A Gem of a Jam
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This clever Three Stooges comedy opens, like many of their films do, with a sign: "Drs. Heart-Burns and Belcher." But that's not referring to the Stooges -- they're merely the night janitors, and not very good ones. They have the usual round of mishaps, the funniest being when Curly gets his head stuck in a fish bowl. Even after Larry and Moe free him from the globe, he's not quite right, so they stick him behind the fluoroscope and discover he has swallowed a fish. They retrieve it by sticking a fishing line -- with bait -- down his throat. Their work is further interrupted by a trio of crooks. While escaping the police, one of them was shot in the shoulder, and they insist that the Stooges -- who they have mistaken for doctors -remove the slug. The wounded crook insists on being anesthetized, which confuses the trio until they're told, "That means he wants to be knocked out!" "Ohhh---" they reply knowingly, and they knock him cold with a hammer. But the wounded crook slides off the gurney, out the window and into a waiting police car. To fool the other two gun men (who apparently aren't much smarter than the Stooges), Moe and Larry stick Curly under the sheet. The police finally show up looking for the crooks and both the gunmen and Stooges go running. While the crooks are nabbed, the Stooges wind up in a strange storage area with a bunch of mannequins, a gigantic, spooky jack-in-the-box, a frightened night watchman and a vat of plaster. Curly falls into the plaster and his ghostly white visage scares everyone he encounters until the short comes to a rather abrupt end. ~ Janiss Garza, RoviCast
Stanley Blystone; Larry Fine - Larry; Curly Howard - Curly; Moe Howard - Moe; Bud JamisonCredit
Del Lord - Director| A Geisha (1953 Film), A Gathering of Old Men (1987 Film) | |
| A Generation (1954 Film), A Generation Apart (1984 Film) |
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A Gem of a Jam
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| Directed by | Del Lord |
| Produced by | Hugh McCollum |
| Written by | Monte Collins Elwood Ullman |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Dudley Dickerson Al Hill Fred Kelsey John Tyrrell Frank O'Connor Al Thompson |
| Cinematography | John Stumar |
| Editing by | Paul Borofsky |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 30, 1943 |
| Running time | 16' 27" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Gem of a Jam is the 76th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
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The Stooges are janitors in a doctor's office working the night shift. The usual antics occur, first with Moe getting an electrical shock down his pants, leading to a cossack dance. Then, Curly gets his head wedged inside a fish bowl, containing a live fish. Though Moe and Larry eventually slide the bowl off, Curly starts to feel the swallowed fish tickling his insides. Moe manages to fish the aquatic critter out of Curly.
Outside, a crook is shot in the arm while trying to make a getaway after a robbery. The crooks bring their hurt leader (John Tyrrell) up to the Stooges, thinking the doctor's office is open for business. The boys play doctor and promptly anesthetize the wounded crook with a rubber mallet. Then, the wounded crook slides off the gurney and out the window while the Stooges' back are turned. As luck would have it, the crook lands right into a police car waiting below at street level. The other crooks flee when they see the Stooges mangle the situation, only to be captured by the policemen.
The trio, meanwhile, take cover in a rather spooky storage area, replete with a huge jack-in-the-box, and a scared night watchman (Dudley Dickerson). Curly gets so spooked that he stumbles into a trough filled with plaster, making him virtually immobile. As a consequence, the poor, ghostly-looking Stooge ends up scaring all involved.
Notes
- The Stooges released more short subjects in 1943 than any other year, A Gem of a Jam being the tenth entry.[1]
- The gag of Curly stepping out of a wax trough appearing as a ghost first appeared in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy film The Live Ghost.[1]
- When the night watchman backs into the mannequin, he shouts, "I'm losing my mind!" This line, however, is often silenced on television broadcasts.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. pp. 239. ISBN 0-9711868-0-4.
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