🔎 "You Nazty Spy!" The Three Stooges, 1940 - The Stooges Mocked Hitler Before Chaplin [View all]

🎭 You Nazty Spy! is a 1940 comedy film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, & Curly Howard).. Upon seizing power, the Stooges – under the guise of Hailstone, Gallstone, and Pebble – attempt to govern Moronika. However, their incompetence and absurdity quickly unravel their authority. A subplot emerges with the arrival of Mattie Herring, who is suspected of espionage by the Stooges..

You Nazty Spy! satirized the Nazis and the Third Reich and helped publicize the Nazi threat in a period when the U.S. was still neutral about World War II and isolationist sentiment was prevalent among the public. During this period, isolationist senators such as Burton Wheeler and Gerald Nye objected to Hollywood films on grounds that they were anti-Nazi propaganda vehicles designed to mobilize the American public...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Nazty_Spy!


The Three Stooges War Effort. Learn how Larry, Moe and Curly came to be on Hitler's enemies list. WMUR-TV (6 mins, Jan. 2, 2018).