Three Smart Saps

Infobox Film
name = Three Smart Saps


caption =
director = Jules White
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
writer = Clyde Bruckman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Bud Jamison
Sally Cairns
Barbara Slater
Julie Gibson
Frank Coleman
Julie Duncan
John Tyrrell
Victor Travers
Eddie Laughton
cinematography = Benjamin H. Kline |
editing = Jerome Thoms
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 30, 1942
runtime = 16' 40"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:141433
imdb_id = 0035436
preceded_by = "Matri-Phony"
followed_by = "Even As IOU"

"Three Smart Saps" is the 64th 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 must get their future father-in-law out of jail. Apparently, the father is a prison warden who has been overthrown and put behind bars by the local mafia. The Stooges manage to sneak into the prison, find the father-in-law to be, and start snapping as many incriminating photos of the mafia's party as possible. Eventually, the real crooks are served justice, and the Stooges marry their sweethearts.

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).