🔎 "You Nazty Spy!" The Three Stooges, 1940 - The Stooges Mocked Hitler Before Chaplin

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🎭 You Nazty Spy! is a 1940 comedy film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, & Curly Howard).. Upon seizing power, the Stooges – under the guise of Hailstone, Gallstone, and Pebble – attempt to govern Moronika. However, their incompetence and absurdity quickly unravel their authority. A subplot emerges with the arrival of Mattie Herring, who is suspected of espionage by the Stooges..

You Nazty Spy! satirized the Nazis and the Third Reich and helped publicize the Nazi threat in a period when the U.S. 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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Nazty_Spy!

The Three Stooges War Effort. Learn how Larry, Moe and Curly came to be on Hitler's enemies list. WMUR-TV (6 mins, Jan. 2, 2018).

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1. Totally understandable.

https://www.thejewishnews.com/lookingback/mike-smith-column/looking-back-the-three-stooges/article_049138ff-1f94-5952-924e-68acacf45f04.html

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2. Yes! The Stooges religion is also briefly mentioned in the 2nd video, 4 mins. Love this

movie and all of their great comedy work. I didn't know Curly passed when relatively young.

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4. Curly had a stroke and actually appeared in a Stooges film with Moe, Larry and Shemp just before he died.

Here's the clip.

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5. Here's the complete "You Natzy Spy."

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9. THANK YOU!

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7. Thanks, what a shame.

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3. Big Stooges fan since childhood and I love when Moe parodies Hitler.

I wish he was around today to do it again.

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6. The Stooges' other Nazi parody: "I'll Never Heil Again."

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8. Luv them all, and esp Moe's Hitler, awesome. Thank for posting.