This Dadaist anti-fascist short with the Three Stooges making fun of Hitler, Mussolini, kleptocrats and war profiteering businessmen is – unfortunately — more than relevant today. Released 10 months before Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator,” this little-seen, wickedly funny gem was Hollywood’s first anti-Nazi comedy.
Starring the incomparable slapstick comedy team of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard, “You Nazty Spy!” was the 44th of the 190 shorts released by Columbia Pictures with the comedians between 1934 and 1959. The film’s title plays upon the 1939 Warner Bros. film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” and comedian Joe Penner’s catchphrase “You Nasty Man!
Directed by Jules White, USA, 1940. New England premiere of new digital restoration.
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