It's Stooge Sunday and this week, boys and girls, we get the real lowdown on the Third Reich. You know who the first actor was to ever play Hitler on film? Well, most folks think it was Moe Howard in this short comedy, You Nazty Spy, which was released on January 19, 1940. That's almost two years before the United States declared war on Germany. The Stooges were ahead of Washington…and why are we not surprised?
What else to tell you about it? Larry Fine plays Goebbels and walks with a limp. This is not because Goebbels walked with a limp. He did…but Larry had injured himself shortly before filming commenced. Nice how that worked out, isn't it? Also, one of the writers was Clyde Bruckman, who we wrote about here last Stooge Sunday.
This film was one of the Stooges' favorites and it's the one Moe most often brought up in interviews in later years. It went over so well, they made a sequel…which you'll see here next Stooge Sunday. Buckle up and get ready for take off…
