Dutiful But Dumb

Dutiful But Dumb
Dutiful but Dumb
Directed by Del Lord
Produced by Hugh McCollum
Del Lord
Written by Elwood Ullman
Starring Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Bud Jamison
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
Chester Conklin
Marjorie Deanne
Stanley Brown
Lew Davis
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline
Editing by Art Seid
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
(Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Release date(s) March 21, 1941(U.S.)
Running time 16' 47"
Country United States
Language English

Dutiful but Dumb is the 54th 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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Plot

The Stooges are "Click, Clack and Cluck", paparazzi-like photographers working for Whack Magazine ("If it's a good picture, it's out of Whack!") who continue to grate at their weary boss (Vernon Dent). To get them out of his hair, he sends them to Vulgaria for their next job, knowing full well that taking pictures in Vulgaria is against the law, leading to execution. The inept trio are caught once they set foot on Vulgarian soil. As the firing squad is setting up, Curly requests one last smoke, leading to him pulling out a cigar the length of a hero sandwich. The wait puts everyone to sleep, and enables the boys to escape. As they try to avoid their captors, they end up in a local cafe, in which Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew. When the oyster works Curly's last nerve he pulls out his gun and fires at it repeatedly. This gets the attention of the guards who promptly capture the Stooges and carry them off, upside down, on the bayonets of their guns.

Curly dares to take a swig of some powerful "spirit".

Notes

The title is a play on "beautiful but dumb."[1]

An adaptation of the oyster soup scene is featured in the The Three Stooges video game, where players control Curly who attempts to rescue as many crackers as possible from the oysters. [2]

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