Wedlock Deadlock is an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on December 18, 1947 and starring Joe DeRita. The supporting cast features Dorothy Granger and Norman Ollestead. It was the third of four shorts in the Joe DeRita series produced by Columbia from 1946-1948; all entries were remakes of other Columbia shorts.[1]

Wedlock Deadlock
Directed byEdward Bernds
Screenplay byElwood Ullman
Story byClyde Bruckman
Produced byHugh McCollum
StarringJoe DeRita
Christine McIntyre
Patsy Moran
Esther Howard
Charles Williams
Dorothy Granger
Edited byHenry DeMond
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 18, 1947 (1947-12-18)
Running time
16:20
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Premise

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Just as Eddie (Joe DeRita) and his bride Betty (Christine McIntyre) are getting settled into their new home, her irascible family comes to visit.

Cast

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Production notes

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Wedlock Deadlock is a remake of the Monte Collins short film Unrelated Relations (1936).[1]

DeRita did not think highly of his output at Columbia Pictures, once commenting, "My comedy in those scripts was limited to getting hit on the head with something, then going over to my screen wife to say, 'Honey, don't leave me!' For this kind of comedy material, you could have gotten a busboy to do it and it would have been just as funny."[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wedlock Deadlock at threestooges.net
  2. ^ Maurer, Joan Howard; Jeff Lenburg; Greg Lenburg (2012) [1982]. The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. pp. 52–59. ISBN 978-1-61374-074-3.
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