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Loco Boy Makes Good
Directed by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler Clyde Bruckman
Produced by	Jules White
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent John Tyrrell Dorothy Appleby Symona Boniface Bud Jamison Eddie Laughton Heinie Conklin
Cinematography	John Stumar
Edited by	Jerome Thoms
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	January 8, 1942 (1942-01-08)
Running time	17' 24"
Country	United States
Language	English

Loco Boy Makes Good is the 60th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Desperate to pay their rent, the Stooges get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The trio then decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch.

After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The boys put on a big show with famous critic Waldo Twitchell in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.

Loco Boy Makes Good was the first Stooges short released after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

The film is filled with parodies and timely references. Thetitle itself parodies the expression "Local Boy Makes Good," a generic small-town newspaper headline about a local citizen who has achieved a major accomplishment.^[1] Loco is Spanish for "crazy." In addition, the character name "Waldo Twitchell" is pun of the name Walter Winchell.^[1]

The Stooges' act is billed as "Nill, Null & Void: Three Hams Who Lay Their Own Eggs, appearing in the Kokonuts Grove." The "Kokonuts Grove" is a reference to the Cocoanut Grove, later the site of the deadly 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire.^[1]

In March 1946, four years after the release of Loco Boy Makes Good, silent film star Harold Lloyd filed a $500,000 suit against Columbia Pictures for violation of copyright. The court found the script for Lloyd's 1932 film Movie Crazy, which Clyde Bruckman had directed, virtually identical with Bruckman's script for Loco Boy Makes Good. Columbia lost the suit. Universal Pictures was later sued for similar violations in several Bruckman scripts, costing them several million dollars in damages.^[1]

• Curly: (storming to the dressing room) "How do ya like that?! Hittin' me with a tomato! And Major Bowes said I had talent!"
• Balbo: (chuckles) "A tomato, 'uh?"
• Curly: "Yeah, a cowardly tomato, one that hits you and runs!"

• Patron: "Excuse me, waiter, do you have pâté de fois gras?"
• Larry: (confused) "...I'll see if the band can play it."

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