Hoi Polloi (1935)
A professor plays Pygmalion to three bumbling garbagemen and tries to turn them into gentlemen.
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Director:
Del LordWriters:
Felix Adler (story), Felix Adler (screenplay)All Cast & Crew
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Loosely based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play :Pygmalion" (also known as "My Fair Lady"), which in 1935 had not had an official film adaptation. The play has been frequently filmed, beginning with Pygmalion (1938) just a few years later.
Quotes
Moe:
Now then gentlemen. Remember your etiquette.
Larry:
What's that for?
Curly:
We didn't do nothin'!
Moe:
That's in case you do when I'm not around.
Goofs
Moe was wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette when Larry and Curly were dumping tin cans onto the rubbish truck and they fall on him instead. In the following shot Moe is not wearing his hat.
Alternate Versions
A 2004 computer-colorized version was created, but not given a normal "Three Stooges set" release. As of now, it is only available as an extra feature on the DVD of the 2004 film Breakin' All the Rules (2004).
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Genres
Comedy | ShortDetails
Release Date:
29 August 1935Language
English
