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In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.
Moe Howard
- Moe Hailstone
- (as Moe)
Larry Fine
- Larry Pebble
- (as Larry)
Curly Howard
- Curly Gallstone
- (as Curly)
Don Beddoe
- Mr. Amscray
- (uncredited)
Chuck Callahan
- Storm Trooper
- (uncredited)
Dick Curtis
- Mr. Ohnay
- (uncredited)
Florine Dickson
- Miss Pfiffernuss
- (uncredited)
Charles Dorety
- Storm Trooper
- (uncredited)
Richard Fiske
- Mr. Ixnay
- (uncredited)
Ned Glass
- Lead Storm Trooper
- (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
- Mattie Herring
- (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton
- Vance Rippemup
- (uncredited)
Jackie the Lion
- Lion
- (uncredited)
Joe Murphy
- Peasant
- (uncredited)
John Rand
- Grey-Haired Axis Minister
- (uncredited)
'Little Billy' Rhodes
- Bellboy
- (uncredited)
Al Thompson
- Axis Minister
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe first Hollywood film to spoof Adolf Hitler, released nine months before Charles Chaplin's more famous The Great Dictator (1940).
- GoofsWhen The Three Stooges enter the lion's den, Moe is wearing a black arm band with a question mark which he wasn't wearing in any previous scenes.
- Quotes
Moe Hailstone: We must throw off the yoke of monarchy, and make our country safe for hypocrisy!
- Crazy creditsAny resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle.
- Alternate versionsAs of September, 2004, has been released on DVD in both original black-and-white as well as with a new colorization process.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Three Stooges Follies (1974)
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More satire than merely slapping.
This one shows the Stooges, the writers, and the studio all in top form. The writing is very clever, in fact rather Marxist, that is Marx Brothers type. Moe as a "Hitler type" dictator and Curly as a "mussolini", they just can't miss. Curly even does a "Bob Hope" when he turns to the camera and in reference to some dialog between Moe and Larry says, "They're nuts!" In comparison to Chaplin's overzealous take on 'ol Shicklegruber, this is much funnier. Cahplin at this point, or more accurately from about the mid 1920's onward, tends to get too much pathos involved with otherwise great comedy. His comedies and especially his feature films always seemed to be attempting to send the world a message or moral. Much like the Our Gang shorts produced during their floundering MGM period. The Stooges version is played strictly for laughs and well it should be. If you're going to play someone as rotten as Hitler, than make a total ass out of him without any appearances of "having seen the light" like Chaplin does at the end of his "Great Dictator". The Stooges are all fired up in this one and I'll bet Chaplin was too, considering the Stooge's version was released before Chaplin's. "Hail, Hail, Hailstone! Wahoo!"
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- maxcellus46
- Dec 10, 2005
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- Oh, You Nazty Spy!
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- Runtime18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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