The Three Stooges
Stooge Shorts
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Introduction
This filmography of the Three Stooges Columbia short films is based on
notes I took as a dedicated stooge watcher during the seventies. Over a
period of several years I saw all of the 190 shorts and recorded a
description of each film in a notebook. I've now transcibed my material to
electronic form and have uploaded it for your reading pleasure.
I've included some additional cast information from the book "Movie Comedy
Teams" by Leonard Maltin (1974) and have added comments following some of
the descriptions. I've also rated each short on a 1-5 star basis.
Mitch Shapiro
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1934 - 1940 (Moe, Larry, Curly)
1. Woman Haters (1934) ***+
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Director: Archie Gottler
Cast : Marjorie White, A.R. Haysel, Monte Collins, Bud Jamison,
"Snowflake", Jack Norton, Don Roberts, Tiny Sanford,
Dorthy Vernon, Les Goodwin, Charles Richman, George Gray,
Gibert C. Emery, Walter Brennan
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to
do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to
hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
[ This story is done in rhyme which detracts from the enjoyability. ]
2. Punch Drunks (1934) ****
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Director: Lou Breslow
Cast : Dorothy Granger, Arthur Housman
Moe is a boxing promoter looking for a good fighter. Curly is a
mild-mannered waiter who goes crazy whenever he hears "Pop Goes the
Weasel". Larry is a violinist recruited to play the tune. Curly
becomes a great fighter and gets a championship match. Things look
bad when Larry's violin is smashed, but everything turns out fine
when Larry delivers the music by driving a truck through the arena
wall.
3. Men in Black (1934) ***+
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Director: Raymond McCarey
Cast : Dell Henderson, Jeanie Roberts, Ruth Hiatt, Joe Fine,
Irene Coleman, Billy Gilbert, Little Billy, Neal Burns,
Arthur West, Bud Jamison, Hank Mann, Joe Mills, Bob
Callahan, Phyllis Crane, Carmen Andre, Betty Andre, Helen
Splane, Kay Hughes, Eve Reynolds, Charles King, Eve
Kimberly, Lucille Watson, Billie Stockton, Arthur Ranking,
Charles Dorety
The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt
patients and staff alike.
[The title is a play on "Men in White", a popular film of the time.
Nominated for "Best Short Subject" in 1934. ]
4. Three Little Pigskins (1934) ****-
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Director: Raymond McCarey
Cast : Lucille Ball, Gertie Green, Phyllis Green, Walter Long,
Joe Young, Milt Douglas, Harry Bowen, Lynton Brent, Bud
Jamison, Dutch Hendrian, Charles Dorett, William Irving,
Joe Levine, Alex Hirschfield, Billy Wolfstone, Bobby
Burns, Jimmie Philips, Johnny Korcsier.
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of
Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team,
they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a
nice part as a gun moll.
5. Horses Collars (1935) ***+
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Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast : Dorothy Kent, Fred Kohler, Fred Kelsey
The stooges are private detectives in the old west trying to help a
girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU
from the villains wallet and then from a safe meet with problems
until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out
all the bad guys.
6. Restless Knights (1935) ***+
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Director: Charles Lamont
Cast : Geneva Mitchell, Stanley Blystone, Walter Brennan, Chris
Franke, George Baxter, Bud O'Neill, James Howard, Jack
Duffy, Ernie Young, Lynton Brent, Bob Burns, William
Irving, Joe Perry, Dutch Hendrian, George Speer, Bert
Young, Billy Franey, Al Thompson.
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and
vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but
are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the
evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up
knocking each other out.
7. Pop Goes the Easel (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Leo White, Robert Burns, Jack Duffy, Elinor Vandivere,
Geneva Mitchell
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee
into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The
cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises
and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
8. Uncivil Warriors (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Theodore Lorch, Lew Davis, Mary Loback, Bill
Engel, Ford West, Si Jenks, Charles Dorety, Jack Kenny,
Phyliss Crane, Jennifer Grey, Celeste Edwards, Wes Warner,
Lew Archer, Hubert Diltz, Charles Cross, George Grey, Jack
Rand, Harry Kenton.
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They
impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get
valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they
hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
9. Pardon My Scotch (1935) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Nat Carr, James C. Morton, Billy Gilbert, Grace Goodall
The stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that
a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The stooges
impersonate Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective buyer. Their
usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their
"scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
10. Hoi Polloi (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Harry Holmes, Robert Graves, Bud Jamison, Mary Dees, Grace
Goodall, Betty McMahon, Harriett De Bussman, Phyliss
Crane, Geneva Mitchell, Kathryn McHugh, James C. Morton,
William Irving, Arthur Rankin, Robert McKenzie, Celeste
Edwards, Blanche Payson, George B. French, Gail Arnold,
Don Roberts, Billy Mann.
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After
many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy
society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long,
and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests
have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as
gentlemen.
11. Three Little Beers (1935) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn
about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to
get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers
and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more
havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a
steep hill.
12. Ants in the Pantry (1936) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Clara Kimball Young, Harrison Greene, Bud Jamison,
Isabelle LaMal, Vesey O'Davoren, Douglass Gerrard, Anne
O'Neal, James C. Morton, Arthur Rowland, Phyliss Crane, Al
Thompson, Helen Martinez, Charles Dorety, Hilda Title,
Bert Young, Lou Davis, Ron Wilson, Robert Burns, Lynton
Brent, Arthur Thalasso, Elaine Waters, Althea Henly,
Idalyn Dupre, Stella Le Saint, Flo Promise, Gay Waters.
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting
vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are
hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a
piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes
them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the
guests on a fox hunt.
13. Movie Maniacs (1936) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Lois Lindsey, Arthur Henly, Eve Reynolds,
Kenneth Harlon, Mildred Harris, Harry Semels, Antrim
Short, Jack Kenney, Charles Dorety, Elaine Waters, Bert
Young.
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie
business ("There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who
don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make
any difference".) They sneak into a movie studio where they are
mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. after
taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to
walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the
leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram
explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the
run.
14. Half-Shot Shooters (1936) ***+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Harry Semels, John Kascier, Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone
The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly
administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they
wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their
superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the
stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a
smoke stack, he blows them up.
15. Disorder in the Court (1936) ****+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Susan Karoan, Dan Brady, Tiny Jones, Bill O'Brien, Bud
Jamison, Harry Semels, Edward LeSaint, Hank Bell, James C.
Morton
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at
a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The
stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they
discover the real murderer's identity.
16. A Pain in the Pullman (1936) ****
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Bud Jamison, James C. Morton
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an
engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the
trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor
and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and
they are literally tossed off the train.
17. False Alarms (1936) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Stanley Blystone
The stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in trouble,
they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their
jobs. Curly sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. She has two
friends who need dates, but the only way Curly can get Moe and Larry
out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The firetruck leaves
without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captains new car to make it
to the call first. They manage to get Curly and get back to the
station, but in doing so wreck the car and must leave on the run.
18. Whoops I'm an Indian (1936) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison
Set in the old west, the stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the
resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape
into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as
Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced
to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in
the hoosegow.
19. Slippery Silks (1936) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Symona Boniface, Vernon Dent, Robert Williams
The stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They
put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on
furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges
wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
20. Grips, Grunts and Groans (1937) ****+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Harrison Greene, Casey Colombo, Herb Stagman, Budd Fine,
Chuck Callahan, Blackie Whitford, Tony Chavex, Elaine
Waters, Sam Lufkin, Everett Sullivan, Bill Irving, Cy
Schindell
The stooges become trainers of "Bustoff", a champion wrestler. The
big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to
take good care of him. Instead they accidentally knock him out and
Curly must disguises himself as Bustoff and wrestle in his place.
The match doesn't go very well until Curly smells "Wild Hyacinth"
perfume on a lady fan at ringside. This drives him crazy and he
knocks out his opponent and half the people in the stadium.
21. Dizzy Doctors (1937) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : June Gittleson, Eva Murray, Ione Leslie, Vernon Dent, Bud
Jamison, Erle Bunn, Wilfred Lucas, Betty MacDonald, Louise
Carver, Frank Mills, Harley Wood, James C. Morton, A. R.
Haysel, Ella McKenzie
The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning
fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover
Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a
hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when
the head of hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they
ruined.
22. Three Dumb Clucks (1937) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lynton Brent, Frank Austin
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has
just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a
young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both
parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is
working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money,
they escape and take their father with them.
23. Goofs and Saddles (1937) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Ethan Laidlaw, Tod Lorch, Hank Mann, Stanley Blystone,
George Gray, Sam Lufkin
Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo
Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General
"Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a
saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise
themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain,
but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in
a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
24. Back to the Woods (1937) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are
banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive,
they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians
won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting
any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They
escape and another wild chase ensues.
25. Cash and Carry (1937) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lester Dorr
The stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their
dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation
they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure
is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up
in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The
president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's
operation.
26. Playing the Ponies (1937) ****
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Director: Charles Lamont
Cast : William Irving, Tiny Lipson
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for
"Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt
some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water.
The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding
Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle
leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
27. The Sitter-Downers (1937) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Marcia Healy, Betty Mack, June Gittleson, James C. Morton,
Bob McCenzie, Jack Long.
The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their
prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The
strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a
lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married,
but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The
boys have some problems with the construction, especially since
Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a
monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
28. Termites of 1938 (1938) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Dorothy Granger, Bud Jamison, Bess Flowers
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady
looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck
the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the
guest of honor, an English Lord.
29. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes
after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the
French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to
guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is
kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to
infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
30. Tassels in the Air (1938) ****+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Bess Flowers, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison
The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the
wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe
for "Omay", a famous decorator (the real Omay gets "Janitor, keep
out" painted on his door.) She hires the boys to redecorate her
house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the
real Omay shows up. Adding to the chaos is the fact that Curly goes
crazy whenever he sees tassels.
31. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lucille Lund, James C. Morton, Bud Jamison, Bobby Burns
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the
Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive
items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill.
When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only
$4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are
also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers
conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out
what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne
bottles.
32. Three Missing Links (1938) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Monty Collins, Jane Hamilton, Naba, James C. Morton
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking
the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie.
Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On
location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch
doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of
attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts
the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
33. Violent is the Word for Curly (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Eddie Featherstone, Gladys Gale, Marjorie Denn, Bud
Jamison, John T. Murray, Pat Glenson
The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow
up the car of their first customers, three famous European
professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and
wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors
are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place
on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try
to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics
programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to
an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin
basketball.
[The title is a play on "Valiant is the Word for Carrie", a popular
film of the time.]
34. Mutts to You (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Bess Flowers, Lane Chandler, Vernon Dent Bud Jamison
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep
and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in
the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise
Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop.
They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize
what happened, the result is a happy ending.
35. Flat Foot Stooges (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Chester Conklin, Dick Curtis, Lola Jensen
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull
the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern
equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs
daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious.
When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't
realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to
arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just
desserts.
36. Three Little Sew and Sews (1938) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Harry Semels, Phyliss Barry, James C. Morton, Vernon Dent,
Bud Jamison
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they
can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go
to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe
and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman,
trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the
table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows
up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb,
blowing them all to kingdom come.
37. We Want Our Mummy (1939) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, James C. Morton, Dick Curtis
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin
for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the
mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same
objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the
museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly
accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages
to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and
retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been
a midget.
38. A Ducking They Did Go (1939) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
The stooges are tricked by some con men into selling memberships to
a phony duck hunting club. To the amazement of the con men, they
sell all the memberships to the police department. When the bad
guys skip town, the stooges are stuck at a duck-less lake with a
lodge full of cops and plenty of trouble ahead. Moe and Larry stall
the cops with duck decoys while Curly searches for some real ducks.
