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THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962), || THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS:
THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW (1960), || THE NEW 3 STOOGES: THE 3 MARKETEERS
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* THE MANY LOVES
(1960)OF DOBIE GILLIS: THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW  Here, in episode 36 from the first season of the series, Dobie and Maynard get into a quarrel with a disgruntled “fat” cop, played by Richard Reeves ( - who appeared in Westerns, gangster flix, and several episodes of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, including THE BOY WHO HATED SUPERMAN - ) over picking some flowers in the park, after which, Dobie goes to meet up with his date, Arabella Parmalee. Over Mr. Parmalee's objection's, Arabella's mother encourages their date to procede, and they leave - with Maynard in tow!  Richard Reeves
-perennial tough guy! Later, whilst " pounding the beat " , Officer Parmalee meets Dobie's father and threatens to cite (fine) his grocery store unless he forbids Dobie seeing Arabella! THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS dealt - somewhat in the tradition of the literary bildungsroman, of such types as CANDIDE, et c. - with the life and loves of a young dreamer, Dobie Gillis, played by DWAYNE HICKMAN, as he progressed from high school through to a stint in the forces, where he and Maynard sign up as army privates, and, thence, in the fourth and last season of the show, to college. The stories related Dobie's continual thoughts – thus his soliloquays to camera (bookending every episode), delivered in front of a statue of Rodin's THE THINKER - about the future; his running battle with his father over the prospect of acquiring work; his relationship with his "good buddy", slacker Maynard G. ( - "The 'G' stands for Walter"), Krebs - the first beatnik to be featured on a nation-wide US TV show, and, who, probably remains the most famous, if not most loveable beaknik in all of history; and Dobie's endless romantic heartaches, most of which center around Thalia Menniger, a beautiful, but greedy and self-centered young woman, who struggles to improve Dobie and find him the job that will enable him to make "oodles and oodles of money", though not for her (the last hope her family has) but for her family - a sixty-year-old father with a kidney condition, a mother who isn't getting any younger, a sister who married a loafer, and a brother who is becoming a public charge. The TV series followed the screen success of the 1953 MGM musical feature film, THE AFFAIRS OF DOBIE GILLIS (view trailer here) - which, although titled ... DOBIE GILLIS – Dobie (here played by Bobby Van) took second billing to DEBBIE REYNOLDS. The film's setting was a mid-western university, where freshman Dobie Gillis and his pal Charlie Trask (BOB FOSSE) court cute coeds Pansy Hammer (DEBBIE REYNOLDS) and Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick). Pansy's wealthy father (Hanley Stafford) can't stand Dobie and does everything in his power to keep them apart. Along the way, Dobie and Pansy manage to blow up the chemistry lab, while Dobie's officious English professor Pomfritt (the great HANS CONRIED) is misled into believing that the feckless Gillis is a literary genius. With Bobby Van, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, BOB FOSSE, and Barbara Ruick in the cast, THE AFFAIRS OF DOBIE GILLIS simply had to have a few musical numbers in its repertoire - and it does. The film was, in turn, based on the novel by Max Shulman. Dir: Rod Amateau. Wrs: Lee Karson, Joel Kane. Cast: DWAYNE HICKMAN as Dobie Gillis, BOB DENVER as Maynard G. Krebs, FRANK FAYLEN as Herbert T. Gillis, Florida Friebus as Winifred 'Winnie' Gillis. Guest Stars: Richard Reeves (above left), Jane Wald. 25 mins. RM * THE NEW
(1965)3 STOOGES: THE 3 MARKETEERS   The New Three Stooges was a syndicated colour TV series that ran from 1965-1966. The 156 cartoons with 41 live action sequences bookending them ( - packaged as 39 syndicated half-hour episodes, with each episode consisting of four 5 minute cartoons with live action wrap-around sequences. 