Three Little Sew and Sews

Infobox Film
name = Three Little Sew and Sews


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director = Del Lord
writer = Ewart Adamson
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Harry Semels
James C. Morton
Phyllis Barry
Bud Jamison
Vernon Dent
cinematography = Lucien Ballard |
editing = Charles Nelson
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US January 9, 1939
runtime = 15' 47"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:143134
imdb_id = 0030866
preceded_by = "Mutts to You"
followed_by = "We Want Our Mummy"

"Three Little Sew and Sews" is the 36th 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 as sailors employed in a ships' tailor shop. The three steal some officers' uniforms in order to go ashore. While pretending to be an Admiral, Curly and his "aides" (Moe and Larry) are tricked into stealing a submarine by a pair of spies. The Stooges eventually capture the spies, but whilst reenacting the capture for the real Admiral, Curly accidentally detonates a bomb. [cite web
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title = Three Little Sew and Sews (1938)
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Notes

The title "Sew and Sew" is a play on "so and so," a softly worded insulting term for a person. [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 140; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]

Goofs

When Curly opens the top of the sub, the strings directing the torpedos become visible.

Strings are also clearly visible in the final scene where the Stooges have become angels.

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).
*""; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).