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Morons in Moronika!

Three Stooges  - You Nazty Spy (1940) Another controversial film sneering at Hitler and his grandiose plans even before the Second World War went into full steam. It was done about the same time as Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'. Unlike Chaplin's full-length feature film, this flick from the favourite comedians from the time we were growing up in RRF, as usual, is in a short 15-minute show. Curly Gallstone, Larry Pebble,  Moe Hailstone Three businessmen making money from making ammunition find that the business is slow. The going was brutal as their King, the King of Moronika, was a peace-loving man. They decided to appoint a dictator to overthrow the country's monarchy and start a war to stimulate interaction. And who is to be given the honours of being picked as a dumb dictator? Moe, of course. His buddies, Curly and Larry, fellow wallpaper-applying workers, are appointed Field Marshall and Minister of Propaganda, respectively. After creating th...