41 live action wrap-arounds were filmed, and 40 were reused several times, each with different cartoons; the first wrap-around, SOLDIERS, was used only once - ), were produced by Cambria Studios, the famous West Hollywood animation production studio that we now so well know for its wide usage of the Syncro-Vox™ technique of animation developed by Edwin Gillette, a co-partner in the studio. All the animation was made under the supervision of Lee Orgel. Four cartoons were produced to correspond thematically with each of the forty one live-action Stooge opening and closing sequences, so that one live-action sequence could serve as a wraparound for four different cartoons. The voices of the cartoon Stooges were in fact made by real Stooges MOE HOWARD, LARRY FINE, AND JOE DERITA. SOLDIERS was produced, directed and written by Norman Maurer as a plot companion to the first (pilot) cartoon, THAT LITTLE OLD BOMBMAKER. Animation producer Dick Brown farmed animation of BOMBMAKER to Jay Ward Studios (ROCKY & BULLWINKLE), resulting in the only cartoon of the series to feature the voice talent of the great PAUL FREES. This episode deals with the live action Stooges as decorators in the wrap-around segment, DECORATORS, and as supermarket assistants in the cartoon segment - THE THREE MARKETEERS - number 90 in the series – where they create super-disaster. In DECORATORS (opening), the boys are hired as paperhangers by a woman (Margaret Kerry) who wants a top-notch job for her husband. Of course, they terribly botch the job, ultimately trapping Moe between a piece of wallpaper and the wall; (closing) the wife enters the "finished" room only to be mortified at the results, and proceeds to thrash the (now fleeing) boys with a roll of wallpaper! The three-minute, live-action wrap-arounds (originally in colour) were produced and directed by EDWARD BERNDS, a friend of the Stooges; supporting actors from the old two-reel movie shorts, EMIL SITKA and Harold Brauer, while Margaret Brown (wife of Cambria Productions' chief, Dick Brown) joined the boys in the wrap-around scenes. BERNDS and NORMAN MAURER also took director and producer roles on the Stooges 1960s feature films. Once the series sold, NORM MAURER hired veteran Stooges director BERNDS to write and direct 40 new wrap-arounds, produced by MAURER's Three Stooges film production company, Normandy Productions. Dick Brown's Cambria Productions (CLUTCH CARGO, SPACE ANGEL) took on animation production. Heritage Productions was the syndication distributor. Plans to animate such other comedians as THE MARX BROTHERS and Jack E. Leonard were, sadly, shelved. The release date for all 156 cartoons is considered fall in 1965, as that is the delivery date by syndicators to the stations. According to an advance trade ad by Heritage, the series was sold to 37 major markets in 30 days. Prod Co: Cambria Productions, Normandy III Productions. Prod: Dick Brown, Norman Maurer (Live Action). Dir: EDDIE BERNDS, Eddie Rehberg, DAVE DETIEGE. Anim Stud: Cambria Studios. Anim: Chic Otterstrom, Kay Wright. Live Action, Vocal Talent: LARRY FINE (Larry), MOE HOWARD (Moe), JOE DERITA (Curly Joe), Margaret Kerry. Ed: William J. Faris. Mus: Paul Horn. Prod Superv: Lee Orgel. Layouts: Dan Noonan, Sam Connell, Jacques Ruff. Backgrounds: Gloria Wood, Bill Butler. Stories and Storyboards: Jack Miller, Barbara Chain, Sam Cornell, JACK KINNEY, Art Diamond, Nick George, Warren Tufts, Pat Kearin, Cecil Beard, Homer Brightman, Lee Orgel, DAVE DETIEGE. Prod Managers: Fred Darley, Cliff Selkirk. Painting: Connie Crawley. Phot: Jerry Smith, Ed Gillette. Color by: Filmservice Laboratories. Distr: TV III. 7 mins. RM * BACK FROM (1943)THE FRONT:  BACK FROM THE FRONT is the 70th short subject starring the American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. (The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.) The Stooges join the war-effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (an undercover German Nazi officer), Lt. Dungen (!) (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber, a German freighter, and climb aboard. (The seasick gag was reused in DUNKED IN THE DEEP (1949), and its remake COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (1956). Schiklgruber is the surname Hitler's father carried for the first forty years of his life, until he took the name Hitler (Hiedler) from his stepfather. While Adolph Hitler himself never bore the surname, the British made use of it for propaganda purposes, since, even to Germans, the name is laughable.)  Now with fully grown beards, the Stooges come across Lt. Dungen again, who fails to recognize them.  Realizing they have stumbled into a nest of German sailors, they then disguise themselves as Hitler, Goering and Gobbels, eventually overtaking the crew and tossing them overboard. The ending is pure satire, with Moe telling the Nazis to use their heads and shoot their brains out - to which Stanley Blystone replies, "But mein führer, we're Nazis. We have no brains." Moe reprises his Adolf Hitler role from YOU NAZTY SPY! (1940) ( - the title seems to be a play on a saying that was popular in those days: “youuuuuuuuuuuu nas-ty man!” - ), and I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (1941) ( - a pastiche of the popular song-title of the time, I'LL NEVER CRY AGAIN. For you literate Splodge!-ers at home, you may view the episode's script: here! Al Thompson appears in a dual role - first, he appears as one of the German sailors, and again later as one of the German officers. Behind-the-scenes, silent, colour footage was discovered in early 2007, and premiered in The Stoogeum theater at the April 2007 Fan Club Meeting. An alternate camera angle for the Stooges' fighting the Nazi sailors, and off-camera clips of the boys, JULES WHITE, Bud Jamison and VERNON DENT were captured on private 16mm film. See THE THREE STOOGES JOURNAL, #122 (Summer 2007), and #123 (Fall 2007), for further details. PLUS! - Quickie Theatre returns, with a new segment "Trailer Trash": * Trailer: THE