The boys think their troubles are solved when Curly returns with a
whole flock, but it turns out the ducks belong to local farmer and
the boys leave in a hail of buckshot.
[ Ending from "A Pain in the Pullman". ]
39. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Dick Curtis, Lynon Brent, Vernon Dent
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a
saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of
the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of
stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough
money to pay off the debts of their fiancees father, who owes money
to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks
recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues,
ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
40. Saved by the Belle (1939) ****-
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Carmen LaRue, Leroy Mason
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical
country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to
the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram
instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official
thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With
the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a
firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans
to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar
by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are
spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
41. Calling all Curs (1939) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Lynton Brent
The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon,
a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the
poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their
client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work,
they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When
they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight
and they find Garcon, only to discover that "he" has had a litter of
puppies.
42. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Richard Fiske, Eddie Laughton, Eva McKenzie
The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are
down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After
some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car,
one of Curly's wishes. The car actually belongs to some con men who
have just gypped the widow Jenkins out of her land. The boys winds
up at the Mrs. Jenkins house just in time for a free meal. To repay
Mrs. Jenkins the boys try to fix her well and instead unleash an oil
geyser. Learning that Mrs. Jenkins has been swindled, the boys go
to retrieve the deed before it can be recorded. They find the bad
guys and after a wild fight recover the deed. The boys return the
deed to Mrs. Jenkins and marry her daughters; April, May and June.
43. Three Sappy People (1939) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Fiske, Lorna Gray, Don Beddoe, Bud Jamison
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the
psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires
them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for
submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their
clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured
and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
44. You Natzy Spy (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Don Beddoe
In this satire of the Nazis the stooges are paperhangers in the
country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the
king, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid
enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a
Field Marshall and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After
successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the
boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
45. Rockin Through the Rockies (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Linda Winters, Dorothy Appleby, Lorna Gray, Kathryn
Sheldon
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When
hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must
contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians.
After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their
problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
46. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Symona Boniface, Bud Jamison, Bess Flowers, Eddie Laughton
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to
fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical
system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One
memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television
broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the
set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape
through a magicians trap door.
47. From Nurse to Worse (1940) *****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Dorothy Appleby
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on
Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put
Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him
act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to
perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to
escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken
to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to
a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and
knock him into wet cement.
48. Nutty But Nice (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent
The stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try
and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a
banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to
cheer up the girl, the stooges go out looking for the father and by
a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The
villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing
man.
49. How High is Up (1940) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bruce Bennett, Edmund Cobb, Vernon Dent
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under
their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching
holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're
caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as
riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their
ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the
building and they must parachute off the building to escape the
wrath of the boss.
50. No Census, No Feeling (1940) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Symona Boniface, Max Davidson, Bruce Bennett,
Elinor Vandivere
The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion
looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a
bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting
concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and
shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a
football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up
in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the
other players in pursuit.
51. Cuckoo Cavaliers (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dorothy Appleby
The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business
opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first
customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the
stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds
out, the boys must leave on the run.
52. Boobs in Arms (1940) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Fiske, Evelyn Young, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted
into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of
their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the
same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are
sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must
rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas.
At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
53. So Long Mr. Chumps (1941) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Bruce Bennet, Robert Williams
The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and
return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers
them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive
ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancee is
honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they
can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man
and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con
man and on the way himself to the slammer.
54. Dutiful But Dumb (1941) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, James C. Morton, Bruce Bennett,
Chetster Conklin
The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good
picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are
sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun.
In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the
boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request
is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the
soldiers are asleep and the stooges make their escape.
55. All the Worlds a Stooge (1941) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lelah Taylor, Emory Parnell, Bud Jamison, Symona Boniface,
Olaf Hytten, Richard Fiske
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe
impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the
run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems
the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society
friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel.
Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her
friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes
after them with an ax.
56. I'll Never Heil Again (1941) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Mary Ainslee, John Kascier, Vernon Dent, Bud Jaimison
A follow up to "You Nazty Spy", the stooges have taken over the
country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a
Field Marshall and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are
planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly
consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets
into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates.
All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the
stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
57. An Ache in Every Stake (1941) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Gino Corrado, Bess Flowers,
Symona Boniface
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the
top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is
trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their
customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and
prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is
for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake
explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a
hurry.
58. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dorothy Appleby, Mary Ainslee, Etheldera Leopold, Symona
Boniface, Vernon Dent.
The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they
didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into
marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At
the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are
pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges so they plot to
get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer
convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges
will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just
that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls
decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot.
[ Dance teacher footage from "Hoi Polloi" ]
59. Some More of Samoa (1941) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Louise Carver, Symona Boniface, Mary Ainslee
The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to
find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail
to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they
arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless
Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The stooges escape with
the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with
their prize.
60. Loco Boy Makes Good (1942) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dorothy Appleby, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Robert
Williams, John Tyrel
The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a
bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips
as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is
about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The stooges decide to
help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and
stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the
place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put
on a big show with a famous critic in attendance. Their corny act
goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat
and becomes a sensation and the place is a success.
61. Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Monty Collins, Vernon Dent, Ernie Adams
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time
to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a
phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the
treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention,
they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners
try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and,
although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
62. What's the Matador (1942) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Suzanne Kaaven, Harry Burns, Dorothy Appleby, Eddie
Laughton
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico.
After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a
lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her
house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her
jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the
fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the
matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the
attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull
out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
[ I never understood how the bull costume could have fit in that
suitcase. ]
63. Matri-Phony (1942) ***+
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Director: Harry Edwards
Cast : Vernon Dent, Marjorie Deanne
The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor
Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed
women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a
pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find
Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where
the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken
the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the
palace guards as they try to escape.
64. Three Smart Saps (1942) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison
The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden.
