Three Little Pigskins is the fourth 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.
Starting out the short film as bums dressed as football players on the street asking pedestrians for money, the Stooges are soon mistaken for real college football players known as "The Three Horsemen", a parody of the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame fame. They ...
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Three Little Pigskins is the fourth 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.
Starting out the short film as bums dressed as football players on the street asking pedestrians for money, the Stooges are soon mistaken for real college football players known as "The Three Horsemen", a parody of the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame fame. They are immediately recruited by the local professional team, whose own star players had just been injured. Their first game (staged at Hollywood's Gilmore Stadium) turns into a fiasco, especially since the Stooges know absolutely nothing about the sport. Realizing they have been swindled, the managers turn their revolvers on the Stooges, hitting them on the buttocks as they attempt to escape.
Moe Howard once called Three Little Pigskins "a humdinger of bangs and bruises," as it marked the first time the Stooges flatly refused to perform a stunt....
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