Space Ship Sappy

Space Ship Sappy

Infobox Film
name = Space Ship Sappy


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Jack White
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Joe Besser
Benny Rubin
Doreen Woodbury
Emil Sitka
Lorraine Crawford
Harriette Tarler
Marilyn Hanold
cinematography = Henry Freulich |
editing = Saul A. Goodkind
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US June 13, 1957
runtime = 16' 15"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "A Merry Mix Up"
followed_by = "Guns a Poppin!"
amg_id = 1:150228
imdb_id = 0051001

"Space Ship Sappy" is the 178th 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 meet up with slightly eccentric Professor A.K. Rimple (Benny Rubin) and his daughter (Doreen Woodbury) who ask the trio to help them with a space mission. The mission lands the group on the planet Sunev (Venus spelled backwards), where the Stooges are taken with three attractive female aliens. At first, sparks fly (literally) when the girls kiss the boys. But then the ladies turn cannibalistic, and are about the suck the Stooges' blood. The boys jump back in the rocket ship (knocking the Professor and his daughter out cold), and work their way back to Earth.

Notes

*49-year-old Joe Besser suffered a mild heart attack shortly after filming "Space Ship Sappy". Production of the Stooge shorts was put on hold for several weeks while Besser recovered. [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 491; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]
*Singer Elvis Presley is name-checked by Larry Fine in the film.
*"Space Ship Sappy" features Moe and Larry's more "gentlemanly" haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. These had to be used sparingly, however, as most of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old. [Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). "The Three Stooges Scrapbook", p. 264, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465 ]

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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