Dizzy Pilots is the 74th short subject by Columbia Pictures starring the Three Stooges.
Plot[]
The Stooges are a trio of aviators known as the Wrong Brothers (Parody of the famous late Wright Brothers) in the "Republic of Cannabeer, P.U." who receive an army draft notice. The notice says the brothers have been granted a 30-day deferment of duty on account of their claims that the aircraft they are inventing, the “Buzzard”, will revolutionize flying. Curly proudly announces that their aircraft has put them among other "great inventors" like Robert Fulton, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Don Ameche (who is not an actual inventor). The boys get to work, but a series of mishaps cause them to get sidetracked; Moe twice gets knocked into a tub of quick-drying melted rubber. The first time it happens, Larry and Curly try to get the rubber off Moe by expanding the rubber with hydrogen, turning him into a human balloon. Unfortunately, Moe floats to the top of the aircraft hangar and into the sky, and Larry and Curly take aim with a shotgun and blast him to safety, resulting in Moe falling down in his Long Johns into a nearby well. Later, just as the boys are ready to test the Buzzard, they realize the aircraft is too wide to move out of the hangar. This problem is solved when the Stooges saw a larger opening in the hangar. But then they have another problem trying to start the propeller. Moe pushes the propeller to get it to start, but the propeller swings back at him and carries him for numerous revolutions before he is thrown off - where he lands in the same tub of rubber cement from before. They eventually begin a test flight of the aircraft for a pair of aircraft company officials from the Sky Aircraft Company, but things begin to go awry. Curly accidentally breaks the rudder cable, Moe orders him to throw out the clutch, Curly is unable to find it, so he throws out the gear shift lever instead. Moe attempts to repair the rudder cable but fails and the aircraft turns upside down and the three fall right back into the same well as before, dousing the aircraft officials with water as they splash into the well's bottom. As expected, the Stooges are drafted into the army, where they run afoul with their drill sergeant (Richard Fiske), disrupting marching and weapons handling drills. Eventually, the three of them have had enough. They knock out the drill instructor by hitting him with their guns, allowing them to escape.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard as Moe Wrong
- Larry Fine as Larry Wrong
- Curly Howard as Curly Wrong
Gallery[]
Notes[]
- The army segment at the end of the film was actually stock footage from the short film Boobs in Arms.
- The gag of the Stooges trying to get a large plane from too small a hanger was used in the cartoon "The Scooby Doo Movies "The Ghost of the Red Baron'
- The short was filmed in somewhere of airport hangar despite to be filmed inside of Columbia Pictures' stage.
Goofs[]
- When Moe tells Curly to "get me out of this" after Curly accidentally turned the vice's lever which crushed Moe's hand, Curly is turning the lever the same way that he used to tighten the vice, but this means that he is only tightening it more and Moe's hand should still be stuck. When he and Moe turn the lever the same tightening direction, Moe's hand is suddenly free despite turning the lever in the wrong direction the entire time and the vice would only be tightened more, meaning his hand should not be free and would only get severed.
- In the scene where Moe is covered in liquid rubber and is floating to the roof, two thin wires are seen pulling him up.
- When Moe is stuck on the roof and says Curly and Larry to "Get me down", his voice is slightly deeper than usual.
- In the same scene where Moe says to Curly and Larry to "Get me down", his lips aren't moving.
Quotes[]
As Moe looks for a vice:
- Moe (to Curly): "Where's your vice?"
- Curly: "Vice? I have no vice. I'm as pure as the driven snow!"
- Moe: "Yeah, but you drifted!" (hits Curly on the head)
When Moe floats up to the top of the hanger, Larry and Curly try to bring him down: Curly picks up a rifle:
- Larry: "Don't you know better than to use a rifle? You might Miss! Here use a shotgun instead!"
After the three finishing "The Buzzard", they decided to test the plane out:
- Larry: "Hey, what do we know about flying?"
- Moe: "Neither did the Wright brothers, but they flew! Anything the Wright brother can do, the Wrong brothers can do! Right?"
- Larry: "Right!"
- Curly: "Wrong.. Brothers!"
When Moe order the two stooges to "saw the garage", Curly mistaken the word saw (as seeing) instead of saw (Cutting job)
- Moe: "Hey, don't saw the wings. You saw the garage."
- Curly: "I see the garage, but I don't saw the garage. You are speaking incorrectly. You are moidering the King's English! Et cetera. See? Saw? See? Saw?"