Some More of Samoa
Encyclopedia
Some More of Samoa is the 59th short subject
starring American slapstick
comedy team the Three Stooges
. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures
between 1934
and 1959
.
Back at the house, Mrs. Winthrop (Symona Boniface
) wonders aloud why the doctors she called has not shown up yet. As she does, sirens are heard, and she heads to the front door. The Stooges have just arrived and start unpacking their tools, a bag of which is thrown into Moe’s face. Larry and Curly leave the back of their ambulance with a large timber-felling saw and Moe starts chasing them angrily. They run away from him, accidentally catching the saw on a small tree and running into each other. The saw is let go and swings back, hitting Moe in the face. Larry and Curly make a mad dash to the house with Moe in pursuit. Mrs. Winthrop lets them in, believing them to be the real doctors she’d called. She leads them to Mr. Winthrop’s room, but is perturbed when she sees the Stooges unpacking saws, hedge trimmers, and other strange instruments. The Stooges enter the room and inspect the tree, with Moe finding dry rot on a limb and saying that they have to operate. As he says that, the nurse enters, misinterpreting his words and believing them to want to operate on Mr. Winthrop instead of the tree. She objects, and Larry sends her out of the room. She tells the wife what she had heard and the two of them sit outside the door, listening in. Moe tells Curly to cut off the tree limb he’d inspected, and Mr. Winthrop demands them to stop. Larry holds him down to prevent him from stopping them and Curly starts sawing the limb off. Mr. Winthrop calls for the nurse and cries out in pain, causing the nurse and wife to think they are cutting off one of his legs. After Curly cuts the limb off he asks if he should cut off “the other one”, causing the wife to faint. Mr. Winthrop springs to his feet, chastising the Stooges for “ruining” his tree and stating that he had waited fifteen years for it to bear fruit. Moe asks where its “mate” is, and Mr. Winthrop says that it has no mate, that it is the only one in the country. Moe then tells him that he will not get fruit from the tree unless it has a mate, and that giving it one will make it recover. The old man commissions the Stooges to find one such tree, found on the isle of Rhum Boogie, and that he will pay them $10,000 for their efforts. The Stooges then leave for the island.
On the island later on, Moe and Larry steer their sinking boat to the shore and dock it. Curly is nowhere to be seen after going on a “date with a mermaid”, but they find his explorer’s hat on the beach. Larry finds a set of footprints and he and Moe follow them, coming across a savage chieftain named Kingfisher. He projects his spear at the two Stooges, who run away deep into the jungle, but end up being taken hostage by several tribesmen. Moe and Larry are then carried to their village, where Kingfisher calls for their king. Instead of the real king, however, Curly comes out with two tribeswomen in tow. Moe and Larry demand to know what’s going on, and Curly tells them that he had won the crown in a dice game against the king with loaded dice. The king then storms out and confronts Curly, crushing his dice and blowing the powdered remains into his face. Before anything else could happen, Moe tells the king that they’re only on the island to find a Puckerless Persimmon tree. The king then states that they would get the tree if one of them marries his sister, a rather homely and unattractive woman who has the hots for Curly. He refuses her advances and the Stooges are then tied up to be cooked for the tribe’s supper. As one tribesman tests Curly for various dishes (“Short rib…pork chop…”), Curly kicks him into a boiling cauldron, and he and the other Stooges make their escape. As they do, Curly stops in front of the king’s hut, claiming that the Persimmon tree is in there. He enters to grab it but runs afoul with a three-armed Kabuki mask that appears to be alive. Curly hits it with a large stick, grabs the tree, and runs off into the jungle. Moe taps his shoulder from behind and Curly, thinking Moe’s a tribesman, tries to run away but runs into a tree, causing a few coconuts to fall on his head. Screams are heard and the Stooges continue their escape, but Curly trips and loses the tree. As he unsuccessfully searches for it, an alligator strolls up, lays down, and opens its mouth. Curly looks into the alligator’s mouth and spots the tree, but the mouth closes harshly before he can grab it. After a few different exchanges wherein Curly attempts to intimidate the gator, Moe and Larry run up to him. He explains the situation and Moe gets an idea; he and Larry would tickle its stomach, causing its mouth to open and Curly can reach in and grab the tree. Not trusting the alligator completely, Curly grabs a branch and sticks it into the gator’s mouth, causing it to close, breaking it off. Angered, Moe takes off his belt and uses it to pull the alligator’s mouth open. Larry puts his foot on the bottom jaw, holding it down as Curly reaches in and pulls the tree out. As he does, Moe lets the belt go and the upper jaw closes down on the end of Larry’s shoe, biting it off. But just then, the tribesmen catch up to the Stooges and they run off to the boat on the beach. Moe starts paddling it away as Larry and Curly bail the encroaching water out as spears are thrown at them, but the boat sinks too quickly for them to escape properly.
