Dutiful But Dumb

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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
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Editing by	Art Seid
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	March 21, 1941
Running time	16' 47"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	So Long Mr. Chumps
Followed by	All the World's a Stooge
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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.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quotes 3 Notes 4 References 5 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are 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 defiant oyster in his stew.

[edit] Quotes

• • Larry: "Hey, I can't find the negative!"
    
  • Moe: "How about the positive?"
    
  • Curly: "I'm positive about the negative, but I'm a little negative about the positive."
    
  • Moe: "Oh, negative eh?"
    
  • Curly: "No, I'm positive, the negative's in the developer."
    
  • Moe: "Your brains needs developing!"

[edit] Notes

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

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3] (Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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