RISE
(1970)AND RISE OF MICHAEL RIMMER  Oh gawd, we ran this film in it's entirety about, ooooh, five years back - when a single, known print of it could still be found in this country. (Sorry to report,) some time later, we were told that "it had been disposed of" (!) Even these days, we still receive inquiries from around the world as to where they can find a copy. Well, I am happy to report that it now does seem that the film has finally been released for purchase on DVD! But tonight, what we've got is the sixty second movie trailer. So, if you caught the whole thing at Splodge! last time, here's a little "quickie theatre" recap, just to whet your appetite again! followed by: *THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962)  Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe play themselves as stars of a TV show called THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK. After being evicted by their strict landlady, the boys take a room in a creepy old mansion owned by the eccentric Professor Danforth (Stooges regular EMIL SITKA), who is convinced that Martians are trying to steal his new invention. That night, after some scary moments, the Stooges find that the hideous "Martian" lurking in the house is really the butler, in disguise. This isn't the movie you're about to watch - these are scenes originally written as part of the pilot for an unsold TV show, actually called THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK. The original story ended with the boys unmasking the phony Martian, before making it to the TV studio, just in time to save their jobs. THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (original title THE MARTIANS AND THE THREE STOOGES) cleverly expands the story to feature-length by making the Martians genuine. MAURER had been trying to sell THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK pilot to the TV networks and to TV syndicators for the Saturday morning TV schedule. The only time-slots offered to MAURER were on Friday nights. He thought that time-slot inappropriate for the main audience for Stooges comedy, which was the childrens audience. Unable to gain what he thought was the appropriate time-slot for the proposed series, he revamped the format, and the TV show morphed into the Stooge's second 1960s feature film to be released by their own studio: THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT. Prior to the 1960s, The Three Stooges had appeared in other feature films, notably ROCKIN' IN THE ROCKIES (1945), although, in other features, such as TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM (1941), SWING PARADE OF 1946 (1946), THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA (1934), TURN BACK THE CLOCK (1933), FUGITIVE LOVERS (1934), MYRT & MARGE (1933), START CHEERING (1938), MY SISTER EILEEN (1942) (cameo), they were not always afforded top billing in the credits. THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT was extremely popular on theatrical release, and is probably the best of their horror / sci-fi crossovers, arguably superior to either HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL (1959), SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES (1961), THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES (1962) ( - 'tho, in it's defense, this one does contain Time Travel!), or THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE (1963). The Stooges made many personal appearances to promote the film. They appeared on stage at movie theatres, dressed in their white tuxedos (minus the bizarre white makeup).  THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT was also promoted with a unique type of tie-in merchandising. In the early '60s, long before Richard J. Anobile created his "Film Blow-Up" books - featuring scenes from the comedies of LAUREL & HARDY, W.C. FIELDS, THE MARX BROTHERS and BUSTER KEATON - MAURER made a deal with Gold Key Comics to create a THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT comic-book, which featured frame-by-frame blow-ups from the film. The comic also had dialogue from the film, to help tell the story. This is the only Three Stooges comic to use this unique concept. Sadly, it was never used again. MAURER is reported to have been a comic-book artist, himself, and was probably responsible for the design of the Martian terrorists in THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT. The animation process which he created for both THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK and THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT was called Artiscope - so I guess there was a little bit of “Professor Danforth” in old NORMAN MAURER himself! The music score was written by Paul Dunlap, who also wrote the music for I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957). Dunlap described working with The Stooges as "... absolutely delightful, really the most pleasant experience of my film-scoring career. They were very nice men, especially Moe Howard. They were great heroes in their time, they were as big as The Beatles. They were the exact opposite of what they were on screen, they were sweet and gentle. I don't think people realized in general that quite apart from being the burlesque ruffians they were on the screen, they weren't ruffians at all, especially Moe. He was the quietest, sweetest man, and a very considerate man. You know you don't always find that in the film business. Moe's hobby was horticulture, and he had a nice house in Brentwood, and he loved to go walking through the yard and tell me what each plant was, and where it came from. They gave you absolute carte blanche I remember asking Moe once, "what would you like the score to me like?" "Oh, I don't know," he would say. "You know exactly what's best. Do whatever you want." He had complete confidence. It was a pleasure working with him. Moe would come to the recording sessions, incidentally, just to hear the music, but he would also bring with him his own stuff, coconuts and funny little drums and things, and when we were finished with the orchestra he would then record those. He loved to furnish the sound effects, when they bopped one another on the head, you know that sound. He had a marvelous ear for those damn things. He would bring funny-shaped gourds and things to the recording." The film opens with a montage of newsreel clips of premieres of old Hollywood movies, and from the very beginning, with its animated credits, it's clear this is going to be a fun film. The narrator of the segment (Don Lamond) recalls the efforts of many of the entertainment industry's stars. The scene then shifts to The Three Stooges' apartment, as MOE and LARRY rehearse their lines for their local, kids TV show. CURLY-JOE is busy in the kitchen, cooking dinner, but his culinary efforts are caught by their mean landlady, who throws the boys out for violating her "no cooking in the rooms" rule ( - one which also used to haunt LAUREL and HARDY, as I recall.) The trio is forced to find another home, and, after looking for several hours, they finally acquire lodgings at "Hawk Hill Manor", the abode of eccentric scientist / inventor, Professor Danforth (EMIL SITKA).  The Professor welcomes the boys, since he needs help with his latest invention. The Professor has built a combination submarine, helicopter and tank, that he wants to sell to the military. Danforth fears that Martians will steal his secret weapon for an invasion of Earth, 'tho. O-oh! The boys don't believe the daffy scientist, and they just accept their landlord's stories as harmless fantasy. Unfortunately, Danforth's fears are all too real, for that night, the Professor's butler, Williams, is revealed to be a Martian spy, disguised as a human! The "butler" tries to scare The Stooges out of the house by wearing a rubber monster mask, rubber claws and a black cape. "Williams" ' scare tactics are soon foiled by CURLY-JOE, tho, as he clobbers the villain with the butt of the Professor's rifle. When the boys and their landlord confront the fiend, he pulls out a ray-gun and destroys CURLY-JOE's rifle. Spooked out of their wits, the trio run out into the night.  Egad! The Martians' arsenal included stock footage from EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956)! There's some durn' nice Ray Harryhausen flying saucers there! The Professor follows the Martian spy downstairs into the dungeon, where he sees the villain contacting Mars on a interplanetary communications device. The Martian leaders are hardly happy that their henchman has bungled his efforts to steal the Professor's weapon, let alone by his having been stopped by three bumbling Earth-men. The angry Martian leader tells “Williams” that he will be replaced by Zogg and Ogg. The spy asks to be given another chance to steal the secret weapon, but his leaders cut off all communication. In the meantime, The Stooges have reached the TV studio, and hurriedly prepare for their daily broadcast. The show is not doing well in the ratings, and the show's sponsor, G.G. Galveston ( - owner of the company that makes "Nyuk Nyuks" cereal!), and the station manager tell MOE, LARRY and CURLY-JOE that they had better create new and better TV cartoons, and new comedy skits within the next ten days, or their contracts wont be renewed! During this meeting, Professor Danforth enters the studio and tries to tell the Stooges about the "butler"'s plot with the Martians to conquer the Earth. MOE thinks that the old