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
starring American slapstick
Slapstick
Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.- Origins :The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the 'slap stick' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte...
comedy team the Three Stooges
Three Stooges
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical farce and extreme slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Moe, Larry, and Curly" and "Moe,...
. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
between 1934
1934 in film
-Events:*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade...
and 1959
1959 in film
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....
.
Plot
In a nice, upper-scale house, old Mr. Winthrop has suffered a nervous breakdown and is left wheelchair-bound when he discovers that his gardener’s lax attempts at caring for his Puckerless Persimmon tree, the only one in the country, has caused it to start dying. His wife hires a nurse to care for him, but he, time and again, demands she care for the tree first and foremost. Before firing his gardener he demands he call the Elite Tree Surgeons, the “biggest grafters in town”, and to have them come to his house at once. Meanwhile, in their office, the Stooges are washing their hands and preparing for a check-up on a skinny tree. They look it over and hop back and forth until Moe is inspecting it. He begins the check-up, asking for a few of the Stooges’ more nonsensical tools (Loobosac, Hoosikah, and Poshkoonyacus), and to end it he asks for some cotton. Larry hands it to Curly, who doesn’t seem to notice it’s in his hand until Moe screams for it, resulting in Curly throwing it in his face. The Stooges trade places again and Curly puts a stethoscope to the tree, claiming that he “doesn’t like the sound of his bark”, barking at Moe to bring the point home. He places the stethoscope to the soil at the base of the tree, hearing something, and digs into it. Moe asks what it is, and Curly responds by pulling out a pocket watch and claiming it’s “two o’clock!” Moe responds by pulling the end of the stethoscope and letting it go, smacking Curly in the face with it. Curly then remembers to give the tree a transfusion of something he “picked up to make big trees out of little saps!” He injects the tree with a formula labeled as “Vitamin PDQ” and, a second or so later, the tree grows higher than it is ever been and begins to produce fruit (“raspberrinis!”, according to Curly, before one falls on his head). Suddenly, the phone rings and Moe answers it; it is the gardener, asking the Stooges to come to Mr. Winthrop’s house. Moe hangs up the phone, gleefully declaring that they have “A PATIENT!”, and the Stooges set about packing their medical bags with tools. Curly, in his excited haze, pulls the phone off the wall and packs it, “in case we get a call while we’re gone!” The phone rings and Curly answers it, unable to hear who is on the other line and puts his head into the bag to do so. Moe responds to this by closing the bag on Curly’s head for a few seconds. Once Curly pulls his head out Moe smacks him in the head, causing him to fall backward into the Vitamin PDQ syringe, inadvertently giving himself a transfusion. Much like the tree earlier, Curly grows several feet higher than usual. Moe gets a ladder and climbs to Curly’s eye level, mallet in hand, and starts hitting Curly in the head with it, causing him to shrink back down. The Stooges then leave the office for the house.Back at the house, Mrs. Winthrop (Symona Boniface
Symona Boniface
Symona Boniface was an American film actress. She appeared in 120 films between 1925 and 1956.-Career:...
