Stop, Look and Laugh

Infobox Film
name = Stop! Look! and Laugh!

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imagesize = 350px
caption =
director = Don Appell
Louis Brandt
writers = Saul Ward
Sid Kuller
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Paul Winchell
Jerry Mahoney
Knucklehead Smiff
The Marquis Chimps
Joe Bolton
cinematography = Glen Gano |
editing = Jerome Thoms
producer = Sid Kuller
Harry A. Romm
Martha Vera Romm
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 1, 1960
runtime = 77' 50"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Have Rocket, Will Travel"
followed_by = "Snow White and the Three Stooges"
amg_id = 1:129224
imdb_id = 0173256

"Stop! Look! and Laugh!" was a feature-length Three Stooges compilation featuring all of the supposed original Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard (Shemp Howard was the original third Stooge.)

Eleven of the Stooges shorts were shown and bridged together with segments featuring Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. Near the end of the film, the Marquis Chimps performed a fairy tale, as part of Jerry Mahoney's bedtime story.

The film, oddly enough, provoked controversy due to a lawsuit filed by the Three Stooges, who claimed producer Harry A. Romm who had produced their previous film "Have Rocket, Will Travel" created the film without their knowledge or permission. Columbia Pictures, which would eventually distribute the film, apologized and admitted that it had made an error by putting together a compilation of Three Stooges shorts behind their backs. Both parties agreed to have the film released on July 4, 1960, and to provide the funding for the Three Stooges' then-newly-formed production company, Normandy Productions. [Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). "The Three Stooges Scrapbook", p. 91, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465 ]

Featured shorts

The following eleven Stooge shorts were featured in "Stop! Look! and Laugh!":
* "Goofs and Saddles" (1937)
* "Violent is the Word for Curly" (1938)
* "Calling All Curs" (1939)
* "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise" (1939)
* "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940)
* "How High Is Up?" (1940)
* "What's the Matador?" (1942)
* "Sock-a-Bye Baby" (1942)
* "Higher Than a Kite" (1943)
* "Micro-Phonies" (1945)
* "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947) [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 527; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]

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: 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).