Spook Louder

Infobox Film
name = Spook Louder


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Clyde Bruckman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Stanley Blystone
Lew Kelly
Symona Boniface
Ted Lorch
Stanley Brown
Charles Middleton
Shirley Patterson
cinematography = John Stumar |
editing = Paul Borofsky
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US April 2, 1943
runtime = 15' 59"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:147411
imdb_id = 0036381
preceded_by = "Dizzy Detectives"
followed_by = "Back from the Front"

"Spook Louder" is the 69th 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

Told in flashback by a professor in an interview with a newspaper reporter, this is the story of The Stooges as traveling salesmen trying their best to sell their "Miracle Reducing Machine," which essentially shakes and rattles off the pounds (as Curly's demonstrates). As luck would have it, the boys stumble on the home of Graves the inventor (Ted Lorch), who assumed the Stooges are the new caretakers. Graves is on his way to Washington, D.C. to test his new death ray machine, and leaves his eerie spooky mansion in the hands of the trio. Naturally, spies disguised in Halloween costumes show up once Graves departs. The Stooges are on edge the entire time, particularly because mysterious cream pies come flying out of thin air.The harried reporter finally asks, pacing frantically, "I can't stand this any more, Professor! WHO was throwing those pies?""Oh, I threw the pies!" chortles the professor, who gets one in the face himself as the short fades out!

Notes

*During World War II, the Stooges made a few comedies that engaged in propaganda against on the then-enemy Japanese, including "Spook Louder", "Booby Dupes" and "The Yoke's on Me", which no longer reflect America's official relationship with Japan.cite book
last = Solomon
first = Jon
authorlink = Jon Solomon
coauthors =
title = "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"
publisher = Comedy III Productions, Inc
date = 2002
location =
pages = 226
id =
isbn = 0971186804]
*The title "Spook Louder" is a pun combining the request "speak louder" with the "spooks" of the mansion.

References

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).