The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

Infobox Film
name = The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze


caption =
director = Norman Maurer
producer = Norman Maurer
writer = Norman Maurer
Jules Verne (novel)
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Joe DeRita
Jay Sheffield
Joan Freeman
Walter Burke
Peter Forster
Maurice Dallimore
Richard Devon
Anthony Eustrel
Iau Kea
Robert Kino
Phil Arnold
Emil Sitka
music = Paul Dunlap
cinematography = Irving Lippman
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US August 21, 1963
runtime = 93' 01"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "The Three Stooges in Orbit"
followed_by = "The Outlaws Is Coming"
amg_id = 1:113612
imdb_id = 0057580

"The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze" was the fifth feature film made by the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita. Directed by Howard's son-in-law Norman Maurer, "The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze" was loosely based on the Jules Verne classic, "Around the World in Eighty Days".

Plot

Phileas Fogg III, great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.

With him in this plot is his weaselly Cockney co-conspirator Filch (Walter Burke). This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the Stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. On the way, they also: Try to steal a cream pie from the galley of a Turkey-bound British cargo ship (and poke the cook in his fat behind with a gaff in the process); watch an elaborate Indian dance at a maharajah's palace, where blind-as-a-bat Curly Joe also regales the maharajah and the viceroy with knife throwing--until his disguise falls off; get captured in China by the Chinese Army, and survive Communist brainwashing in Shanghai with their interrogators turning into Chinese Stooge clones (Moe tells the Chinese general, "No brainee to washee!"). The disgusted Chinese set them adrift in a small boat; use Curly Joe's music-provoked strength to cadge food, clothes, and a trip to San Francisco from the manager of the monstrous sumo Itchy Kitchy after a demonstration in a park in Tokyo; stow away in a moving van, supposedly headed for New York. Of course, they are caught, and arrested in Canada by the British inspector (the Stooges and Amelia fake British accents so the inspector will arrest them too).

Back in London, they cross paths again with the two conspirators, again disguised as police—and armed. Of course, the Stooges win out, and, as with the original Phileas Fogg, his descendant miscalculated by one day and still has a chance. Curly Joe gets behind the wheel of the Bobby paddy wagon and speeds across London, and young Fogg wins the bet—crashing into the Reformer's Club with two seconds to spare.

Trivia

*The gag of Curly-Joe becoming combative when he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel" was recycled from one of the earliest (1934) Stooges shorts, "Punch Drunks".
*The "mahahara" routine featured in this film is a classic, recycled from an earlier 1946 Stooge short, "Three Little Pirates".

Primary Cast

*Moe Howard: Moe
*Larry Fine: Larry
*Joe DeRita: Curly-Joe
*Jay Sheffield: Phileas Fogg, III
*Joan Freeman: Amelia Carter
*Walter Burke: Lory Filch
*Peter Forster: Vickers Cavendish/"Stuart"
*Maurice Dallimore: Inspector J. B. Crotchet
*Richard Devon: Maharajah
*Anthony Eustrel: Kandu
*Iau Kea: Itchi Kitchi
*Robert Kino: Charlie Okuma
*Phil Arnold: Referee
*Emil Sitka: Butler at Reformer's Club
*Laurie Main

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).


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