"In the Spring three young men's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of - you know." Thus begins "The Sitter Downers," a slightly unusual Three Stooges comedy directed by Del Lord. Oh, it's a good film, but oftentimes in their films the boys find themselves in some bizarre plot situations. In "The Sitter Downers" the Stooges intend to get married, and until their future father-in-law (James C. Morton) consents, the boys stage a sit-down strike in his very house, eventually winning the nation's sympathy and even garnering a ton of fan mail (!). Once this issue has been resolved, the party of six is faced with the challenge of having a house to build.
Highlights: Curly falls from a tree and lands on his wife Dorabell (Marcia Healy, sister of the Stooges' mentor Ted Healy), knocking her out; when he tries to revive her by splashing a bucket of water on her face, he doesn't realize there's a piece of hardened cement in the bucket! To prevent Moe and Larry from repeatedly running into some freshly-laid cement, Curly jumps into the cement himself and then gets knocked out with a keg of nails. The Stooges' "car" is rather interesting. And at the end, Florabell (June Gittelson) removes one post that causes the entire house, which was weird-looking anyway, to collapse.
What's the moral of "The Sitter Downers"? Never trust the Stooges to build a house!
Highlights: Curly falls from a tree and lands on his wife Dorabell (Marcia Healy, sister of the Stooges' mentor Ted Healy), knocking her out; when he tries to revive her by splashing a bucket of water on her face, he doesn't realize there's a piece of hardened cement in the bucket! To prevent Moe and Larry from repeatedly running into some freshly-laid cement, Curly jumps into the cement himself and then gets knocked out with a keg of nails. The Stooges' "car" is rather interesting. And at the end, Florabell (June Gittelson) removes one post that causes the entire house, which was weird-looking anyway, to collapse.
What's the moral of "The Sitter Downers"? Never trust the Stooges to build a house!