codger is talking crazy again, and tries to ignore him. The Professor then tells them that he has a machine which can help them create a better series of TV cartoons! Figuring that they have nothing to lose, The Stooges return to Hawk Hill Manor, where they met the Professor's lovely daughter, Carol (Carol Christensen). Heading down to the dungeon, the Professor tries to show the boys the interplanetary TV set that the butler was using to call Mars. Of course, the device has been removed, and "Williams" has been sent back to Mars by Zogg & Ogg, who, themselves, have hidden the communications set in another section of the basement. Unable to convince the trio of the looming danger, the old inventor shows the team his secret weapon, along with the TV camera and cartoon-producing machine, which can create animated films electronically. The machine can draw the characters, but can't animate them successfully yet. While Danforth is perfecting the device, the boys get themselves settled and help their landlord finish his secret weapon.  The Stooges are even more confused than usual. Is it a tank-copter, a heli-sub or a whatin-hel? They soon get a request from the U.S. Air Force to prepare the weapon, or, at least, a model of it, for a demonstration that will take place at the Air Force base in two day's time. This good news is delivered by Captain Andrews ( - Edson Stroll, in his second, and last film appearance with The Stooges). The boys try to give a demonstration to the Captain by turning on the water faucet in the kitchen in the next room, but the miniature version of the device heads for the bathroom upstairs, where it soon attacks poor CURLY-JOE - who is there trying to take a shower! After a bit of buzzing around upstairs, the model of the Professor's secret weapon flies out of the top floor window of the castle and enters the bathroom of a beautiful woman next door, whose bath is disrupted by the mechanical intruder. Despite these flaws, Andrews is nonetheless impressed with the demonstration, and he suggests that the Professor and his men get the actual machine ready for a more conclusive test.  This news does not go unnoticed by the two alien spies, who quickly contact their leaders and report this potential obstacle to their invasion plans.  Seeing that they can't conquer the Earth, the Martian Leader ( - another “Stooge” regular, Gene Roth - ), angrily orders the planet to be destroyed. He sends a powerful ray gun to his two spies, and the leader orders them to attach the gun to the Professor's weapon and use it to disintegrate the planet. As is typical of many Three Stooges films, THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT also contains topical humour. There is even a Cold War subtext, in the form of the Martian leader - played by Nestor Paiva ( - better known to monster movie fans as the captain of the riverboat, Rita, in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) - the blustery white-haired Martian chairman was a parody of Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, who once declared to the United States, "We will Bury you." Coupled with Billy Wilder's ONE, TWO, THREE (1961), … IN ORBIT gives us a rare insight into the brittle satire that grew up around one of the most intense periods in Cold War relations. On Mars, after a barrage of American television images appear on his malfunctioning viewscreen - including annoying commercials and scenes of teenagers doing The Twist - the leader begins to bang on the desk with his shoe, mimicking Khrushchev's famous United Nations tantrum. The next day, The Stooges head for the airfield to test the Professor's machine. As usual, they create havoc, when they are unable to control it's functions or, especially, stop it. So, after The Stooges have wrecked the WAC's quarters - and the mess hall - the General orders the boys and the weapon off of his base, and, furthermore, has Captain Andrews busted. The Stooges head for the Desert, where their machine soon runs out of fuel. Needing to both refuel, as well as replace the carburetor, they stop near a make-shift “tower”, where they try to put another "carburetor" into the machine's housing. A sandstorm occurs, which makes this simple task difficult. While trying to find the misplaced carburetor, CURLY-JOE inadvertently removes an atomic bomb that is in the base of the tower. The bomb has been readied for a test by The U.S. Navy, and it can be ignited by exposure to moisture! Unaware of the nature of their dangerous spare part, the boys install the device in the vehicle and drive off at top speed. Professor Danforth and his daughter are dispirited by the failure of the test, but the Professor decides that he will make it up to the boys, and he finally completes his cartoon-producing machine.  