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You Nazty Spy!
Directed byJules White
Produced byJules White
Written byFelix Adler
Clyde Bruckman
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Richard Fiske
Adrian Booth
Dick Curtis
Don Beddoe
Florine Dickson
Little Billy
John Tyrell
Bert Young
Joe Murphy
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date(s)January 19, 1940
Running time17'59"
LanguageEnglish
Preceded byThree Sappy People (1939)
Followed byRockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)
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You Nazty Spy! (1940) is an 18-minute short subject by the Three Stooges that satirized Nazi Germany. Shot in only seven days, it was the 44th Three Stooges comedy. It was followed in 1941 by the sequel I'll Never Heil Again.

You Nazty Spy! is significant because it satirized the Nazis and helped publicize the Nazi threat in a period when America was still neutral about World War II, and isolationist sentiment was prevalent among the public. During this period, isolationist senators such as Burton Wheeler and Gerald Nye objected to Hollywood films on grounds that they were anti-Nazi propaganda vehicles designed to mobilize the American public for war. According to the Internet Movie Database, You Nazty Spy! was the first Hollywood film to spoof Hitler. It was released nine months before the more famous Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator.

The film and its sequel are set in the fictional country of Moronica. Moe Howard's character Moe Hailstone represented Hitler, Larry Fine's character based on Joseph Goebbels and Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Curly Howard played a character based on Hermann Göring. You Nazty Spy! was reportedly Moe Howard's and Larry Fine's favorite Three Stooges short. Another notable feature of the short was the fact that it implied that business interests were behind the Nazi rise to power. This is probably reflective of a common belief amongst some Americans about the Nazis at the time.

The Hays code discouraged or prohibited many types of political and satirical messages in films, requiring that the history and prominent people of other countries must be portrayed "fairly"; but short subjects may have been subject to less attention than feature films.

Trivia

  • Larry Fine injured his leg shortly before filming, and can be seen with a limp throughout the short, although Joseph Goebbels, who Fine was mocking, did in fact walk with a limp due to a club foot.
  • The exclamation "Beblach!" used several times in the film is a Yiddish word meaning "Beans!" (The Stooges, all of the Jewish faith, occasionally worked a word or phrase of Yiddish into their dialogue.)
  • This film was colorized in 2004 for DVD.

Further reading

  • Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard , (Citadel Press, 1977).
  • The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
  • The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994).
  • The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
  • One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).


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