Even as IOU | |
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Release Date |
September 18, 1942 |
Directed by |
Del Lord |
Written by |
Felix Adler |
Produced by |
Del Lord |
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Followed by |
Even as IOU is the 65th 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.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard
- Larry Fine
- Curly Howard
- Ruth Skinner
- Stanley Blystone
- Billy Bletcher
- Wheaton Chambers
- Heinie Conklin
- Lew Davis
- Vernon Dent
- Jerry Frank
- Joe Garcio
- Jack Gardner
- Bud Jamison
- Sharyn Moffett
- Suzanne Ridgway
- Bert Young
Plot[]
The Stooges help a destitute mother and her daughter by utilizing the money from the child's piggy bank, and ultimately winning a horse race. Riding high on their win, the boys come across two swindlers who trick them into buying retired race horse, Seabasket (a play on Seabiscuit). Broke again, the Stooges start taking care of the old horse, with Curly managing to accidentally swallowing Vitamin Z pill meant for the horse. However, the error allows Curly to give birth to a colt, which they crown as another winning race horse.
Notes[]
- Filming of Even as IOU was completed from April 18 to April 22, 1942.
- There are several references to The New Deal instituted by President Franklin Roosevelt:
- Curly's "FBI Loan" is ignorance pertaining to an FHA insured loan (Federal Housing Administration).
- Curly describes his taking the child's piggy bank as "only a lend-lease" referring to the Lend-Lease Law passed by Congress in 1941.
- This episode is actually Bert Young's final appearance he appeared in with the Three Stooges. In the episode called Malice In The Palace (1949), he appeared in a recycled stock footage as a palace sentry that was used from the previous physical episode called Wee Wee Monsieur (1938).
- This episode was also the last appearance Billy Bletcher appeared with the stooges.
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