{"id":17389,"date":"2025-03-24T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:43:52","slug":"stooges-and-barbarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17389","title":{"rendered":"Stooges and Barbarians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rainer, a Vicious Dog in Skull Valley<\/em> (2023, Bertrand Mandico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWe Barbarians<\/em> (2023, Bertrand Mandico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are backstage meta-Conan<\/a><\/em> spinoffs, the first one cycling through playwright trance-purgatory, the second a series of character monologues, always ending in hell and death.<\/p>\n

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\nHealthy, Wealthy and Dumb<\/em> (1938, Del Lord)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curly is entering slogan\/jingle contests like it’s Christmas in July<\/a>, and he wins for “coffin nail cigarettes.” Three hot girls in their same hotel plan to marry them for the money, but alas, everybody is lying and poor.<\/p>\n

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\nViolent Is the Word for Curly<\/em> (1938, Charley Chase)<\/strong><\/p>\n

They work at a gas station and dance around a car saying “super service!” while destroying the vehicle and its posh occupants. Then after they are mistaken for those three automobile-owning visiting professors, there is a musical number, which had me briefly enraged until I gave in to the gleeful idiocy. The weird title is a play on the now-forgotten oscar-nominated drama Valiant Is the Word for Carrie<\/em> about a Southern prostitute moving north.<\/p>\n

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\nThree Missing Links<\/em> (1938, Jules White)<\/strong><\/p>\n

They go to “Africa” and tangle with a gorilla and (another<\/a>) lion… okay, that’s enough of these for now.<\/p>\n

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