing Links

Infobox Film
name = Three Missing Links


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Searle Kramer
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
James C. Morton
Monte Collins
Jane Hamilton
Naba
cinematography = Henry Freulich
editing = Charles Nelson
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 29, 1938
runtime = 18' 04"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:143127
imdb_id = 0030868
preceded_by = "Violent Is the Word for Curly"
followed_by = "Mutts to You"

"Three Missing Links" is the 33rd 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 boys are janitors at Hollywood studio Super Terrific Productions. They are cleaning the office of B. O. Botswaddle (James C. Morton), who is looking for a leading man for his next picture. After nearly destroying Botswaddle's office, Curly does his classic imitation of a "chicken with its head cut off" (Curly's trademark spinning around on the floor move). Impressed, Botswaddle sends the boys off to Africa to begin shooting.

While setting up camp, Curly buys some "love candy" from a cannibalistic medicine man (Naba), in hopes of impressing leading lady Mirabel Mirabel (Jane Hamilton). Problems arise when Curly (dressed as a gorilla) get entangled with a real gorilla, who scares the film crew off the set.

Notes

The title "Three Missing Links" refers to a transitional fossil, particularly one that is connected with human evolution. [ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil/ Transitional_fossil] ]

Quotes

*Curly: "I'm the Robert Taylor type."

References

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).