Snow White and The Three Stooges
A 1961 Fantasy film adapting the tale of Snow White, featuring Carol Heiss, who was a figure skater, not an actor, and the 1959 incarnation of The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and "Curly Joe") Playing Against Type.
If you are looking for something funny, you will be disappointed. If you aren't a big fan of the Stooges, though, you may enjoy it.
Tropes used in Snow White and The Three Stooges include:
- Adaptation Expansion: The inclusion of Count Oga, for one. The prince probably got the best deal in this movie. He actually has a role in the story instead of just a cameo, and he even gets to take part in an action-packed climax. The actor playing him even had a healthy acting career after this.
- Canon Foreigner: Count Oga
- The Dragon: Count Oga
- Dream Ballet
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Snow White's skating dress on her birthday is loaded with sequins.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Count Oga takes a header into a cauldron filled with boiling oil and is shown sinking out of sight with an utterly agonized look on his face. If the movie wasn't so full of Narm this would surely count as some sort of Nightmare Fuel.
- Gorgeous Period Dress
- Hey, It's That Voice!: The Prince's ventriloquist dummy Quinto is voiced by Mel Blanc using his Bugs Bunny voice.
- Jail Bake: With a sandwich instead of a cake.
- Old Shame: Okay, not the old part, since this was late in their careers, but The Stooges didn't like to talk about this film afterwards. (Moe Howard used to refer to it as "our Technicolor mistake.")
- Parental Abandonment: Snow White's mother, of course to have the king remarry, and her father dies on her birthday.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Snow White's skating dresses.
- Pretty in Mink: The film had a number of dresses with fur trim, including the white skating dress Snow White wears, and she gets an ermine muff for her birthday.
- Prince Charming: Actually named that.
- Princess Classic
- Rule of Three: The magic dagger Count Oga wears grants three wishes, but they can only be used for good.
- And of course, 3 Stooges.
- Slapstick: There was some, just not enough.
- Stunt Casting: The Stooges
- Whole Costume Reference: Show White's skating dress was reused in Land of the Giants.
