Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
mark.waltz A variation of the story that became the Buster Keaton classic, "Seven Chances", this Three Stooges short is funnier from the view of the perspective brides than the usual violent schtick of the stooges. There's a funny rendition of a classic song sung by the massively untalented Dee Green whose voice would scare hogs away from their slop, as well as all sorts of aggressive, portly, man crazy, hideous looking bags that could be found among the Columbia bit players. Still, even with the legacy of the original premise, it's a poor substitution for the comedy that Keaton provided. I still don't get the humor of this comedy team, although I did like the joke, "Wait a minute. You wouldn't hit a lady with that. Use this. It's bigger."
Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Brideless Groom" is a black-and-white short film and just liked the other Stooges short movies, it runs for roughly 16 minutes. It is possibly the most famous Stooges short film that features Shemp and not Curly and, fittingly, Shemp also plays the main character here. He is bound to inherit a fortune, but only if he is married, so the other two Stooges try everything to make it happen. Shemp is not so amused, the eternal bachelor it seems. Just like most of the trio's other works, the humor is mainly based on chaos, but the good thing is that it's not really these stupid slightly violent jokes, but sometimes actually funny, like when the woman thinks that Larry is the groom. The cast and director/writer team are all people who appeared in many more Stooges (short) films. Never change a winning team, I guess. All in all, a decent watch without real greatness, but at least also without political references that were common not much earlier. The days of World War 2 were gone. Recommended.
Kristine The Stooges are back and funnier than ever. "Brideless Groom" in my opinion was probably the best Shemp flick.Shemp has the opportunity to inherit $500,000(which was probably more than a million dollars compared to today) from his dead uncle. BUT! There is a catch. He has to marry someone that day by 6 o'clock. Shemp is a bachelor with not too many admirers, except for one high pitched aggressive annoying singing student of his. But he doesn't want her, he wants someone a little more on the Victoria's Secret model type of women. But obviously he has no choice since he's no Collin Ferrel himself. But when it is printed in the papers that he is to inherit all that money if married, his ex girlfriends are on the "I want my man back" attack! What a great stooge flick! This is up there with thewinners of all stooge flicks! 9/10
carver Clyde Bruckman borrows the premise of this short from Buster Keaton's "Seven Chances," recently tepidly remade as "The Bachelor." In the original, Buster has 24-hours to get married in order to inherit a large sum of money. In this version, musical teacher Prof. Shemp has only 7 hours (After all, it is a short!). This is one of the better Stooges shorts due to the storyline and wonderful routines (Including the telephone booth scene with Moe & Shemp, reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy's "Berth Marks" and the Marx Brothers famous stateroom scene in "Night At The Opera - here the boys hold their own in their variation of this routine). I'm not a huge Stooges fan, but this one should be noted by any student of comedy as one of their very best since the early 30s shorts.
