How High Is Up?

Infobox Film
name = How High Is Up?


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Cy Schindell
Duke York
Bert Young
Bruce Bennett
Edmund Cobb
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
cinematography = Allen G. Siegler
editing = Art Seid
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 26, 1940
runtime = 16' 26"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Nutty But Nice"
followed_by = "From Nurse to Worse"
amg_id = 1:148856
imdb_id = 0032611

"How High is Up?" is the 48th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges, who are working as menders, are asleep under their wagon when a broken hydrant washes them down the street, mattress and all, and into the path of a truck. Rudely awoken by a beat cop, they set about drumming up business. Curly attempts to fix a flat tire (using a slice of salami from Moe's sandwich as a patch), and Moe and Larry struggle to get Curly out of his too-tight sweater.

They later arrive at a construction site and poke holes on the bottom of the workers' lunch boxes, offering to fix the holes for money. When their ruse is discovered, they are chased onto the actual site and blend in with a crowd of people looking for work. Curly states that they are "the best riveters that ever riveted," and the hiring workman (Duke York) sends them to work on the 97th floor, despite Curly's debilitating fear of heights.

They do a lousy job and part of the building collapses when head foreman Mr. Blake (Vernon Dent) leans against a beam. He and several men chases the stooges, who escape by parachuting off the building and landing in their wagon below.

Quotes

This film contains a memorable set of lines repeated in other Stooges films.
**Moe: "Get the tools"
**Larry: "What tools?"
**Moe: "The tools we've been using for the past ten years!"
**Larry: "Oh, "those" tools".

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).