I'm a Monkey's Uncle

I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Zion Myers
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Dee Green Virginia Hunter Nancy Saunders Joe Palma Cy Schindell Heine Conklin
Cinematography	George F. Kelley
Editing by	Edwin Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 7, 1948
Running time	15' 56"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Heavenly Daze
Followed by	Mummy's Dummies

I'm a Monkey's Uncle is the 110th 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.

Plot

The Stooges are cavemen living in the stone age. They must tend to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk, hunting fish, and gathering eggs. Such is life in the prehistoric times.

That afternoon, Moe has a date with his girlfriend, Aggie (Virginia Hunter). Shemp and Larry want to join, as Aggie has two sisters for the boys, Maggie (Nancy Saunders) and Baggie (Dee Green). When rival cavemen allege that the Stooges stole their women, a fight breaks out, with the trio catapulting rocks, mud and eggs at the cavemen.

Notes

• The caveman footage from I'm a Monkey's Uncle was later used in the 1955 film Stone Age Romeos.
• This is one of the few films in which Moe immitates his brother Curly. It happens during the scene when he is trying to hit the duck with the huge club, but ends up splashing water all over himself, which makes him get angry. As he is angry, Moe makes the same noise Curly does whenever he gets frustrated, mad, or crazy. The others films that Moe is seen making the same noises as Curly, are Who Done It?, and Malice in the Palace, due to certain scripts being written for Curly before his untimely illness.

External links

• I'm a Monkey's Uncle at the Internet Movie Database
• I'm a Monkey's Uncle at Allmovie