You Nazty Spy!

original title:
You Nazty Spy!
country / year of production:
USA / 1940
original length:
18 min. , black/white
premiere:
USA: 19 January 1940
genre:
Short film
based on:
director:
Jules White
film script:
Felix Adler , Clyde Bruckman
producer:
Jules White
cinematographer:
Harry Davis
editor:
Art Seid
composer:
cast (role):
Curly Howard (Curly Gallstone) , Larry Fine (Larry Pebble) , Moe Howard (Moe Hailstone) , Don Beddoe (Mr. Amscray) , Richard Fiske (Mr. Ixnay) , Curly Howard , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Don Beddoe , Richard Fiske
more:
plot synopsis:
Moronica - a fictional country similar to germany. Three munitions manufacturers decide to overthrow the king. Since they do not desire to have all the official obligations to themselves, they get themselves strawmen: the stree stooges, working as wallpaper hangers, are chosen to be the new leaders of the dictatorship.
The king is overthrown and Moe becomes the dictator, yet the kings daughter, Mati Hering, appears, possibly as a spy. At the same time there is a delegation who the stooges insult, so that they have to flee - straight into a lions den...
keywords:
coup , espionage , fascism , short / one-reeler
war:
fictious war
literature:
Lenburg, Jeff; Maurer, Joan Howard; Lenburg, Greg (1994). The Three Stooges scrapbook. New York: Citadel Press.
remarks:
The first american film to spoof Adolf Hitler. Moe was the first american to portray Hitler.
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