Dizzy Pilots

Dizzy Pilots
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Directed by	Jules White
Written by	Clyde Bruckman
Produced by	Jules White
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Richard Fiske Harry Semels Al Thompson
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by	Charles Hochberg
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	September 24, 1943 (1943-09-24)
Running time	16' 45"
Country	United States
Language	English

Dizzy Pilots is the 74th 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.

Plot

Moe, Larry, and Curly are the Wrong brothers (a parody of the Wright brothers), a trio of aviators who must invent a revolutionary airplane for the military in order to avoid the draft. They have just 30 days to prove that their new plane "The Buzzard" can revolutionize flying. In the process of preparing "The Buzzard", Moe twice gets knocked into a tub of rubber cement. The first time it happens, Larry and Curly try to get the rubber off Moe by expanding the rubber with hydrogen. Unfortunately for the trio, Moe floats to the top of the airplane hangar and into the sky, and Larry and Curly take aim with a shotgun and blast him to safety.

Later, just as the boys are ready to test "The Buzzard," they realize the plane is too wide to move out of the hangar. This problem is solved when the Stooges saw a larger opening in the airplane's hangar. They encounter two additional setbacks: their test flight fails, and they are drafted into the army, where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant (Richard Fiske).

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The Stooges push drill sergeant Richard Fiske (far left) over the limit in Dizzy Pilots. This segment was recycled from the 1940 film Boobs in Arms.

Notes

• The army segment is stock footage from 1940's Boobs in Arms.
• When Moe becomes a balloon, two wires that make him "float" are easily seen.
• The gag of a plane too large to come out of a Hanger was reused in a Cartoon version of the Three Stooges and Scooby-do "The ghost of the Red Baron"

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).

External links

• Dizzy Pilots at IMDb
• Dizzy Pilots at AllMovie