When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and
their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to
go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison
where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After
swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid
camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks
behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all
ends well.
65. Even as I.O.U (1942) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Ruth Skinner, Stanley Blystone, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison,
Heine Conklin, Jack Gardner, Billie Bletcher
A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home
and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank
and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins
and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell
them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when
Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
66. Sock-a-Bye-Baby (1942) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Bud Jamison
The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep.
When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the
boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is
the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily
with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off
disguised as bushes.
67. They Stooge to Conga (1943) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large
house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They
manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and
then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
[ One of the most violent of all the shorts, especially the scene
where Curly spikes Moe in the eye. The stooges manage a maximum of
destruction in the shortest time. ]
68. Dizzy Detectives (1943) ***+
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Director: Jules Whites
Cast : Bud Jamison
The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious
burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill,
the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job.
The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques
store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla
owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a
wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.
[ The carpentry scenes are taken from "Pardon My Scotch". ]
69. Spook Louder (1943) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Stanley Blystone, Symona Boniface, William Kelley
The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They
have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric
inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist
goes to Washington to demonstrate his death-ray machine to the
government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend
with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
70. Back From the Front (1943) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship
sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German
battleship and by various means, such as Moe disguising himself as
Hitler, and Curly and Larry as Goering and Goebbels, manage to
capture the enemy ship.
71. Three Little Twerps (1943) ****
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Director: Harry Edwards
Cast : Chester Conklin, Hienie Conklin, Stanley Blystone, Bud
Jamison.
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover
that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When
trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out
backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe
and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus
manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus.
What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu
spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his
own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
72. Higher Than a Kite (1943) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Dick Curtis
The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England.
After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their
choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the
enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly
disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive
fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly
steal the secret plans from the high command.
73. I Can Hardly Wait (1943) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Bud Jamison
The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep
when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to
remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to
the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy its
going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake.
Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to
the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth.
74. Dizzy Pilots (1943) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Fiske
The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish
building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the
draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the
boys are drafted into the army where they have trouble with a tough
drill sergeant.
[ The army footage is taken from "Boobs in Arms" ]
75. Phony Express (1943) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Chester Conklin, Snub Pollard, Bud Jamison
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for
vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in
Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be
three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard
the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the
gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys
go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and
recover the money.
76. A Gem of a Jam (1943) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Stanley Blystone
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts,
Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention
after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops.
Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded
crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a
passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store
room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
77. Crash Goes the Hash (1944) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Dick Curtis, Symona Boniface
The stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to
get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local
socialite. The boys disguise as servants and infiltrate a party
being in thrown in the honor of the prince. The stooges ruin the
party, but save the day as they expose the prince as crook who is
planning to rob the house. Their boss is so grateful for the expose
that he gives the boys a bonus and the rich lady decides to marry
Curly!
78. Busy Buddies (1944) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Fred Kelsey
The stooges run a small restaurant, and must come up with some quick
money to pay off a pie dealer who's wares they ruined. They enter
Curly in a milking contest at the county fair, but his technique
leaves something to be desired, and he quickly falls behind the
champ. Moe and try to help by putting on a cow suit and pouring
milk from a concealed bottle, but when their cheating is exposed,
they must leave on the run.
79. The Yokes on Me (1944) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Bob McKenzie, Emmett Lynn
Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit"
by becoming farmers. After paying $1000 and throwing in their car,
the boys are owners of a run down farm, which lacks any livestock.
After capturing an escaped ostrich, they decide to carve jack-o-
lanterns for profit and then must contend with some Japanese who
have escaped from a relocation center. The stooges become heroes by
capturing the escapees, with the help of explosive eggs laid by the
ostrich who had swallowed some blasting powder.
[ This short is rarely seen on broadcast TV because of its obvious
WW II racial overtones. ]
80. Idle Roomers (1944) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Duke York, Vernon Dent
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side
show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly
escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to
calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the
stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in
an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
81. Gents Without Cents (1944) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Lindsay, Laverne, and Betty
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They
meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a
big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast
doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole
show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls
and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
[ Their act at the shipyard contains the classic "Niagara Falls"
bit; "Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch..." ]
82. No Dough Boys (1944) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre
The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as
magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant
with their Japanese uniforms on causing the proprietor to mistake
them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through
a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken
for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The
stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and
jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki"
show up, the boys are exposed and impostors, but after a wild fight
manage to capture all the Axis spies.
83. Three Pests in a Mess (1945) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Vic Travers, Snub Pollard, Christyne
MacIntyre, Brian Ohara
The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their
preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have
to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks
overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners.
When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods
store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real
person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but
the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners,
all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of
the stooges.
84. Booby Dupes (1945) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Rebel Randally, Vernon Dent
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the
middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300
for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon
falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys
also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal
some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered
rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the
sky.
85. Idiots Deluxe (1945) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Paul Kruger
Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe
relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his
nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and
Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of
their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car
into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes
after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
86. If a Body Meets a Body (1945) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Theodore Lorch, Fred Kelsey
Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the
boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.
They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer
has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All
the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police
investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle
was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull
and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the
stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the
will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven
cents.
87. Micro-Phonies (1945) *****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Gino Corrado, Symona Boniface, Fred
Kelsey, Sam Flint, Chester Conklin
The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has
just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name.
She wants to hide her singing career from her disapproving society
parents while auditioning for Mrs. Bixby's "Krispy Krunchy" radio
program. After a run-in with a pompous violinist, the boys find the
record and Curly starts mimicking to it, dressed as a women. Mrs.
Bixby witnesses their performance and is impressed enough to hire
"Senorita Cucaracha" (Curly) and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" (Moe and
Larry) for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises
to "sing" at a Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe
smashes the record over Curly's head. The real singer tries to help
by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is
discovered and the stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records.
