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"Pardon My Terror" was originally written for the Three Stooges. However, Curly's health was a mess, as he has a series of strokes and so the studio made it with Gus Schilling and Richard Lane. Incidentally, a few years later, the Stooges (with Shemp) remade this film as "Who Done It?".

The story begins with a murder or kidnapping...you aren't sure which. Private detectives Schilling and Lane are called to investigate.

At times, you will realize just how much like a Three Stooges film this is. For example, one of them is very Moe-like, the other very much like Curly in the dialog. As for Larry, both actors apparently split up his lines. And, at times, they even act a bit like the Stooges...particularly when there's physical violence...you can REALLY imagine Moe doing this.

So is it any good? Yes. If you love the Stooges, you'll likely love this. As for me, I am not a huge Stooge fan but enjoyed the film...and loved the ending!

This obscure comedy short is best known to be originally written for the Three Stooges, but due to third Stooge Curly Howard's career-ending stroke, the script was quickly modified and assigned to the comedy team of character actors Gus Schilling and Richard Lane (who was better known as Inspector Farraday in the Boston Blackie films).

This short is not perfect, but Schilling and Lane do fit into the material rather well, though it's sort of jarring to see Lane slap Schilling around, since the two played friends in their other Columbia shorts. Kenneth MacDonald and Dick Wessel are good as the villains, as well as Philip van Zandt as the seemingly sinister butler, as well as Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, and Dudley Dickerson in other supporting roles. Edward Bernds, who wrote the short, apparently wasn't too satisfied with the finished product and remade it again with the Stooges as Who Done It?, a few years later, which is vastly superior.