Even as IOU

Even as IOU (1942)

A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!

Дата выхода
1942-09-18
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (11)
Длительность
16 мин
Жанры
комедия
Режиссёр
Del Lord

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Интересные факты

Even as IOU is a 1942 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 65th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Filming of Even as IOU was completed April 18–22, 1942.

There are several references to The New Deal instituted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

Curly's "FBI Loan" is a malapropism pertaining to an FHA insured loan (Federal Housing Administration).

Curly describes his taking the child's piggy bank as "only a lend-lease" referring to the Lend-Lease Law passed by Congress in 1941.

The idea of Curly swallowing Vitamin Z and hatching a colt generates from the use of synthetic vitamins as dietary supplements, which was both popular and experimental in the early 1940s.

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