Three Little Twirps

Infobox Film
name = Three Little Twirps


caption =
director = Harry Edwards
writer = Monte Collins
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Stanley Blystone
Chester Conklin
Bud Jamison
Heinie Conklin
Al Thompson
Duke York
cinematography = John Stumar |
editing = Paul Borofsky
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 9, 1943
runtime = 15' 27"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Back from the Front"
followed_by = "Higher Than a Kite"
amg_id = 1:147795
imdb_id = 0036434

"Three Little Twirps" is the 71st 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 poster hangers who manage to destroy one of the main posters just as their boss Herman (Stanley Blystone) comes by to check on them. The boys soon realize that their pay consists of tickets to the circus, but when Curly finds a huge roll of tickets, the trio start scalping them at discount price. After being caught by the circus owner (Herman as well) and the local sheriff (Bud Jamison), Herman decided to hire the Stooges as human targets for the spear-throwing "Sultan of Abudaba" (Duke York).

Notes

'Twirps' is often misspelled 'twerps.'

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"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).