88. Beer Barrel Polecats (1946) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Robert Williams, Vernon Dent, Bruce Bennett
The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in
jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns
into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under
his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison
the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the
rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long
gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
[ A pretty good short, but only because of heavy use of footage from
"In the Sweet Pie and Pie" and "Goodbye Mr. Chumps". ]
89. A Bird in the Head (1946) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Robert Williams, Frank Lackteen
The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor
Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his
experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a
gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads
him to select Curly (for obvious reasons) as the perfect donor. The
stooges manage to foil the madman with the help of the Gorilla who
befriends Curly
90. Uncivil Warbirds (1946) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Faye WIlliams, Eleanor Counts, Marilyn Johnson, Maury
Dexter, Ted Lorch, Al Rosen, Blackie Whiteford
The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing
uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be
loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly
is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The
boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
91. The Three Troubledoers (1946) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Dick Curtis, Vernon Dent
Set in the old west, the stooges become marshalls in a town with a
high death rate for lawmen. The boys set out prevent a marriage
between the villain Blackie and the heroine Nell, who's father
Blackie has kidnapped. The stooges manage to defeat Blackie and his
henchmen, but when Nell's father learns she promised to marry Curly
if he could save her, he decides death would be a preferable fate.
92. Monkey Businessmen (1946) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Fred Kelsey, Snub Pollard, Jean
Donahue, Cy Schindell
The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a
rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home
they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for
everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings
on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another
patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars.
93. Three Loan Wolves (1946) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Beverley Warren, Harold Brauer
Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have
three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop, owed money to
the gashouse protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To
complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in the shop as part of a
plan to sell a phony diamond and the stooges wind up caring for the
kid. The stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish
telling the story, the kid goes off to find his real mother.
94. G.I. Wanna Go Home (1946) ***-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Judy Malcom, Ethelread Leopold, Doris Houck, Symona
Boniface
The stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their
fiancees, but find they have been dispossessed and the wedding is
off until they find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant
apartment so they set up housekeeping in a vacant lot. Their
housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their new
home with a tractor. The stooges then build a house of their own,
but the girls aren't impressed with the one room mansion and walk
out on them.
95. Rhythm and Weep (1946) ***-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Jack Norton, Doria Patrice, Ruth Godfrey, Nita Bieber
The stooges are actors who can't seem to find a job, so they decide
to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they
meet three girl dancers with the same idea. Before they can jump,
they meet a millionaire Broadway producer who hires them all for his
next show. The rehearsal goes so well that he doubles their salary,
but it all comes to naught when they discover that the "producer" is
an escaped patient from Dr. Dippy's retreat.
96. Three Little Pirates (1946) ****
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Robert Stevens, Dorothy DeHaven, Vernon Dent, Christyne
McIntyre
The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's
Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the
governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to
journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is
fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie
the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with
Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts
the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black
Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over
as ruler of the island.
97. Half-Wits Holiday (1947) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Barbara Slater, Ted Lorch, Emil Sitka, Symona
Boniface
A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the stooges
into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter,
the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many
frustrating attempts, he introduces the stooges into society at a
fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon
degenerates into a wild pie fight.
[ A remake of "Hoi Polloi" with lots of footage from the original.
Except for a cameo in "Hold That Lion", this was Curly's last
appearance in a stooge short. ]
98. Fright Night (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Cy Shindell, Dick Wesell, Harold Brauer, Claire Carleton
The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet
their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to
have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to
play along. They try to soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food
and having him spend time with their friend Kitty. The fight gets
canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two
boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken
hand for the opponent. The stooges think they've put one over on
the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner them in a deserted
warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks
and get a reward.
99. Out West (1947) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jack Norman, Jock Mahoney, Vernon Dent, Christyne
McIntyre, Stanley Blystone, George Chesbro, Frank Ellis
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with
some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and
their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the
Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the
stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
100. Hold That Lion (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Curly
Howard
The stooges are gypped out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a
crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and
corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the
train.
[ Curly Howard has a cameo role as a snoring passenger. ]
101. Brideless Groom (1947) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Emil Sitka, Dee Green, Christyne McIntyre, Doris Colleen
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six
o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his
repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time.
When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance,
they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp
marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man.
102. Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Dee Green, Harold Baur
The stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint
finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a
fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their
problems. The bank robber conveniently ducks into their shop and
leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend fails
to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight
ensues. The boys miss out on the reward but wind up with the
crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors.
103. All Gummed Up (1947) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Emil Sitka
The stooges run a drug store and are about to have their lease taken
away by the Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint
kicks his wife out for being old, the stooges try to help her by
inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction
turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the
boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They
agree, but after he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and
the boys leave on the run.
104. Shivering Sherlocks (1948) ***
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Duke York, Kenneth
McDonald, Frank Lacteen
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops
as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed
but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile,
their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the
boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold.
The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct
Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
105. Pardon My Clutch (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Matt McHugh, Emil Sitka
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they
can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car
won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car
collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium.
Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back,
only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.
106. Square Heads of the Round Table (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Phil
Van Zandt
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges decide to help their friend
Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At
night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick
the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon,
the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of
the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out
well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
107. Fiddlers Three (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Virginia Hunter, Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask
the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees,
but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This
news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the
Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the
Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose
his evil doings.
108. Heavenly Daze (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and
Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to
prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a
fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp
sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for
the fires below anyway. But no, its only a dream and Shemp set the
bed on fire while smoking in bed.
109. Hot Scots (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Herb Evans, Ted Lorch, Charles Knight
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking
they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When
they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where
valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to
get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose
the servants as the crooks.
110. I'm a Monkey's Uncle (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dee Green, Virginia Hunter
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various
misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with
prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their
women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with
a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
111. Mummies Dummies (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Dee Green, Ralph Dunn, Phil Van Zandt
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they
unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp
the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be
executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the
King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a
corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his
daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry
select Shemp to be the groom.
