Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)

Interesting facts

Stop! Look! and Laugh! is a 1960 feature-length Three Stooges compilation film featuring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in scenes from 11 movie short subjects of 1937–1947. Additional footage, filmed especially for this production, features ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, and animal act The Marquis Chimps.

Production notes

The project was supervised by the Stooges' former producer-director, Jules White. White is credited as the new feature's director, but he was not involved in the newly staged scenes: "I didn't direct anything, it was all leftovers. I worked on the thing for over a month.

Officer Joe Bolton, a television host associated with New York City Stooges television programming on WPIX-TV during the early 1970s, makes a cameo appearance as a customer within a cafe scene. This cameo serves as a nod to Bolton's established presence within the Stooges television domain.

Stop! Look! and Laugh! is careful to give screen credit to the source films' original producers, directors, writers, photographers, and film editors. Columbia staff editor Jerome Thoms, who had worked on seven Stooge shorts himself in the early 1940s, assembled Stop! Look! and Laugh!

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