Product Details

• Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka
• Directors: Edward Bernds
• Writers: Elwood Ullman
• Producers: Hugh McCollum
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: January 28, 1997
• Run Time: 16 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630157463X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,703 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy it! 4 1/2 stars for three of the better Shemp episodes., May 2, 1999

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David E. Haupt (Cedar Rapids, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 3 Stooges: Fuelin Around [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I would give this tape 5 stars, but then there wouldn't be any difference between these very funny Shemp episodes and the extremely fine ones, the classics, most of which had Curly.

The best on this tape, in my opinion, is "Hula-la-la" (a near classic), where three dance instructors are hired by a Hollywood Studio and sent to a South Sea Island to teach the natives to dance. (The natives just happen to be cannibals.)

In "Fuelin' Around" Larry is mistaken for a brilliant professor. Foreign spies try to get his secret formula for rocket fuel. The real professor and the spies are about as smart as the stooges themselves.

"Hot Scots" is a great skit (also nearing classic proportions), has some good jokes at the expense of the Scottish, and a good Scotland Yard spoof. McMoe, McLarry and McShemp get hired as "yard men" and end up as sleuths in a haunted Scottish castle full of McSurprises.

This one is definitely worth buying.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sappy Stooges at less than their best., May 21, 1999

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This review is from: 3 Stooges: Fuelin Around [VHS] (VHS Tape)

THE HOT SCOTS; FUELIN' AROUND; and HULA-LA-LA are the three films packaged. Not top Stooges, but enough of their incomparable schtick comes through to make it worth buying.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HULA-LA-LIN' AROUND, July 5, 2001

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Stooge (Naperville, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3 Stooges: Fuelin Around [VHS] (VHS Tape)

THE HOT SCOTS (1948) - Edward Bernds makes another great detective short here. A lot of funny scenes in the castle, and a great supporting cast, too. The ending is hilarious.

FUELIN' AROUND (1949) - Larry gets a great chance to shine in this short since he's given a little more attention, which I'm happy to see. I always felt he was a little underrated. He has a lot of classic lines here. The scene towards the end with Shemp being stretched out to nearly 5 extra feet is also a hoot. Great short.

HULA-LA-LA (1951) - Another first-rate-er. The only Stooge short that producer Hugh McCollum directed, and he did a very excellent job here. There's a very nice touch at the end with the jungle music that plays in the last scene, being played over the ending credits, instead of the usual "Three Blind Mice" music. McCollum should've been given the chance to direct some more shorts. Even more proof that Columbia giving him and Bernds the gate in 1952 and letting Jules White take over was a horrible mistake.