Stone Age Romeos

Infobox Film
name = Stone Age Romeos


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Zion Myers
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Emil Sitka
Dee Green
Virginia Hunter
Nancy Saunders
Joe Palma
Cy Schindell
Heine Conklin
cinematography = Ira Morgan |
editing = Paul Borofsky
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US June 2, 1955
runtime = 15' 48"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:148909
imdb_id = 0048660
preceded_by = "Bedlam in Paradise"
followed_by = "Wham-Bam-Slam!"

"Stone Age Romeos" is the 163rd 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 hope to collect a reward by proving to museum curator B. Bopper (Emil Sitka) that cavemen indeed still exist. They embark on an expedition with 16mm camera in hand, ready to film whatever they find. Eventually, the Stooges return to Bopper with a film showing three cavemen living in the prehistoric age. The film illustrates the three tending to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk, hunting fish, and gathering eggs. The film also shows the three cavemen defending their women from other fellow cavemen. Bopper is ecstatic, and is preparing to cut the Stooges a check. However, Bopper overhears the sneaky stooges talking about how the film was a hoax, as they played the cavemen themselves. The curator is furious, and promptly shoots the three frauds in their derrieres, before shooting himself in the foot.

Notes

*"Stone Age Romeos" borrows lots of caveman footage from "I'm a Monkey's Uncle", however the plot of the other footage is original.
*Entertainer Dinah Shore is name-checked by Larry Fine in the film.

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard, (Citadel Press, 1977). ISBN 0806507233
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon, (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002). ISBN 0971186804
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994). ISBN 0806509465
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002). ISBN 0767905563
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry, (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006). ISBN 1581823630