You Nazty Spy!

You Nazty Spy! (1940)

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In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.

Date of release
1940-01-19
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (27)
Runtime
18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

You Nazty Spy! is a 1940 comedy film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 44th short film released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

The title is a parody of comedian Joe Penner's catchphrase "You Nasty Man!" as well as the 1939 Warner Bros. film Confessions of a Nazi Spy.

Moe Howard, as "Moe Hailstone", became the first American actor to portray/imitate Adolf Hitler in a released film, although Chaplin's portrayal was shot before the Stooges' film went into production.

Both Moe Howard and Larry Fine cited You Nazty Spy! as their favorite Three Stooges short.

You Nazty Spy! was followed by a sequel, I'll Never Heil Again, in 1941. Moronika would also be the setting for Dizzy Pilots (1943).

Larry uses the alias 'Moronica' while disguised as a woman in Higher Than a Kite (1943).

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