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The Panther Beer Company is having trouble getting their deliveries done on time, so they hire three new guys. You can guess whom! They get off to a bad start when they spill one barrel of beer on top of the company president's head!

It's also time for the beer company's annual golf tournament. Coincidentally, the first beer run is at the fairly-swank golf course. Needless to say, the boys don't exactly fit in at the golf club.

The Stooges trying to play golf is, of course, ludicrous with some classic scenes. By the time they are done, they've ruined the course. The greens-keepers - all with strong Italian accents - are going out of their minds.

The best part of this might not have been the golf but final few minutes when they run away and spill all the beer barrels out of their truck and mayhem ensues in the streets. It's corny; it's stupid, but it is classic Stooges slapstick humor, reminiscent of the silent comedy era which was less than 10 years before this was made.

Note: This is one of those movies in which they spell Curley with an "e." Most of the time, it's "Curly."

Exceptional early comedy from The Three Stooges, taking them out on the golf course where they completely destroy the grounds and make life miserable for the members of a golf club. Moe, Larry and Curley don't know how to play, of course, but that doesn't stop them from joining in anyway after the beer distributor they work for offers a chance for its employees to win one hundred bucks at their annual golfing tournament. Some pretty good lines here and there too, in addition to the expected physical zany routines. A good place to start for first-time Stooge viewers.

***1/2 out of ****

Nothing has a more calming effect than playing on a golf course swinging one's troubles away. That is until The Three Stooges arrive. In their 11th Columbia Pictures short, the trio wreck havoc on a private country club's ground in November 1935's "Three Little Beers." The movie, besides a brief office introduction inside the brewery's office, was filmed exclusively outside, making this the Stooges' most number of exterior location shots in all of their films.

Moe, Larry and Curly had just been hired as beer keg deliverymen when Moe spots a leaflet advertising a golf tournament at the local country club they're assigned for delivery. He thinks they can easily win the $100 prize. The three set out to show their skills on the golf course during the tournament held exclusively for members of the press. Through the process of golfing, Curly chops down a tree to retrieve his club and ball, Moe scours the fairway with divots in his attempts to hit a golf ball, and Larry destroys a putting green pulling on a stubborn root.

Filming took place at Los Angeles' Rancho Park Golf Course on Pico Boulevard across from the 20th Century Fox studios. Once the Stooges were chased out of the golf club they proceeded to deliver the beer kegs. Two barrels fell out of the truck on top of a hill on Scott Avenue in L. A.. While chasing the two barrels down the sloping street, the Stooges soon realized the rest of the barrels have spilled out of the truck, sending a cascade of them tumbling down onto the intersection of busy Echo Park Avenue. The Stooges' sequence is similar to Buster Keaton's barrel scene in his 1933 "What-No Beer!" "Three Little Beers" was producer Julius White's first handling of a Three Stooges short. The Hungarian-born Julius Weiss was introduced to motion pictures as a youngster in the 1910s, and was hired in 1930 by MGM to co-direct its canine series 'Dogville Comedies' with his friend Zion Myers. Just as Hal Roach Studios and Universal Pictures were winding down their short subject divisions, White, 33, was contracted by Columbia Pictures in 1933 to head its short productions. White, known for his quick turnarounds reminiscent of the silent comedy era, oversaw along with Hugh McCollum the studio's more than 500 short films for over 25 years until the late 1950s. Just about forty per-cent of White's work involved The Three Stooges.

this is definitely one of my favourite 3 stooges short. i've watched it over and over again and laugh out loud every single time.

i watched 3 stooges as a kid every Saturday morning with my dad, and am only just rediscovering them. watching them now, i didn't think i would like them, as i've grown up and my tastes have changed -- and it's true -- i love the 3 stooges now!

the title is a little misleading, as most of the action occurs on the golf course and not with the stooges' job as beer delivery men.

one thing that makes this short so good is that the stooges split up and create havoc on the golf course on their own, in their own equally funny way. this lets Larry and Curly, for instance, make trouble without Moe there to stop them.

my favourite line in this short has to be when the stooges noisily approach a man who is just about to tee off, and the golfer asks them to be quiet - and Moe replies: "oh, you've got secrets, eh?"

What do you get when you add Three Stooges and eighteen holes of golf? The greatest comedy short ever caught on film!

Moe, Larry, and Curly are working for a brewing company in this one. They hear about the upcoming company golf outing and decide to get in some practice so that they can win the prize money. But putting those three guys on a golf course is bad news for the course! I've never seen such big divots! Even when I play golf! And the ending leaves me rolling on the floor every time I see it. Yes, the laughs certainly are on par.

This is my favorite Stooges short by far. A big whopping 11 out of 10!

This is by far the best short episode i have seen, the most madcapped, slapstick episode created. Moe, Larry and Curly each exhibit their best performances as wannabe golfers, who in their usual way, ruin almost an entire golfcourse, i couldn't get over the laughs in this one! definate 10 out of 10 material!

Dated of course, but with the upcoming movie there will be much renewed interest in the Stooges. Still funny after 65 years, the boys will be around for a long time as generation after generation dicovers them.

