Higher Than a Kite

Higher Than a Kite

Infobox Film
name = Higher Than a Kite


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Monte Collins
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Dick Curtis
Duke York
cinematography = John Stumar |
editing = Paul Borofsky
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 30, 1943
runtime = 17' 28"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:144822
imdb_id = 0036000
preceded_by = "Three Little Twirps"
followed_by = "I Can Hardly Wait"

"Higher Than a Kite" is the 72nd 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 want to fly for the Royal Air Force, but end up as mechanics working in a motor-pool garage. When given the assignment of getting a 'squeak' out of the General's car from the his assistant Kelly (Duke York), they get sidetrack after Moe's head gets stuck in a pipe. After several painful attempts, they finally unscrew Moe from the tight quarters, and he eventually chases Larry and Curly around the vehicle, breaking the windshield in the process. The Stooges disassemble the entire engine, and are still puzzled, as they are not exactly certain what a squeak looks like. Kelly comes to retrieve the General's car, with the Stooges still hoping to be airmen.

The trio promptly evacuate the garage after Kelly realizes what they have done, only to end up hiding out in a bomb mistaken for a sewer pipe. The bomb is then dropped behind enemy lines (reflecting the recent British bombing of Cologne, Germany in June 1942 [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 230; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804] ), and quickly disguise themselves as German officers. Marshalls Bommel (Dick Curtis) and Boring (Vernon Dent) then enter, and go about flirting with pretty Moronica (Larry in drag). The Stooges eventually steal enemy secrets from under the nose of the Axis marshalls, knock the marshalls cold, and evacuate quickly.

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).


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