Half Shot Shooters

Half Shot Shooters (1936)

The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.

Date of release
1936-04-30
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (14)
Runtime
19m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jack White

Casting

Interesting facts

Half Shot Shooters is a 1936 short subject directed by Preston Black starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 14th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Half Shot Shooters was filmed on March 18–21, 1936. The film's title is a pun on Half Shot at Sunrise (1930), an RKO Radio Pictures movie with Wheeler & Woolsey.

This film marked the inaugural appearance of Vernon Dent, who appeared in more Stooge shorts than any other supporting actor. It also marked the final appearance of the old Columbia Pictures logo of a woman bearing a torch during the credits.

Unusually for one of their films, the Three Stooges are killed at the end of Half Shot Shooters. This plot device was used sporadically through their films, also being implemented in 1939's Three Little Sew and Sews, You Nazty Spy! and I'll Never Heil Again among others.

Dick Wessel had a minor role as a gunnery soldier but made his first appearance as a character in 1947's Fright Night (Shemp Howard's return).

Half-Shot Shooters has been criticized for its sadistic violence executed against the Stooges, with MacGillicuddy breaking Moe's arm, deafening all three, and then killing them at the conclusion.

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