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'Sappy Bull Fighters' is a 1959 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe Besser in his final starring role). It is the 190th and final entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians between 1934 and 1959.

Plot



The Stooges are vaudeville entertainers who trek to Mexico to perform their burlesque bullfight, with Joe as the brave matador, and Moe and Larry dressed in a bull costume. Unfortunately, their gig is canceled when they arrive. According to the trio, the manager fired them after they refused to do 10 additional shows for free. With no money to return home, the Stooges are stranded. Feeling bad for them, attractive seorita Greta (Greta Thyssen) gets the boys a gig at the local bull ring. However, when she leaves Greta mistakenly takes the trio's suitcase instead of hers. When they go retrieve it, however, Joe becomes attracted to Greta and begins to kiss her, infuriating her insanely jealous husband Jos (George J. Lewis).

The next day, the Stooges perform their act successfully at a bullring Jos recognizes the trio. In an act of revenge he pays the bullring attendant (Joe Palma) to release a live bull into the ring. Moe and Larry flee, but Joe is unaware of the switch. He eventually head-butts the wild animal, and is paraded out of the ring to the rousing cheers of "Ol, Americano!"

Cast



Credited

* Moe Howard as Moe

* Larry Fine as Larry

* Joe Besser as Joe

* Greta Thyssen as Greta

* George J. Lewis as Jose

Uncredited

* Joe Palma as bullring attendant and spectator

* Harold Breen as spectator and stagehand

* Cy Schindell and Eddie Laughton as bullring attendants (both stock footage)

* Manuel Granada as bullfight announcer (stock footage)

Production notes



'Sappy Bull Fighters' is a reworking of 1942's 'What's the Matador?', a parody of the 1941 film 'Blood and Sand'.Solomon, Jon. (2002) 'The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion', p. 209; Comedy III Productions, Inc., Minimal recycled footage from the original was used, including long shots and voice tracks of Curly Howard riding the bull. The film begins with an inside joke: an advertising poster promotes the Stooges, and the bottom of the poster lists another performer, one "Julio Blanco" (the Spanish approximation of producer-director Jules White).

The remake was filmed over two days in mid-1957 (July 1516, 1957), and marks Joe Besser's screen farewell as a Stooge: it was the last Stooge short released to theaters. The films Besser made with the Stooges were released out of sequence. The last short in which Besser worked was actually 'Flying Saucer Daffy', filmed in December 1957; after this last film was finished, Besser left the act to tend to his ailing wife. Besser would be succeeded by fellow Columbia two-reel comedian Joe DeRita (as "Curly Joe") in the trio's subsequent projects.

By the time 'Sappy Bull Fighters' was released in June 1959, the Stooges were experiencing a rebirth in popularity, due to the release of their shorts on television. In essence, the theatrical release of 'Sappy Bull Fighters' actually competed with the enormously successful television revival.

At 15:12 'Sappy Bull Fighters' is the shortest film the team made at Columbia Pictures. The longest is 'A Pain in the Pullman' (1936) at 19:46.
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