Back from the Front is a 1943 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 70th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot The Stooges bid a fond farewell to their girls, Tizzy, Lizzy and Dizzy and join the war effort by enlisting in the Merchant Marines. While aboard ship, they have a brief altercation with Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), a Nazi spy, and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they encounter Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are in with a nest of German sailors, they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard. Cast Credited Moe Howard as Moe Larry Fine as Larry Curly Howard as Curly Uncredited Stanley Blystone as German Captain Neal Burns as German Sailor Sally Cairns as Tizzy Heinie Conklin as German Sailor Vernon Dent as Lt. Dungen Hubert Diltz as German Sailor Lew Davis as German Sailor Kit Guard as Crewman George Gray as German Sailor Bud Jamison as German Petty Officer Johnny Kascier as German Officer Sam Lufkin as German Sailor Jack "Tiny" Lipson as Heavyset German Sailor Adele Mara as Dizzy Ruth Skinner as Lizzy Harry Semels as German Sentry Al Thompson as German Sailor Production notes Back from the Front was filmed over four days on July 24–28, 1942. It was the first Stooge film to feature an accompanying sound effect for the eye poke gag. A TWANG is heard when Moe pokes Lt. Dugen (Vernon Dent) in the eyes. Different sounds were used with varying rates of success throughout 1943 and 1944 — a nose honk is inappropriately used in Higher Than a Kite, a xylophone in Crash Goes the Hash. The sound of a ukulele or violin string being plucked was used regularly after 1945. Moe reprises his Adolf Hitler role from You Nazty Spy! and I'll Never Heil Again. The end was satire, with Moe telling the Nazis to use their heads and shoot out their brains, to which Stanley Blystone replies, "But mein Führer,