112. Crime on Their Hands (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Charles C. Wilson,
Lester Allen
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an
anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond,
the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They
find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which
was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond
out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
113. The Ghost Talks (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast :
The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night
are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky
old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who
has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts
to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off
together.
114. Who Done it? (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Emil Sitka
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing
millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion
confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges
vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the
missing man.
115. Hocus Pocus (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Jimmie Lloyd
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is
confined to wheelchair. What they don't is that Mary is only faking
her disability to swindle the insurance company. When the boys
witness a hypnotist, "The Great Svengarlic", doing his act on the
street, they think he might be able to hypnotize Mary so she can
walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized
into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they
come out of their trance and realize their predicament, they fall
into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her wheelchair just as
the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check.
116. Fuelin Around (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre,
Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist,
Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is
mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and
take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce
the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction
they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real
professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help
them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
117. Malice in the Palace (1949) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : George Lewis, Franck Lacteen, Vernon Dent
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys
set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn
from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the
contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they
disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the
diamond.
118. Vagabond Loafers (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Symona Boniface,
Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Herbet Evans
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy
mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical
and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their
incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting
stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
119. Dunked in the Deep (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Gene Roth
The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor
"Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on
the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some
stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After
a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
120. Punchy Cow Punchers (1950) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Dick Wessel, Kenneth
MacDonald, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka
Set in the old west, the stooges are three soldiers assigned to go
undercover and spy on an outlaw gang that's terrorizing a nearby
town. The bad guys have the Arizona Kid locked up, so the boys set
about rescuing him with the help of beautiful Nell, his girl. They
free the kid, and he rides to summon help. The stooges, with the
help of Nell, manage to subdue the bad guys before the kid arrives
with the cavalry.
121. Hugs and Mugs (1950) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kathleen O'Malley, Nanette Bordeaux,
Emil Sitka
The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a
stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that
the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the
stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The stooges defeat the
bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace
to its rightful owner.
122. Dopey Dicks (1950) ***
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Stanley Price, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the
clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion
where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human
head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for
the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a
car driven by the headless robot.
123. Love at First Bite (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Yvette Reynard, Marie Monteil
The stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the
military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get
drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement.
After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands
them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
124. Self Made Maids (1950) **+
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : [ No supporting cast, the stooges play all parts ]
The stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella",
"Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so
the stooges tickle him into submission.
125. Three Hams on Rye (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Christyne McIntyre
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play.
They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail
to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then
Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a
prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the
rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a
serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the
boys are redeemed.
126. Studio Stoops (1950) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre, Stanley
Price
The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their
first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty
starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their
story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come
to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an
extending telephone.
127. Slap Happy Sleuths (1950) ***
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone, Gene Roth, Nanette
Bordeaux?, Emil Sitka
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The
company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so
the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
128. A Snitch in Time (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Jean Willes
The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture
they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated
when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They
defeat the bad guys with the help of the varnished furniture which
sticks the head crook to a chair.
129. Three Arabian Nuts (1951) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt, Dick Curtis, Wesely Bly
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a
magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after
the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the
"genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
130. Baby Sitters' Jitters (1951) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Lynn Davis, David Windsor, Margie Liszt, Myron Healy
The stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by
becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from
her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When
The husband steals the baby, the stooges set out to find their
missing charge and return him to his mother. The boys confront the
husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is
re-united.
131. Don't Throw That Knife (1951) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Jean Willes
The stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a
lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the
husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and
after dodging some knives, leave on the run.
132. Scrambled Brains (1951) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Babe London, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst
vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe
and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover
he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the
wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get
even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding
Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be
the man they just fought with.
133. Merry Mavericks (1951) ***
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Dan Harvey, Mary Martin, Paul Campbell
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage
to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding
some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an
Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as
ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock
them out.
134. The Tooth Will Out (1951) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Margie Liszt
The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a
practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's
toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys
must leave on the run.
135. Hu La La (1951) ****
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : Jean Willes, Joy Windsor, Kenneth McDonald
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a
tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear
in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor
who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat
the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed
idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
136. The Pest Man Wins (1951) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Margie Liszt, Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent,
Helen Dickson, Symona Boniface (stock footage)
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting
vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are
hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt
the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
[ Basically a remake of "Ants in the Pantry". ]
137. A Missed Fortune (1952) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Nanette Bordeaux, Vivian Mason
Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the
Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy
suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are
pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the
check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions.
[ Basically a remake of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb". ]
138. Listen Judge (1952) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Kitty McHugh
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a
charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind
up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting
to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are
discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political
supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
139. Corny Casanovas (1952) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Connie Cezan
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same
girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of
them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at
the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the
others of making time with "his" girl. The stooges knock each other
senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.
140. He Cooked His Goose (1952) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time
trying to steal Shemp's fiancee. When Moe's become suspicious,
Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job
as a door to door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment,
and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancee to go there and catch
him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and
lets Moe deliver some punishment.
[ A departure from the regular format. The stooges work as seperate
characters and Larry has the main role. ]
141. Gents in a Jam (1952) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : David Bond, Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Kitty
McHugh, Mickey Simpson, Danny Sue Nolan
Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke
and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs.
McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune.
The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp
accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the
middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the
strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were
childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of
the bucks once again.
142. Three Dark Horses (1952) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential
convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his
candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors
sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the
boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The
stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote
for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his
muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild
fight.
143. Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo (1952) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Patricia Wright, Victoria Horne
Larry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to
marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her
sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with
"Carry", an imaginary giant canary. Moe is an investigator from the
railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen from a moving
train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with
both women, but still prefers his imaginary canary.
[ One of the strangest stooge shorts. Larry does a good impression
of Marlon Brando. ]
144. Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Connie Cezan, John Merton, Jack Kenny
The stooges escape from jail to prevent their newly rich dad from
marrying Daisy, a gold-digger after his money. Shemp looks like
dad, so he impersonates him and marries Daisy. What the stooges
don't know is that Daisy is in cahoots with some crooks, and they
plan to bump off her new husband. The boys foil the crook's plan
and take Pa home to Ma.
