Emil Sitka Movies

Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jetée. The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic. ~ Leo Charney, All Movie Guide

In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul L. Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets, and one of them does so with gusto. Now the exterminators go after the partner who hired them and his blatantly obnoxious wife (Louise Lasser) and in the meantime frame a poor security guard (Reed Birney) for the murder of the company boss. The tale is told in flashbacks, as the security guard has been tried and convicted and is shown at the beginning, about to be executed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe De Rita) leave Boston for the Wild West when they are fired from the Society for the Preservation of Wildlife. With Eastern editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West), the boys find themselves in lawless Wyoming and the target of every infamous gunslinger of the era. With help from Annie Oakley (Nancy Kovak), the Stooges and Cabot fight the likes of Billy the Kid, Johnny Ringo, Jesse James, Cole Younger, and the Dalton Gang, and soon Wild Bill Hickok and Bat Masters arrive in a blaze of bullets. Watch for longtime Stooges foil Emily Sitar in a triple role as Aberrant, a U.S. cavalry Colonel, and the Witch Doctor, with Henry Gibson as Charlie Horse, and Murray Alper as Chief Crazy Horse. Ellwood Ullman provides the screenplay from the story by director Norman Maurer, Moe's son-in-law. With character names like the Sunstroke Kid and Trigger Mortis, this last of the Stooges feature films ranks among the best. Annie has a fight in the middle of town with Belle Starr (Sally Starr), and the cowardly editor Cabot proves his bravery and falls for his heroine Annie. Years later in a tribute to history's longest running comedy trio, Adam West fondly remembered his experience in making The Outlaws Is Coming with the Stooges. West would score his biggest career plume with the television series Batman, but he was obviously in awe of working with Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Hoping to use a home-built cyclotron to create a fusion of silicone and cobalt in order to reactive his spaceship, Martin (Ray Walston) enlists the aid of 13-year-old scientific genius Donald Mumford (Flip Mark). Martin also comes to Donald's aid in the boy's ongoing war of egos with his jealous mentor Dr. Jackson (Jerome Cowan--while Tim (Bill Bixby) dallies with Donald's pretty guardian Jeanine (Jean Hale). Watch for perennial Three Stooges foil Emil Sitka ("Hold hands, you lovebirds") in the role of a workman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly-Joe DeRita are out of this world as The Three Stooges In Orbit. The veteran comedy trio defends a secret weapon invented by Professor Danforth (Emil Sitka) from falling into the hands of scheming Martians. Following his success as the villain in "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules", George N. Niese returns to play the role of villain, this time a malevolent Martian named Ogg. Of course, Zogg (Raymond Barnes) isn't far behind as the two conspire to steal the new invention that combines the features of a submarine, a tank, and a rocket ship. The Stooges prove their patented brand of slapstick comedy and sight gags work with or without gravity. This is the second Three Stooges film produced by Norman Maurer, who was Moe Howard's son-in-law. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In their first two-reel comedy of 1958 (although filmed in 1957), the Three Stooges welcome blonde Greta Thyssen, Miss Denmark of 1952, and the last in a long line of pretty starlets to grace the team's little comedy shorts. The long-legged former double for Marilyn Monroe (Bus Stop), Miss Thyssen plays the niece of a fake millionaire out to bilk Joe Besser of his game show winnings. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

A professor (Gene Roth) wages that he can turn the Three Stooges into refined gentlemen in this remake, with stock footage of Hoi Polloi (1935) and Half Wits Holiday (1947). Symona Boniface, who had died in 1950, and Helen Dickson appeared courtesy of the stock footage while new scenes were filmed in 1957 featuring Greta Thyssen, Miss Denmark of 1952, Milton Frome, Harriette Tarler, Johnny Kascier, and, as a butler, Emil Sitka. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

In their first sci-fi comedy, the Three Stooges land on Sunev (Venus spelled backwards), a planet inhabited by cannibalistic starlets such as Harriette Tarler, Lorraine Crawford, and Playboy Playmate Marilyn Hanold. Emil Sitka once again plays a deranged scientist, a favorite role of the popular supporting comic. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

This is one of the funnier shorts made by the latter day Three Stooges lineup of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe Besser. The boys are assistants to Professor Jones (Emil Sitka) and they have traveled from Earth to the planet Sunev (which a title informs us is "Venus" spelled backwards). The planet's leader greets them cordially enough, but he has secret plans to bring prehistoric men to life and take over the earth. Jones finds out about the evil scheme and is promptly tied up. Meanwhile, the Stooges are making time with some Sunevian girls. Unfortunately, the girls are charged with "atomic electricity," which makes smooching a bit difficult. At dinner, the alien leader informs them that they are about to die, so they make a mad dash to escape. Getting the aliens out of the way is easy enough -- they short circuit their "atomic electricity" with Joe's hot water bottles (he thought it was going to be cold on Sunev). They have a much harder time getting rid of a prehistoric man (Bonanza's Dan Blocker), but they manage to free Jones and they begin to destroy all the equipment that would have brought doom to the Earth. It turns out that all this is a story the boys were telling their kids (played by the Stooges in baby bonnets). But then the baby-sitter shows up -- and she's got the same caveman face as the monster in their tale. The boys panic and leap out the window. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

In this entry in the Bowery Boys series, one of the members suddenly finds that he can predict winning numbers after he suffers an electrical shock. He and the boys take this special talent and use it on a TV game show. They win a trip to Las Vegas. Unfortunately, his winning streak attracts the interest of local gangsters who trick the clairvoyant lad into believing he killed a man. They use this to blackmail him into forking over his winnings. The gang comes to his aid. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

The Three Stooges play plumbers searching for a diamond ring in this two-reel comedy which added footage from the earlier A Plumbing We Will Go (1940), Vagabond Loafers (1948), and Half Wits Holiday (1948) to a few newly filmed scenes. In a desperate effort to keep the series alive, Shemp Howard, who had died of a heart attack in November of 1955, was doubled by veteran Stooges player Joe Palma. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Dudley Dickerson, Symona Boniface (who had died in 1950), and Emil Sitka all appeared in the stock footage. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

This was the last Three Stooges film in which Shemp Howard appears. The only catch is that Shemp died almost a year before appearing in this comic short (the footage was lifted from previous Three Stooges films). At least Columbia used one of the trio's funnier shorts, Dunked in the Deep, for most of the scenes. The boys play janitors who work at a newspaper office. They're begging the managing editor to be given a chance to become reporters. He promises to think about it over dinner. The phone rings while he is out and Moe answers -- it's one of the boss's men, giving him a scoop that some important documents have been stolen by foreign spies. It turns out that the spy with the microfilmed documents (Gene Roth) lives next door to the Stooges. He and the boys wind up as stowaways on an ocean liner. There's one apparently new scene in which Moe and Larry steal a fish off a diner's plate. The fish turns out to be fake, but that doesn't stop the two of them, or the spy, from eating it. After some funny moments lifted whole from Dunked in the Deep, the boys discover the microfilm and the spy is knocked out cold. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

In this entry in the long-running series, the Bowery Boys must help a reporter who was beaten up during an undercover investigation at a local prison. With the consent of the reporter's editor, the boys pull off a phony jewel caper and two of them are imprisoned. In the pokey, they learn that the editor is the real thief and that they really are in prison. Hijinks ensue until they expose a scam surrounding prison guards on the take from inmates who pay them to give them easier jobs. This allows them to prove their innocence and eventually expose the evil editor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide