Three Smart Guys

{{Infobox film

| name = Three Smart Guys

| image = Our Gang 3 Smart Guys 1943.jpg

| caption =

| director = Edward Cahn

| producer = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| writer = Hal Law
Robert A. McGowan

| narrator =

| starring = Bobby Blake
Billy Laughlin
Billie Thomas
Janet Burston
Edward Fielding
Marta Linden

| music =

| cinematography = Jackson Rose

| editing = John D. Faure

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1943|10|23}}

| runtime = {{duration | m=10 | s= 39}}

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Three Smart Guys is a 1943 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 217th Our Gang short to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=254–255 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/254/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Plot

Mickey, Froggy and Buckwheat devise a scheme to play hooky from school and go fishing. They misbehave in class in hopes that the teacher will expel them but instead are forced to stay after school. The next morning they decide to just play hooky and go fishing, but upon arriving at the river bank, the kids make the acquaintance of a friendly hobo (Edward Fielding), who advises them that they will never hook the "fish" of success unless they return to school. Duly chastened, the boys rush off to the schoolhouse just in time for the first bell.

Cast

=The Gang=

Bobby Blake as Mickey
Billy Laughlin as Froggy
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
Janet Burston as Janet

=Additional cast=

Edward Fielding as The wise fisherman
Marta Linden as Miss Pillsbury, teacher
Marlene Kisker as Classroom extra
Eleanor Taylor as Classroom extra

Production notes

Plot devices for Three Smart Guys were borrowed from 1932's Readin' and Writin'.

Edward Cahn returned to direct this entry. Cyril Endfield then assumed directorial duties until production on the series ceased the following year.{{Cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226215/Three-Smart-Guys/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520210111/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226215/Three-Smart-Guys/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-20 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Three-Smart-Guys|author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=2008-10-08}}