When they return to Hawk Hill Manor, The Stooges discover that the Professor's cartoon machine is ready. Quickly putting on special white face make-up and white tuxedos, the team dance to a rock and roll tune, as the Professor films the scene with his device. After the cartoons and comedy skits have been put on film, the Professor heads for the TV studio to show the producers. The Stooges head off into the next room to wash up and change their clothes, but they are soon confronted by Zogg & Ogg, who have placed their large ray gun on the secret weapon and are readying to destroy the city.  With all Mankind in danger, The Stooges climb onto the ship - hanging on for dear life, as the two alien spies take them on a wild ride over the city of Los Angeles. Watching the spies stealing the device, and the Stooges helplessly riding the machine, Captain Andrews and Carol call the General to warn him of the situation. The angry superior ignores the call, until Zogg fires a blast at the airbase and nearly destroys the General's office! Now heeding Andrews' warning, the General makes several frantic phone calls to the Army, the Navy and his fighter pilots to stop the invasion. Seeing that they are threatened by the military, the two villains head for the ocean - meanwhile, MOE has finally discovered that the professor's machine machine is carrying the atomic bomb! Quickly, MOE grabs a small ray-gun from one of the alien terrorists and, using it as a blow torch, cuts away at the ship's conning tower. Zogg And Ogg again try to blast The Stooges with their large ray gun, but they miss, only to send the shot back to Martian headquarters. The conning tower finally gives way, and the two spies are both dispatched by "The Bomb". The villainous pair, Ogg and Zogg, were pretty frightening characters, especially for a 1960s juvenile audience, and, following in the tradition of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948), they were played fairly straight, heightening the fun by making the danger to the lovable comics seem more real, so they kinda deserved their terminal fate. Their visual design basis was clearly a mixture of the Frankenstein monster, in Dracula attire. The film has other creative touches too. Each of the Martians had a distinct look making them recognizable individuals. And in an uncharacteristically realistic move for this juvenile type of fare, the Martians do not speak English at all. Their alien dialogue was accompanied by subtitles translating theirs into our language. In one “Crosby and Hope”-ish movie moment, the Stooges learn the invaders' plans by reading the subtitles on the screen below them. And, as an in-joke, actors George N. Neise and Rayford Barnes - who played Ogg and Zogg, appeared in one scene in human form as a pair of airline pilots who can't believe their eyes when they see the Stooges' strange craft fly past them! Later, Galveston and Lansing are watching the new "Three Stooges" cartoon along with Professor Danforth. They are impressed with the new pilot, but advise The Stooges that they had better take the Professor's machine down to the studio, quick-smart, to get their contracts renewed, otherwise they'll lose their show!  Hanging onto the helicopter-section of the Professor's machine, The Stooges get wildly flown all over downtown Hollywood. The ship finally crashes - right into the TV studio, of course, and, with moments to spare, the boys' TV show is renewed - for the next ten years!  So, the Earth is saved and Professor Danforth is finally recognized as a brilliant inventor that he really is. The Martian Leader and his Council contact Earth one more time - via the TV studio's damaged monitor - where they're seen dancing... The Twist! "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em!" exclaims the leader, this time in English - followed by the subtitle translation into Martian! THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT is not likely to make anyone forget BUD ABBOTT AND LOU COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948),or BOB HOPE's GHOST BREAKERS (1940), or other more classic horror-comedy films. But it IS a heck of a lot of fun for those monster movie and Stooges fans who are lucky enough to see it! Prod Co: Normandy Productions. Prod: NORMAN MAURER. Dir: EDWARD BERNDS. Scn: NORMAN MAURER. Scr: Elwood Ullman. Mus: Paul Dunlap. Phot: William P. Whitley. Cast: MOE HOWARD (MOE), LARRY FINE (LARRY), JOE DERITA (CURLY-JOE), Carol Christensen (Carol Danforth), Edson Stroll (Captain Tom Andrews), EMIL SITKA (Professor Danforth), George N. Neise (Ogg/Airline Pilot), Rayford Barnes (Zogg/Airline Co-Pilot), Norman Leavitt (Williams). 90 mins. RM Minor programme changes may occur due to unforseen circumstances. Feature runs last; shorts order may vary from listing. * Acknowledging ACMI Inc. & National Film and Sound Archive ;) *  ************ ********* ********* ********* ADMISSION IS RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS FOR THIS PROGRAMME THIS IS A FILM SOCIETY SCREENING OPEN TO MEMBERS
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