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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Directed by	Norman Maurer
Produced by	Norman Maurer
Written by	Norman Maurer Jules Verne (novel)
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Jay Sheffield Joan Freeman Walter Burke Peter Forster Maurice Dallimore Richard Devon Anthony Eustrel Iau Kea Robert Kino Phil Arnold Emil Sitka
Music by	Paul Dunlap
Cinematography	Irving Lippman
Editing by	Edwin H. Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	August 21, 1963
Running time	93 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
Followed by	The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) was the fifth feature film made by the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita. Directed by Howard's son-in-law Norman Maurer, The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze was loosely based on the Jules Verne classic, Around the World in 80 Days.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Trivia 3 Primary Cast 4 Further reading 5 External links

Phileas Fogg III, great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime. With him in this plot is his weaselly Cockney co-conspirator Filch (Walter Burke). This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the Stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. On the way, they also: Try to steal a cream pie from the galley of a Turkey-bound British cargo ship (and poke the cook in his fat behind with a gaff in the process); watch an elaborate Indian dance at a maharajah's palace, where blind-as-a-bat Curly Joe also regales the maharajah and the viceroy with knife throwing--until his disguise falls off; get captured in China by the Chinese Army, and survive Communist brainwashing in Shanghai (Moe tells the Chinese general, "No brainee to washee!") and the disgusted Chinese set them adrift in a small boat; use Curly Joe's music-provoked strength to cadge food, clothes, and a trip to San Francisco from the manager of the monstrous sumo Itchy Kitchy after a demonstration in a park in Tokyo; stow away in a moving van, supposedly headed for New York. Of course, they're caught, and arrested in Canada by the British inspector (the Stooges and Amelia fake British accents so the inspector will arrest them too). Back in London, they cross paths again with the two conspirators, again disguised as police--and armed. Of course, the Stooges win out, and, as with the original Phileas Fogg, his descendant miscalculated by one day and still has a chance. Curly Joe gets behind the wheel of the Bobby paddy wagon and speeds across London, and young Fogg wins the bet--crashing into the Reformer's Club with two seconds to spare.

The gag of Curly-Joe becoming combative when he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel" was recycled from one of the earliest (1934) Stooges shorts, Punch Drunks.

• Moe Howard: Moe
• Larry Fine: Larry
• Joe DeRita: Curly-Joe
• Jay Sheffield: Phileas Fogg, III
• Joan Freeman: Amelia Carter
• Walter Burke: Lory Filch
• Peter Forster: Vickers Cavendish/"Stuart"
• Maurice Dallimore: Inspector J. B. Crotchet
• Richard Devon: Maharajah
• Anthony Eustrel: Kandu
• Iau Kea: Itchi Kitchi
• Robert Kino: Charlie Okuma
• Phil Arnold: Referee
• Emil Sitka: Butler at Reformer's Club

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

• The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze at the Internet Movie Database