[ A remake of "Three Dumb Clucks", with Shemp, instead of Curly,
playing both father and son. ]
145. Booty and the Beast (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Curly Howard (stock
footage)
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what
they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the
boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize
what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on
the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the
booty.
[ Lots of footage from "Hold that Lion", including Curly's cameo
appearance. ]
146. Loose Loot (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Tom Kennedy, Emil Sitka
The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the
executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with
the money. The stooges trail him to a a theater where they engage
in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance.
[ The opening scenes are taken from "Hold that Lion". ]
147. Tricky Dicks (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Benny Rubin, Connie Cezan, Ferris Taylor, Phil Arnold,
Murray Alper
The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They
unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other
suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly
destroys the police station.
148. Spooks (1953) ***-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy, Norma Randall
The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The
boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad
scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a
gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.
[ One of two stooge shorts filmed in 3D. ]
149. Pardon my Backfire (1953) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold, Fred Kelsey
The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry
their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the
boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their
sweethearts.
[ One of two stooge shorts filmed in 3D. ]
150. Rip Sew and Stich (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Arnold
The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors.
A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a
safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges
capture him and get his bankroll.
[ A remake of "Sing a Song of Six Pants". ]
151. Bubble Trouble (1953) ***-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka
The stooges are pharmacists who invent a fountain of youth formula
that can turn old people young. They turn an old lady into a
beautiful young woman, but when her husband takes the formula it
turns him into a gorilla.
[ A remake of "All Gummed Up", with lots of reused footage. ]
152. Goof on the Roof (1953) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Frank Mitchell, Maxine Gates
The stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friends house
while he goes off to get married. At first they only wreck the
place a little bit, but when they try to install a television
antenna, total destruction ensues. When their friend returns with
his bride, she's so shocked she walks out on him.
153. Income Tax Sappy (1954) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Nanette Bordeaux, Margie Liszt
Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating
the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors.
They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the
goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
154. Musty Musketeers (1954) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt, Virginia Hunter
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts,
but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets
married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician
who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges
help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his
henchmen in a sword fight.
[ A remake of "Fiddlers Three". ]
155. Pals and Gals (1954) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Norman Willis, George Chesebroo, Christyne McIntyre,
Vernon Dent
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul
of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad
guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to
rescue them and save the day.
[ A remake of "Out West", with Nell's sisters, instead of the Arizona
Kid, being locked up in the cellar. ]
156. Knutzy Knights (1954) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Phil Van Zandt,
Vernon Dent
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the
Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only
problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is
plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the
plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
[ A remake of "Square Heads of the Round Table". ]
157. Shot in the Frontier (1954) **+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka
Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the
Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls
the stooges are courting.
158. Scotched in Scotland (1954) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Charles Knight, Christyne McIntyre
Would be detectives, the stooges get a job guarding a Scotch castle
while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing
the castle of its valuables. Though they do their best to frighten
the boys off, the stooges prevail and expose the crooked goings-on.
[ A remake of "Hot Scots". ]
159. Fling in the Ring (1955) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Wessel, Claire Carleton, Frank Sully
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they
bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big
Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose
their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The
fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry
Big Mike and his goons.
[ A remake of "Fright Night". ]
160. Of Cash and Hash (1955) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Frank Lacteen
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops
as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed
and go back to their jobs in a Cafe. When one of the robbers comes
into the Cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend
Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks
are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the stooges must
rescue her.
[ A remake of "Shivering Sherlocks".]
161. Gypped in the Penthouse (1955) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Jean Willes
Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a
diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling
their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to
the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style
revenge.
162. Bedlam in Paradise (1955) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Slyvia Lewis Symona Boniface
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and
Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to
prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil,
from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under
whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans
and makes it through the pearly gates.
[ A remake of "Heavenly Daze ".]
163. Stone Age Romeos (1955) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Dee Green, Nancy Saunders, Virginia Hunter
The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that
cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film
purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from
other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward,
until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the
film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
[ The stone age footage is reused from "I'm a Monkey's Uncle". ]
164. Wham Bam Slam (1955) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Matt McHugh, Alyn Loar, Dora Revier, Wanda Perry
Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend
Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home-
made remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude suggests they buy
his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp on a trip to the
country. The car won't start, and the trip never gets off the
ground, but not to worry, Shemp is cured by all the excitement.
[ A remake of "Pardon my Backfire".]
165. Hot Ice (1955) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Barbara Bartay
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking
they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When
they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the
boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp
accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of
candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil
them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
[ A remake of "Crime on Their Hands", with Scotland Yard footage from
"Hot Scots". ]
166. Blunder Boys (1955) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Kenneth MacDonald
The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest
possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to
track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a
woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through
their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the
force and wind up as ditch diggers.
167. Husbands Beware (1956) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Dee Green, Emil Sitka, Lou Leonard,
Maxine Gates
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six
o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his
repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time.
When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance,
they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp
marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that
there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into
marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters.
[ A remake of "Brideless Groom".]
168. Creeps (1956) ***
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Director: Jules White
The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night
are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky
old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no
intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take
the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's
revealed that the stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their
"sons" (also played by the stooges.)
[ A remake of "The Ghost Talks".]
169. Flagpole Jitters (1956) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Beverly Thomas, Barbara Bartay, Mary Ainslee, Bonnie
Mensunm Dan Harvey, David Bond, Frank Sully, Dick
Alexander, Vernon Dent
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is
confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope
to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist,
doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are
hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground.
When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament
they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning
reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
[ A remake of "Hocus Pocus".]
170. For Crimin Out Loud (1956) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Ralph Dunn, Barbara Bartay, Christyne McIntyre, Emil
Sitka, Duke York, Charles Knight
The stooges are private detectives hired to protect a rich
politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his
spooky mansion confronting various villains and a dangerous dame.
