The Three Stooges

UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS

Columbia, 1946.  Directed by Jules White.  Camera:  Philip Tannura.  With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eleanor Counts, Lew Davis, Maury Dexter, Marilyn Johnson, Johnny Kascier, Theodore Lorch, Joe Palma, Al Rosen, Cy Schindell, Victor Travis, John Tyrrell, Evelyn Venable, Blackie Whiteford, Faye Williams, Robert B. Williams.

Stooges are three Southern gents who ask their girls to marry them.  Unfortunately, it's during the Civil War and the trio decides to join up.  Trouble is, Curly's joined the Confederate army, while Moe and Larry show up in the uniform of the opposite team.  They take turns locking each other in the smokehouse, depending on which side is winning.  Next they don blackface and masquerade as slaves.

After a few turns before a bumbling firing squad, including a spirited death scene by Curly even though he's not really shot, the boys give Northern maps to the Southern generals and marry their sweethearts.

The Three Stooges
An Illustrated History,
by Michael Fleming
Broadway Books 1999