Violent Is the Word for Curly

Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)

THEY'RE CRACKED IN THE CRANIUM...ON A CUCKOO CAMPUS!

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

Date of release
1938-07-02
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (18)
Runtime
18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Charley Chase

Casting

Interesting facts

Violent Is the Word for Curly is a 1938 short subject directed by Charley Chase starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 32nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Violent Is the Word for Curly was filmed March 14–17, 1938. The film's title is a parody of the 1936 RKO film Valiant Is the Word for Carrie; the title is notable for being the first that has little bearing on the film's plot.

Footage was reused in the 1960 compilation feature film Stop! Look! and Laugh! A colorized version was released in 2004 as part of the DVD collection "Stooged & Confoosed."

Vesey O'Davoren appeared as Professor Hicks.

During one scene, Curly is tied to a revolving spit that is placed over an open fire. He is then "roasted" in order to thaw him out after having slept in an ice cream truck. Future Stooge director Edward Bernds was present during the filming and noticed that Curly's weight was causing a problem. "Curly was so heavy Moe and Larry couldn't turn the crank," Bernds said. "The straps holding him slipped and he was hanging directly over the fire.

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