The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and
find the missing man.
[ A remake of "Who Done it?". This was the last short with new
footage of Shemp. ]
171. Rumpus in the Harem (1956) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, George Lewis, Helen Jay, Harriette Tarler,
Diana Darvin, Suzanne Ridgeway, Ruth Godfrey White
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys
need money to pay their fiancee's taxes, or the girls will be sold
as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the
boys to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond. The stooges
decide to return the diamond to the government and get the reward
money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the
contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they
disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the
diamond.
[ A remake of "Malice in the Palace". Joe Palma (face hidden)
stands in for Shemp. ]
172. Hot Stuff (1956) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Christyne McIntyre, Connie Cezan, Evelyn
Lovequist, Andri Pola, Vernon Dent, Harold Brower, Phil
Van Zandt
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor
Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for
the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to
the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket
fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to
pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor
and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape,
using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
[ A remake of "Fuelin Around". Joe Palma (face hidden) stands in
for Shemp. ]
173. Scheming Schemers (1956) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Symona Boniface,
Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, H. Coons
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing
in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage
to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole
party degenerates into a pie fight.
[ A remake of "Vagabond Loafers", with footage from "A Plumbing we
will go" and "Half-Wits Holiday". Joe Palma (face hidden) stands in
for Shemp. ]
174. Commotion on the Ocean (1956) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Gene Roth, Harriette Taylor, Emil Sitka
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming
stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a
freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed
some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him.
After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
[ A remake of "Dunked in the Deep". Joe Palma (face hidden) stands
in for Shemp. ]
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175. Hoofs and Goofs (1957) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Benny Rubin, Hariette Tayler, Tony the Wonder Horse
Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been
reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must
conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more
complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up
to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he
tells her he dreamed she was a horse.
176 Muscle up a Little Closer (1957) **+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Maxine Gates, Matt Murphy, Ruth Godfrey White, Hariette
Tayler
Joe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers the
engagement ring which has disappeared. The stooges suspect the ring
was stolen by Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory
they do. They confront Elmo in the company gym, but he's too tough
for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she gets Elmo
to confess and return the ring.
177. A Merry Mix-up (1957) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Nannette Bordeaux, Jean Carmen, Ruth Godfrey White,
Suzanne Ridgeway, Hariette Tayler, Diana Darrin
The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were
separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and
troubles for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in
the end.
178. Space Ship Sappy (1957) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Benny Rubin, Emil Sitka, Lorraine Crawford, Hariette
Tayler, Marilyn Hanold, Doreen Woodbury
An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining himself and
his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go
exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to
devour them. The stooges escape and take off in the spaceship which
goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the
scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the
stooges win the prize as the biggest liars in the world.
179. Guns A-Poppin (1957) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Frank Sully, Joe Palma, Vernon Dent
Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It
seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so
Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation.
After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin
became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped
outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have
paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and
Joe with an ax.
[ A partial remake of "Idiots Deluxe". ]
180. Horsing Around (1957) **+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Hariette Tayler, Tony the Wonder Horse
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care
of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When
they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about
to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The
stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.
181. Rusty Romeos (1957) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Connie Cezan
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same
girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of
them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at
the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the
others of making time with "his" girl. The gold-digger gets it in
the end (literally) with tacks shot from a repeating rifle.
[ A remake of "Corny Casanovas". ]
182. Outer Space Jitters (1957) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Dan Blocker, Phil Van Zandt, Joe
Palma, Harriette Tayler, Diana Darrin, Arline Hunter
The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus,
where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the
earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're
going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to
the stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime
story to their kids (also played by the stooges) while they wait for
the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks
like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry.
[ Dan Blocker of "Bonanza" fame plays a zombie. ]
183. Quiz Whiz (1958) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Bill Brawer, Emil
Sitka
Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by
some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad
guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and
becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the
plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are
in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil
the plan and recover Joe's money.
184. Fifi Blows Her Top (1958) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vanda Dupre, Phil Van Zandt, Harriette Tarler, Joe Palma,
Hariette Tayler, Christyne McIntyre (stock footage)
The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After
they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he
left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is
that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband
turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about
his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe.
[ Some reused footage from "Love at First Bite". ]
185. Pies and Guys (1958) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Helen Dickson,
Hariette Tayler, John Kascier, Symona Boniface (stock
footage)
A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into
gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their
society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old
habits and a wild pie fight ensues.
[ A remake of "Half-Wits Holiday. ]
186. Sweet and Hot (1958) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Muriel Landers
Nightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny to join the
act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of
people. They take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and
the act is a success.
187. Flying Saucer Daffy (1958) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Harriette Tayler, Emil Sitka, Gail Bonney, Bek Nelson,
Diana Darrin
Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate which Moe and
Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying
saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the picture is
proven to be phony, they're hauled off to Jail. Joe then gets a
picture of a real spaceship and this time he gets the fame and
fortune, while Moe and Larry wind up in a sanitarium.
188. Oils Well That Ends Well (1958) ***
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Director: Jules White
The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head
for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they
discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are
solved.
[ Oil gusher footage from "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise". ]
189. Triple Crossed (1958) **+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Diana Darrin, Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time
trying to steal Joe's fiancee. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry
attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan backfires when
Joe catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.
[ A remake of "He Cooked His Goose". ]
190. Sappy Bullfighters (1959) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Greta Thyssen, George Lewis
Stranded in Mexico, the stooges need a job and a pretty actress
friend gets them an engagement at the Plaza de Toros. When they
accidentally switch suitcases with that of their friend, they must
sneak into her house to retrieve their own and are confronted by her
jealous husband who vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the
arena where they perform a comedy bullfight (Joe is the matador, Moe
and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants
to let a real bull into the ring. Joe knocks the bull out with a
head butt and becomes a hero.
[ A remake of "What's the Matador". ]