) wonders aloud why the doctors she called has not shown up yet. As she does, sirens are heard, and she heads to the front door. The Stooges have just arrived and start unpacking their tools, a bag of which is thrown into Moe’s face. Larry and Curly leave the back of their ambulance with a large timber-felling saw and Moe starts chasing them angrily. They run away from him, accidentally catching the saw on a small tree and running into each other. The saw is let go and swings back, hitting Moe in the face. Larry and Curly make a mad dash to the house with Moe in pursuit. Mrs. Winthrop lets them in, believing them to be the real doctors she’d called. She leads them to Mr. Winthrop’s room, but is perturbed when she sees the Stooges unpacking saws, hedge trimmers, and other strange instruments. The Stooges enter the room and inspect the tree, with Moe finding dry rot on a limb and saying that they have to operate. As he says that, the nurse enters, misinterpreting his words and believing them to want to operate on Mr. Winthrop instead of the tree. She objects, and Larry sends her out of the room. She tells the wife what she had heard and the two of them sit outside the door, listening in. Moe tells Curly to cut off the tree limb he’d inspected, and Mr. Winthrop demands them to stop. Larry holds him down to prevent him from stopping them and Curly starts sawing the limb off. Mr. Winthrop calls for the nurse and cries out in pain, causing the nurse and wife to think they are cutting off one of his legs. After Curly cuts the limb off he asks if he should cut off “the other one”, causing the wife to faint. Mr. Winthrop springs to his feet, chastising the Stooges for “ruining” his tree and stating that he had waited fifteen years for it to bear fruit. Moe asks where its “mate” is, and Mr. Winthrop says that it has no mate, that it is the only one in the country. Moe then tells him that he will not get fruit from the tree unless it has a mate, and that giving it one will make it recover. The old man commissions the Stooges to find one such tree, found on the isle of Rhum Boogie, and that he will pay them $10,000 for their efforts. The Stooges then leave for the island.
On the island later on, Moe and Larry steer their sinking boat to the shore and dock it. Curly is nowhere to be seen after going on a “date with a mermaid”, but they find his explorer’s hat on the beach. Larry finds a set of footprints and he and Moe follow them, coming across a savage chieftain named Kingfisher. He projects his spear at the two Stooges, who run away deep into the jungle, but end up being taken hostage by several tribesmen. Moe and Larry are then carried to their village, where Kingfisher calls for their king. Instead of the real king, however, Curly comes out with two tribeswomen in tow. Moe and Larry demand to know what’s going on, and Curly tells them that he had won the crown in a dice game against the king with loaded dice. The king then storms out and confronts Curly, crushing his dice and blowing the powdered remains into his face. Before anything else could happen, Moe tells the king that they’re only on the island to find a Puckerless Persimmon tree. The king then states that they would get the tree if one of them marries his sister, a rather homely and unattractive woman who has the hots for Curly. He refuses her advances and the Stooges are then tied up to be cooked for the tribe’s supper. As one tribesman tests Curly for various dishes (“Short rib…pork chop…”), Curly kicks him into a boiling cauldron, and he and the other Stooges make their escape. As they do, Curly stops in front of the king’s hut, claiming that the Persimmon tree is in there. He enters to grab it but runs afoul with a three-armed Kabuki mask that appears to be alive. Curly hits it with a large stick, grabs the tree, and runs off into the jungle. Moe taps his shoulder from behind and Curly, thinking Moe’s a tribesman, tries to run away but runs into a tree, causing a few coconuts to fall on his head. Screams are heard and the Stooges continue their escape, but Curly trips and loses the tree. As he unsuccessfully searches for it, an alligator strolls up, lays down, and opens its mouth. Curly looks into the alligator’s mouth and spots the tree, but the mouth closes harshly before he can grab it. After a few different exchanges wherein Curly attempts to intimidate the gator, Moe and Larry run up to him. He explains the situation and Moe gets an idea; he and Larry would tickle its stomach, causing its mouth to open and Curly can reach in and grab the tree. Not trusting the alligator completely, Curly grabs a branch and sticks it into the gator’s mouth, causing it to close, breaking it off. Angered, Moe takes off his belt and uses it to pull the alligator’s mouth open. Larry puts his foot on the bottom jaw, holding it down as Curly reaches in and pulls the tree out. As he does, Moe lets the belt go and the upper jaw closes down on the end of Larry’s shoe, biting it off. But just then, the tribesmen catch up to the Stooges and they run off to the boat on the beach. Moe starts paddling it away as Larry and Curly bail the encroaching water out as spears are thrown at them, but the boat sinks too quickly for them to escape properly.