Calling All Curs

Infobox Film
name = Calling All Curs


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Thea Goodman
Searle Kramer
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Lynton Brent
Cy Schindell
Isabelle LaMal
Beatrice Curtis
Libby Taylor
cinematography = |
editing = Charles Nelson
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US August 25, 1939
runtime = 17' 19"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Saved by the Belle"
followed_by = "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise"
amg_id = 1:141744
imdb_id = 0031131

"Calling All Curs" is the 41st 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 skilled veterinarians at a pet hospital who are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford (Isabelle LaMal). When dognappers posing as reporters (Lynton Brent, Cy Schindell) dognap the poodle, the boys frantically try to trick Mrs. Bedford by disguising a mutt as the Garçon. However, Mrs. Bedford's maid (Libby Taylor), who is frightened of dogs, accidentally vacuums a clump of glued on fur off of the mutt's shaggy coat, Mrs. Bedford threatens to throw the Stooges in jail. Desperate, the trio use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys' hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight. The boys hear Garçon quietly barking from inside a closet, only to discover that the prized poodle has had a litter of pups.

Notes

*The title "Calling All Curs" is a pun on the phrase "Calling all cars!" [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 105; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]
*A colorized version of this film was released in 2006. It was part of the DVD collection entitled " [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H5TH1G/ Stooges on the Run] ."

Quotes

**Curly: "One little kitten lost its mitten. How careless."

**Larry: "Do you think it's serious, Dr. Curly?"
**Curly: "Yes, to say the least, if not less."

References

Further reading

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