The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Practical Effects
Gloriously fake plane that barely holds together on screen.
Acting
Curly at peak chaotic energy, Moe's abuse perfectly timed.
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Fiske's posthumous appearance via 1940 stock footage creates accidental elegy—he died fighting in France months after release.
The 'Wrong Brothers' gag predates Mel Brooks' similar 'Wrong Way' by decades.
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