"G.I. Wanna Home" is one of the very last Three Stooges shorts to star Curly Howard as the third Stooge. Curly was very ill at this time, apparently having suffered a mild stroke that gravely affected his energy and youthfulness. Director Jules White did the very best he could under the circumstances, shifting a good portion of the comic material to Moe and Larry, with satisfactory results. In this short, the boys return home from serving their country to find their sweethearts dispossessed. The rest of the short consists of the boys doing the very best they can to locate and furnish a suitable domicile for themselves and their future wives.
Here are some of the more memorable scenes from "G.I. Wanna Home." After the girls have been dispossessed, they and the Stooges cram all their belongings (furniture and everything) into one ridiculous-looking vehicle, towed by none other than Curly himself. At the Stooges' new "home" (a vacant lot), Curly uses a vacuum cleaner on the lawn, but he leaves it unattended for too long, and the bag explodes. When Curly's upper bunk bed crashes downward onto Moe and Larry, Curly claims he didn't get hurt, but Moe proves otherwise! AND the Stooges' pet parrot winds up inside a stuffed goose (a gag that has appeared in a few other Stooge shorts such as "Three Dark Horses" [1952] and "Crash Goes the Hash" [1944]).
It's quite easy for the Stooge fan to notice just how badly Curly was struggling during the filming of his last dozen or so Stooge shorts with Moe and Larry, "G.I. Wanna Home" notwithstanding. It was only a question of time when he would suffer the stroke that ultimately rendered him no longer able to perform. After ninety-seven shorts for Columbia ("G.I. Wanna Home" was number ninety-four), Curly's career as one of the Three Stooges was history.
Here are some of the more memorable scenes from "G.I. Wanna Home." After the girls have been dispossessed, they and the Stooges cram all their belongings (furniture and everything) into one ridiculous-looking vehicle, towed by none other than Curly himself. At the Stooges' new "home" (a vacant lot), Curly uses a vacuum cleaner on the lawn, but he leaves it unattended for too long, and the bag explodes. When Curly's upper bunk bed crashes downward onto Moe and Larry, Curly claims he didn't get hurt, but Moe proves otherwise! AND the Stooges' pet parrot winds up inside a stuffed goose (a gag that has appeared in a few other Stooge shorts such as "Three Dark Horses" [1952] and "Crash Goes the Hash" [1944]).
It's quite easy for the Stooge fan to notice just how badly Curly was struggling during the filming of his last dozen or so Stooge shorts with Moe and Larry, "G.I. Wanna Home" notwithstanding. It was only a question of time when he would suffer the stroke that ultimately rendered him no longer able to perform. After ninety-seven shorts for Columbia ("G.I. Wanna Home" was number ninety-four), Curly's career as one of the Three Stooges was history.