A Bird in the Head (1946) Online
The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly (for obvious reasons) as the perfect donor. The stooges manage to foil the madman with the help of the Gorilla who befriends Curly.
Complete credited cast: | |||
Curly Howard | - | Curly (as Curly) | |
Larry Fine | - | Larry (as Larry) | |
Moe Howard | - | Moe (as Moe) | |
Vernon Dent | - | Prof. Panzer | |
Robert B. Williams | - | Mr. Beedle (as Robert Williams) | |
Frank Lackteen | - | Nikko |
This short happened to be filming on April 12, 1945. When news of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt reached the set, filming stopped for the day.
Moe calls the Gorilla "Ingagy." INGAGY was the title of a low budget horror film about a monster gorilla.
Longtime Stooge sound man Edward Bernds' makes his debut as a director. He later said that directing Curly was really difficult due to his health problems and Moe had to coach him line by line. Despite being released in February 1946, this short was filmed first before Micro-Phonies (1945)' (1945) and The Three Troubledoers (1946) (1946) because Bernds was able to convince studio head Harry Cohn to push back the releases for the three shorts. Micro-Phonies (1945)' (1945) was the best of the three Curly shorts because of his bright performance.
The animation of the cuckoo clock inside Curly Howard's head was done by Tex Avery.
Columbia production reel #4043.
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