Saturday, July 9, 2016

The Champs Step Out (1951)

I've always been fascinated by the non-Stooge films cranked out at the Columbia Short Subjects division. Scriptwriter Elwood Ullman and Edwards Bernds collaborated frequently not just on comedy shorts, but in B-level sci-fi films in the 1950s. Bernds was an unsung master of comic action and exterior location shooting. All of their collaborations are interesting.

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  1. The lady slipping poison to the gentleman, the gentleman noticing and trying to play switcheroo, turns up in a few Stooges shorts as well. Didn't a lady try to slip Shemp a mickey? Had him running in circles on the floor...

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  2. Nice re-use of Stooges shtick, with the harder-edged Jean Willes replacing Christine McIntyre.

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