Half Shot Shooters
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| Directed by | Preston Black |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Stanley Blystone Vernon Dent Edward LeSaint Harry Semels Heinie Conklin |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Editing by | Charles Hochberg |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  April 30, 1936 |
| Running time | 18' 35" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Movie Maniacs |
| Followed by | Disorder in the Court |
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Half Shot Shooters is the 14th 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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[edit] Plot
The Stooges are discharged from the army after World War I, and they promptly administer some revenge to their cruel sergeant, Sgt. MacGillicuddy (Stanley Blystone). Years later, they are traveling the streets hungry, when they are tricked into signing up for the army again. Naturally, MacGillicuddy is their new superior.
The Stooges are then assigned to man a coast artillery gun site, and begin practicing their skills. They first hit a smokestack, then a house, next a bridge, and lastly, a battleship, which happens to be the admiral's flagship. The officers and Sgt. MacGillicuddy go to the site to investigate, and the Stooges point fingers at each other as to who is to blame for the hitting. Then the sergeant asks them to line up on one side and stay there for a photo shoot. The Stooges agree, and prepare to pose just as Sgt. MacGillicuddy swings the gun at them.
[edit] Quotes
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- Curly: "For two cents, I'll punch you right in the face!"
- Man (angrily, holding out two pennies): "Well, here's the two cents!"
- Curly (meekly): "Well, I raised my price."
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- Curly: "Hey, I think there's something screwy going on around here."
- Moe: "Every time you think, you weaken the nation."
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- Moe: "Boxcars wasn't good enough for you, was it?"
- Curly: "I don't know...I'm a stowaway."
- Moe: "Well, stow this away." *SLAP!*
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- Sgt. MacGillicuddy: "This is a test to see if your ears will stand the firing of the big guns."
- Moe: "That's a new one on me."
- Sgt. MacGillicuddy: "Yeah, I just thought of it."
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- Commanding officer: "Where were you born?"
- Curly: "He says your pants are torn!"
- Moe: "I ain't got any horn!"
- Larry: "No, not worn, corn!"
- Curly: "What?"
- Larry: "Corn!"
- Curly: "Oh, corns! I got two on both dogs! Could ya tell me where you keep yer corn blaster, shorty?"
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- Commanding officer: "Now, where were you born?"
- Curly: "Oh, born! Upstairs, in the front room!"
- Commanding officer: "Fine soldiers for the coast artillery wouldn't know a shell from a boat!"
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- Larry: "What?!"
- Moe: "He says ya smell like a goat!"
- Larry: "Oh yeah?! Thanks, the same to you!"
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- Commanding officer: "Were you born in this country?"
- Larry: "What?"
- Commanding officer: "Were you born in this country?!"
- Larry: "No, Milwaukee."
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- Commanding officer: "Would you fight for this great republic and..."
- Moe: "Republican? No, I'm a Democrat."
- Curly: "Not me! I'm a pedestrian!"
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- Capt. Burke: "Who fired those shots?"
- Moe, Larry, and Curly: "I did!"
- [Moe bops Larry and Curly.]
- Moe: "Let's get this straight. I did, and boy, was that a shot or was that a shot?"
- Capt. Burke: "Well, you hit the admiral's flagship!"
- Moe (to Larry): "Why did you hit the admiral's flagship?"
- [Moe slaps Larry.]
- Moe (to Curly): "Why'd you hit the admiral's flagship for?"
- [Moe slaps Curly.]
[edit] Note
- This is the first Stooges short to feature Vernon Dent, who appeared in more Stooge shorts than any other supporting actor.
- The title is a pun on Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) an RKO Radio Pictures movie with Wheeler & Woolsey.
- This is the last Stooges short in which the old Columbia Pictures "torch lady" appears.
[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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