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1942 American short film by Del Lord

Even as IOU

Directed by	Del Lord
Written by	Felix Adler
Produced by	Del Lord Hugh McCollum
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Stanley Blystone Ruth Skinner Sharyn Moffett Vernon Dent Bud Jamison
Cinematography	L. William O'Connell
Edited by	Paul Borofsky
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	September 18, 1942 (1942-09-18) (U.S.)
Running time	15:37
Country	United States
Language	English

Even as IOU is a 1942 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 65th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are fraudulent individuals engaged in the illicit sale of counterfeit racing forms, exploit unsuspecting patrons by peddling expired documents. This duplicitous endeavor culminates in a confrontation with a disgruntled customer, precipitating their flight from law enforcement.

Amidst their flight, a fortuitous encounter with a destitute mother and her daughter prompts a benevolent gesture, as they utilize funds from the child's piggy bank to alleviate their financial distress.

Buoyed by the success of their altruistic deed, the Stooges subsequently find themselves embroiled in a sequence of events revolving around a horse race. Following an unexpected triumph in the race, their newfound prosperity is short-lived as they fall victim to the machinations of two swindlers, who deceive them into purchasing a retired racehorse named Seabasket.

Undeterred by their misfortune, the Stooges assume responsibility for the care of the aged horse, with Curly inadvertently ingesting a Vitamin Z pill intended for the equine. Miraculously, this mishap results in Curly's ostensible birthing of a new Equidae entity, subsequently heralded as a promising racehorse.

Cast

Credited

Moe Howard as Moe
Larry Fine as Larry
Curly Howard as Curly
Ruth Skinner as Mrs. Blake
Stanley Blystone as Joe, ventriloquist

Uncredited

Vernon Dent as Man in car
Bud Jamison as Cop
Jerry Frank as Man posing as mannequin
Sharyn Moffett as Mrs. Blake's daughter
Heinie Conklin as Turnstile guard
Jack Gardner as Bud, ventriloquist's pal
Billy Bletcher as Ventriloquist's voice
Suzanne Ridgeway as Woman at racetrack
Lew Davis as Race announcer voice
Bert Young as Betting window clerk
Wheaton Chambers as Dr. O. B. Stretrick
Joe Garcio as Vet assistant

Production notes

Filming of Even as IOU was completed April 18–22, 1942.

There are several references to The New Deal instituted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

Curly's "FBI Loan" is ignorance pertaining to an FHA insured loan (Federal Housing Administration).
Curly describes his taking the child's piggy bank as "only a lend-lease" referring to the Lend-Lease Law passed by Congress in 1941.

The idea of Curly swallowing Vitamin Z and hatching a colt generates from the use of synthetic vitamins as dietary supplements, which was both popular and experimental in the early 1940s.

Moe requesting an operator patch him through to "Ripley, yeah, believe it or not." This is one of the earliest mentions of Ripley's in popular media.

The "ma-ma" doll gag had recently been used by Laurel and Hardy in 1940's Saps at Sea. It would be used again in the Stooges' 1951 short Scrambled Brains.

References

^ "Even As IOU (1942)". threestooges.net/. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
Pauley, Jim (2012). The Three Stooges Hollywood Filming Locations. Solana Beach, California: Santa Monica Press, LLC. ISBN 9781595800701.
^ Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. p. 215. ISBN 0971186804.

External links

Even as IOU at IMDb
Even as IOU at AllMovie

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1935	Horses' Collars Restless Knights Pop Goes the Easel Uncivil Warriors Pardon My Scotch Hoi Polloi Three Little Beers
1936	Ants in the Pantry Movie Maniacs Half Shot Shooters Disorder in the Court A Pain in the Pullman False Alarms Whoops, I'm an Indian! Slippery Silks
1937	Grips, Grunts and Groans Dizzy Doctors 3 Dumb Clucks Back to the Woods Goofs and Saddles Cash and Carry Playing the Ponies The Sitter Downers
1938	Termites of 1938 Wee Wee Monsieur Tassels in the Air Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb Violent Is the Word for Curly Three Missing Links Mutts to You Flat Foot Stooges
1939	Three Little Sew and Sews We Want Our Mummy A Ducking They Did Go Yes, We Have No Bonanza Saved by the Belle Calling All Curs Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise Three Sappy People
1940	You Nazty Spy! Rockin' thru the Rockies A Plumbing We Will Go Nutty but Nice How High Is Up? From Nurse to Worse No Census, No Feeling Cookoo Cavaliers Boobs in Arms
1941	So Long, Mr. Chumps Dutiful But Dumb All the World's a Stooge I'll Never Heil Again An Ache in Every Stake In the Sweet Pie and Pie Some More of Samoa
1942	Loco Boy Makes Good Cactus Makes Perfect What's the Matador? Matri-Phony Three Smart Saps Even as IOU Sock-a-Bye Baby
1943	They Stooge to Conga Dizzy Detectives Spook Louder Back From the Front Three Little Twirps Higher Than a Kite I Can Hardly Wait Dizzy Pilots Phony Express A Gem of a Jam
1944	Crash Goes the Hash Busy Buddies The Yoke's on Me Idle Roomers Gents Without Cents No Dough Boys
1945	Three Pests in a Mess Booby Dupes Idiots Deluxe If a Body Meets a Body Micro-Phonies
1946	Beer Barrel Polecats A Bird in the Head Uncivil War Birds The Three Troubledoers Monkey Businessmen Three Loan Wolves G.I. Wanna Home Rhythm and Weep Three Little Pirates
1947	Half-Wits Holiday
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