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The trio own a [[furniture]] shop ("Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe: [[Antique]]s Made While U Waite") who are staining some furniture they have delivered to Miss Scudder ([[Jean Willes]]), an attractive curly-haired brunette who owns a boarding house. While attending to their duties (and nearly destroying the furniture in the process), several new boarders at Miss Scudder's place are actually a trio of crooks who have just robbed a [[jewelry]] store. The Stooges are held at gunpoint while Miss Scudder is tied up and gagged in her kitchen while the crooks ransack the house to steal several valuable [[heirloom]]s in her possession. The Stooges and Miss Scudder work together and unravel the crooks' plot.
The trio own a [[furniture]] shop ("Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe: [[Antique]]s Made While U Waite") who are staining some furniture they have delivered to Miss Scudder ([[Jean Willes]]), an attractive curly-haired brunette who owns a boarding house. While attending to their duties (and nearly destroying the furniture in the process), several new boarders at Miss Scudder's place are actually a trio of crooks who have just robbed a [[jewelry]] store. The Stooges are held at gunpoint while Miss Scudder is tied up and gagged in her kitchen while the crooks ransack the house to steal several valuable [[heirloom]]s in her possession. The Stooges and Miss Scudder work together and unravel the crooks' plot.


==Violence==
==Ed Bernds and violence==
[[Image:Snitchytimey.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Shemp takes it like a man in ''A Snitch in Time'']]
[[Image:Snitchytimey.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Shemp takes it like a man in ''A Snitch in Time'']]
''A Snitch In Time'' is a particularly violent film for the Stooges. The topper remains 1943's ''[[They Stooge to Conga]]'', but ''A Snitch In Time'' runs a close second. Interestingly, this film was directed by [[Edward Bernds]], who always maintained that the Stooges did not have to be violent for the sake of being violent. Columbia short subject head and director [[Jules White]], on the other hand, was notorious for the excessive abuse in his shorts.
''A Snitch Time'' violent film the . ''[[They Stooge to Conga]]'' In a . Interestingly, was directed by [[Edward Bernds]], who always maintained that the not to be the . and ,


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 19:48, 30 April 2012

A Snitch in Time
Directed byEdward Bernds
Written byElwood Ullman
Produced byHugh McCollum
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Jean Willes
Henry Kulky
John L. Cason
John Merton
Edited byHenry DeMond
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
December 7, 1950 (U.S.)
Running time
16' 28"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Snitch in Time is the 128th 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.

Plot

The trio own a furniture shop ("Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe: Antiques Made While U Waite") who are staining some furniture they have delivered to Miss Scudder (Jean Willes), an attractive curly-haired brunette who owns a boarding house. While attending to their duties (and nearly destroying the furniture in the process), several new boarders at Miss Scudder's place are actually a trio of crooks who have just robbed a jewelry store. The Stooges are held at gunpoint while Miss Scudder is tied up and gagged in her kitchen while the crooks ransack the house to steal several valuable heirlooms in her possession. The Stooges and Miss Scudder work together and unravel the crooks' plot.

Violence

File:Snitchytimey.jpg
Shemp takes it like a man in A Snitch in Time

A Snitch in Time has been consistently ranked as the most violent Stooge film of the Shemp era.[1] Unlike the Curly-era equivalent—They Stooge to Conga—most of the violence is directed at Moe. In its opening four minutes, Moe manages to get his nose and rear jammed into the blade of a whirling circular saw, as well as getting glue in his eye and stuck on his hands. Interestingly, though Columbia short subject head/director Jules White was known for the usage of excessive violence in his films, A Snitch in Time was directed by Edward Bernds, who always maintained that the violence was not to be excessive in the films he directed.[2]

Notes

The title A Snitch in Time parodies the aphorism "a stitch in time saves nine."[3]

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Scrapbook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. p. 376. ISBN 0971186804. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion, p. 377; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0-9711868-0-4
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