Half Shot Shooters
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Directed by	Jack White
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Stanley Blystone Vernon Dent Edward LeSaint Harry Semels Heinie Conklin
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by	Eddie Laughton
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	April 30, 1936
Running time	17'
Country	United States
Language	English

Half Shot Shooters is the 14th 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.

Half-Shot Shooters (1936) is the 14th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges. This episode's guest stars were Stanley Blystone and Vernon Dent.

Plot

The Stooges are discharged from the army after World War I, and they promptly administer some revenge to their cruel sergeant, Sgt. MacGillicuddy. Years later, they are traveling the streets hungry, when they are tricked into signing up for the army again. Naturally, MacGillicuddy is their new superior.

The Stooges are then assigned to man a coast artillery gun site, and begin practicing their skills. They first hit a smokestack, then a house, next a bridge, and lastly, a battleship, which happens to be the admiral's flagship. The officers and Sgt. MacGillicuddy go to the site to investigate, and the Stooges point fingers at each other as to who is to blame for the hitting. Then the sergeant asks them to line up on one side and stay there for a photo shoot. The Stooges agreed, and prepare to pose just as Sgt. MacGillicuddy swings the gun at them.

Quotes

• • Curly: "For two cents, I'll punch you right in the face!"
  • Man (angrily, holding out two pennies): "Well, here's the two cents!"
  • Curly (meekly): "Well, I raised my price."

• • Curly: "Hey, I think there's something screwy going on around here."
  • Moe: "Every time you think you weaken the nation."

• • Moe: "Boxcars wasn't good enough for you, was it?"
  • Curly: "I don't know...I'm a stowaway."
  • Moe: "Well, stow this away."
  • [Moe slaps Curly.]

• • Sgt. MacGillicuddy: "This is a test to see if your ears will stand the firing of a big gun."
  • Moe: "That's a new one on me."
  • Sgt. MacGillicuddy: "Yeah, I just thought of it."

• • Commanding officer: "Now, where were you born?"
  • Curly: "Oh, born? Upstairs, in the front room!"

• • Commanding officer: "Were you born in this country?"
  • Larry: "No, Milwaukee."

• • Commanding officer: "Would you fight for this great republic and..."
  • Moe: "Republican? No, I'm a Democrat."
  • Curly: "Not me! I'm a pedestrian!"

• • Capt. Burke: "Who fired those shots?"
  • Moe, Larry, and Curly: "I did!"
  • [Moe bops Larry and Curly.]
  • Moe: "Let's get this straight. I did, and boy, was that a shot or was that a shot?"
  • Capt. Burke: "Well, you hit the admiral's flagship!"
  • Moe (to Larry): "Why did you hit the admiral's flagship?"
  • [Moe slaps Larry.]
  • Moe (to Curly): "Why'd you hit the admiral's flagship for?"
  • [Moe slaps Curly.]

Trivia

• This is the first Stooges short to feature an appearance by Vernon Dent, who would appear in many more shorts until the late 1950s.