Brideless Groom (1947)

Great Film overall

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Shemp's uncle dies leaving him a large amount of money...if he gets married in 48 hours. He tries to get married with predictable and unfunny results.I'm not a big fan of the Stooges. I don't find violent slapstick all that funny and this one is VERY violent. It's amusing at first and there is a fun bit with Christine McIntyre but at the end it turns really violent and the fun stops. Larry and Shemp both have pieces of hair torn out, Moe sits down on a bear trap and (worst of all) Shemp has a woman get his head in a press which she continuously turns with graphic crunching sounds. That's not funny at all...it's sick! Also the portrayal of women as doing anything for money is troubling. I originally saw this as a little kid on TV and had nightmares all night about it! Sick and unfunny.

Not wishing to repeat what everyone else has noted, I will only say this: Nearly everybody says they loved Curly best... but I will put BRIDELESS GROOM up against ANY of other the Stooges shorts. I think it's the most hilarious from start to finish, as well as being the most re-watchable.The off-key singing student... Christine McIntire's "Cousin Basil" routine, and of course Emil Sitka's J.P. are highlights, but only around the Stooges' impeccable timing and the great writing too!Nuff said.

The Stooges are back and funnier than ever. "Brideless Groom" in my opinion was probably the best Shemp flick.Shemp has the opportunity to inherit $500,000(which was probably more than a million dollars compared to today) from his dead uncle. BUT! There is a catch. He has to marry someone that day by 6 o'clock. Shemp is a bachelor with not too many admirers, except for one high pitched aggressive annoying singing student of his. But he doesn't want her, he wants someone a little more on the Victoria's Secret model type of women. But obviously he has no choice since he's no Collin Ferrel himself. But when it is printed in the papers that he is to inherit all that money if married, his ex girlfriends are on the "I want my man back" attack! What a great stooge flick! This is up there with thewinners of all stooge flicks! 9/10

There are one or two other Shemp-era shorts I like more (i.e. SCRAMBLED BRAINS), but I think one can say--without much argument--that in this particular episode, Shemp gives his greatest comedic performance as a stooge after rejoining the team in 1946.Scene for scene, this episode hardly lets up: from Professor Shemp Howard's voice lessons with the glass-shattering Dee Green, to his futile attempts to win a dame's hand in marriage (this is your little snookums... will you marry me *click*) to the uproarious finish, it never fails to keep me in stitches.I would be remiss not mention that immortal scene with Miss Hopkins (the always lovely Christine McIntyre). Btw, isn't she rather under-dressed and over amorous in greeting the man she thinks is her 'Cousin' Basil? Who knows, maybe the actual Basil was a "very" distant cousin, which makes it legal in some states (as far as I know). >:-]