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Three Little Beers is one of those comedy short subjects where you see a gag right from the beginning and can hardly wait for it to be pulled. Moe, Larry, and Curly are delivery men for a brewery and when you see how they pile the kegs in their delivery truck, you know something is going to happen and you spend most of this very short subject waiting for the payoff.

The boys read about a company golf tournament and decide to bone up on a game they know nothing about. Dressed as nattily as Walter Hagen or Bobby Jones they literally tear up the golf course and the groundskeepers and other golfers end up chasing them. That's where those piled high kegs of beer come into play. Need I draw you a picture?

Enough to drive anyone to drink or many laughs.

One of the best Three Stooges shorts is Three Little Bears!Bud Jamison was very good.When the Stooges are golfing its so funny.The two workers who discover what they are doing to the golf course is very funny as well!Check out this great Three Stooge short!

This is my review of the eleventh Three Stooges short made for Columbia Pictures. In this one, they are beer delivery men who find out about the company golf tournament and want in badly! So when they find out their errand goes to that place, they stop what they're doing and disastrously join in the festivities! Though there were plenty of funny lines and gags, I wasn't as much entertained as I was with the last 2 or 3 shorts since Moe seemed more bullying than usual for him, Curley (as his name was spelled during this time) wasn't as inventive though I loved his end of the "press" gag, and Larry seemed more of a non-entity this time though he still had his moments. It was nice to see usual Stooge regular Bud Jamison here again even though he was briefer than usual. It was also nice to see him finally get a credit for the first time here. Also getting a credit for the first time: producer Jules White. So for all that, Three Little Beers comes recommended.

"Three Little Beers" came out at a very good time. After all, Prohibition had only recently been repealed and the film capitalizes on this by having the Stooges play delivery men for a brewery.

On their new job, the Stooges learn that the brewery is offering a contest for its employees. They decide to try their hand at playing golf...and the contest offers some nice cash prizes. So, instead of delivering the beer, they sneak off to a golf course to practice. Naturally they make nuisances of themselves!

This is a genuinely funny short film. Much of it is because this is unfamiliar territory for the team, as in many of the later films, their plots are recycled from previous shorts from Columbia (not just theirs...but those of other comedians). My only complains, and it's minor, is the use of the rear projection when Moe is dancing on a barrel...it is a bit cheesy.

The cinematic spoofing of the high-class sports of golf was made famous by W. C. Fields in a couple of his films and even Laurel & Hardy tackled the subject in one of their underrated Silent shorts, SHOULD MARRIED MEN GO HOME? (1928); it's hardly surprising, therefore, to find The Three Stooges getting the golfing bug in this one and, later still, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis would do so too in THE CADDY (1953).

Anyway, The Stooges are newly-employed delivery-men with a beer-producing company who set their modest sights on winning the top $100 prize in a golfing competition between employees of their own firm; they stop during a delivery to spend an hour of training at the sport which, typically, is alien to them at this point…and their ideas sure don't get any clearer by the end of it. Happily, in lieu of their usual slaphappy schtick, we get several funny routines displaying their incompetence at the sport: Moe digging up innumerable holes in the green in his attempts to hit the ball and maintaining that he must be improving since the holes are getting smaller; Curly chopping down a tree because his ball has got itself stuck in it; Moe hitting dozens of golf balls with three tees simultaneously and striking down everybody who happens to be in the vicinity; Larry getting stuck in a cement pit and being dragged by the irate worker by his moppish hair; the boys being chased around the sloping town streets by their own kegs of beer which have gone loose, etc.

Larry, Curly, and Moe are bumbling brewery deliverymen. It's the company's annual golf tournament and 1st prize is 100 bucks. The guys sneak into a country club to learn to play golf.

Golf is a natural subject matter for the boys. It's easy to do and the high class backdrop clashes perfectly with the boys. I would rather have the boys dress as regular workmen while everybody else wear golf clothes. I like Curly doing his laundry. I think they could do more golf stuff. I know they like to do two parts in their shorts but a full-on takedown of golf culture would be more interesting. Then there is the Donkey Kong section. There are some stunts with doubles. The boys do take a few hits. It's hard to get more from the boys with such physically tough slapstick. This is very good although this leaves me wanting more.

If your business is in trouble and you need some new workers, the logical thing is to hire the Three Stooges. They always raise the quality of work. Here, the get jobs delivering beer from a brewery. They are immediately fired, but to recoup money, enter a golf tournament. Of course, by the time they are done, they have destroyed both the beer business and the golf course. One can only watch a couple of these in one sitting because they are nearly all exactly the same.

This is a very funny short by the stooges they enter a golfing tournament so they can get money but just end up getting everyone mad for example Larry finds a string and keeps pulling it and it ruins the green, Moe also ruins the green by trying to hit the ball but keeps missing or not hitting it far and Curly gets his club stuck in a tree and then chops it down. Overall very funny.

This short has some great gags mixed in, but overall I found it somewhat mediocre and slow-paced. The Stooges wreaking havoc at a fancy golf course would've been a perfect opportunity for them to poke fun at the upper classes, as they did in their better films (such as Crash Goes the Hash), but here they seem to ignore the possibilities of doing so. Maybe golf fans would find it funnier, but I didn't. The final chase scene in particular struck me as being an afterthought that didn't really belong. Overall, it was OK, but not as great as it could've been.