The Three Stooges

A BIRD IN THE HEAD

Columbia, 1946.  Directed by Edward Bernds.  Camera:  Burnett Guffey.  With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent, Robert B. Williams, Frank Lackteen, Art Miles.

The boys are wallpaper hangers, working across the hall from the mad scientist Professor Panzer.  After they do an awful papering job, the Stooges are chased into his laboratory.  The scientist is looking for a human brain small enough to be transplanted into the head of a gorilla.  Panzer fixes on Curley's cranium.  They run away as Larry says, "Maybe he's a headhunter."  Replies Moe: "If he's a headhunter he's hunting small game."  Curley bonds with the gorilla and together they brain the scientist.  Again Curley is hurting [sic].

The Three Stooges
An Illustrated History,
by Michael Fleming
Broadway Books 1999