Three Stooges + gorilla suit + 'love candy' = chaos you can't unsee.
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
Practical Effects
Curly's gorilla suit: peak 1930s costume design.
Acting
Curly's commitment to simian romance is unhinged.
Writing
Love candy plot device: elegantly stupid.
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the Stooges' 15th short for Columbia and one of their earliest experiments with elaborate costumed chaos.
The 'African safari' genre was peak Hollywood escapism in 1938; the Stooges accidentally parodied it before parody was cool.
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