Three Little Pigskins (1934)

Director:

Ray McCarey

Writers:

Felix Adler (story)
Griffin Jay (story)

Release Date:

8 December 1934 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

Watch 'em carry gloom offside - and goal you with glee!

Plot:

The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Photographer | Slapstick | American Football | Pig Latin

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Curly Howard	...	Curley (as Curley)
Lucille Ball	...	Daisy Simms
Gertie Green	...	Lulu Banks
Phyllis Crane	...	Molly Gray
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alex Hirschfield	...	Young Moe (scenes deleted)
Bud Jamison	...	Bit Part (scenes deleted)
Joe Levine	...	Young Larry (scenes deleted)
Billy Wolfstone	...	Young Curley (scenes deleted)

Runtime:

20 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Filming Locations:

6315-6317 Yucca Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Curly Howard broke a leg after riding down the dumbwaiter.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: Near the beginning of the film, when we first see Moe, he falls in next to a passing pedestrian to ask for "a dime for a hamburger". The shadow of the boom mic following them can be seen on the sidewalk.

Quotes:

Lulu Banks: Girls! I got em, I got em!
Molly Gray: What, the dinner?
Lulu Banks: No, no, the three horsemen... Come in guys, and meet the girls!
Larry: [to Daisy] Honey, will you marry me?
Moe: [to Lulu] Oh toots, I'm telling you you've more than won me!
Curley: Low man again.
[sees Molly]
Curley: Woo, woo, woo!

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Lady with the Torch (1999)

Some Very Funny Moments

This is a Three Stooges short comedy that starts and ends a little slowly, but in between there are some hilarious moments. It starts when the three are pan-handling on a college campus, and get mistaken for the school's three star football players. They are then hired by a group of gangsters to play for a professional team, with predictable results. The funniest parts are in the middle of the film, when the Stooges are in the apartment where the gangsters and their girls (which include a very young Lucille Ball) hang out. "Three Little Pigskins" may not be one of the Stooges' best, but it's still pretty good.