The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze is the fifth feature film made by the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of
Moe HowardMoses Harry Horwitz , known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades...
,
Larry FineLouis Feinberg , known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American comedian and actor, who is best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.-Early life:...
, and Joe DeRita (dubbed "Curly Joe"). Directed by Howard's son-in-law
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,
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze was loosely based on the
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classic
Around the World in Eighty Days.
Plot
Phileas Fogg III (
Jay SheffieldJay Sheffield was an American actor, who appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze. Sheffield played Phileas Fogg III, the great grandson of Phileas Fogg.-External links:...
), great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish (
Peter ForsterPeter Edgar Forster was an American film and television actor. He was born and brought up in San Francisco, California, where he trained to become an actor before moving to Los Angeles...
) who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.
With him in this plot is his weaselly
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co-conspirator Filch (
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). This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the Stooges) and Amelia Carter (
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), whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. On the way, they also: try to steal a cream pie from the galley of a
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-bound British cargo ship (and poke the cook in his fat behind with a
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in the process); watch an elaborate
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n dance at a maharajah's palace, where blind-as-a-bat Curly Joe also regales the maharajah and the viceroy with knife throwing—until his disguise falls off; get captured in
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by the Chinese Army, and survive Communist brainwashing in
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with their interrogators turning into Chinese Stooge clones (Moe tells the Chinese general, "No brainee to washee!"). The disgusted Chinese set them adrift in a small boat; use Curly Joe's music-provoked strength to cadge food, clothes, and a trip to San Francisco from the manager of the monstrous
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Itchy Kitchy (
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) after a demonstration in a park in
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; stow away in a moving van, supposedly headed for
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. Of course, they are caught, and arrested in
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by the British inspector (the Stooges and Amelia fake British accents so the inspector will arrest them too).
Back in London, they cross paths again with the two conspirators, again disguised as police—and armed. Of course, the Stooges win out, and, as with the original Phileas Fogg, his descendant miscalculated by one day and still has a chance. Curly Joe gets behind the wheel of the
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paddy wagon and speeds across London, and young Fogg wins the bet—crashing into the Reformer's Club with two seconds to spare.
Cast
- Moe Howard
Moses Harry Horwitz , known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades...
as Moe
- Larry Fine
Louis Feinberg , known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American comedian and actor, who is best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.-Early life:...
as Larry
- Joe DeRita as Curly Joe
- Jay Sheffield
Jay Sheffield was an American actor, who appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze. Sheffield played Phileas Fogg III, the great grandson of Phileas Fogg.-External links:...
as Phileas Fogg, III
- Joan Freeman
Joan Freeman is an American actress.Freeman was a child actor, having appeared in her first film in 1949 at the age of seven...
as Amelia Carter
- Walter Burke
Walter Burke was a prolific Irish-American character actor, of stage, film, and television. His small stature, and distinctive voice and face, made him easily recognizable in even the most minor of roles.- Early life :...
as Lory Filch
- Peter Forster
Peter Edgar Forster was an American film and television actor. He was born and brought up in San Francisco, California, where he trained to become an actor before moving to Los Angeles...
as Vickers Cavendish/"Stuart"
- Maurice Dallimore as Inspector J. B. Crotchet
- Richard Devon
Richard Devon was an American character actor best known for his roles in television and film.-Career:Devon was born in Glendale, California...
as Maharajah
- Anthony Eustrel
Anthony Eustrel was a British actor. His ashes are inurned at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.-Selected filmography:* Under the Red Robe * Second Bureau * The Wife of General Ling * Gasbags...
as Kandu
- Iau Kea
Curtis Piehau Iaukea, III was a professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional US promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation where he...
as Itchi Kitchi
- Robert Kino as Charlie Okuma
- Phil Arnold
Phil Arnold was an American screen, stage, television, and vaudeville actor. He appeared in approximately 150 films and television shows between 1939 and 1968....
as Referee
- Emil Sitka
Emil Sitka was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with the Three Stooges—nearly 40...
as Butler at Reformer's Club
- Laurie Main
Laurence "Laurie" Main is an English former actor. Although Main appeared in many films and television series since the 1950s, he is perhaps best known for hosting and narrating the children's series Welcome to Pooh Corner, which aired on The Disney Channel during the 1980s.His television guest...
as a member of the Reformer's Club
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