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The Three Stooges - Shorts Part 1

Stooge Shorts [Mitch Shapiro Rev. 1.0 4/95]

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* Part 1 Introduction* Part 2 1934 - 1940 (Moe, Larry, Curly

* Part 3 1941 - 1947 (Moe, Larry, Curly)

* Part 4 1947 - 1952 (Moe, Larry, Shemp)

* Part 5 1953 - 1959 (Moe, Larry, Shemp), (Moe, Larry, Joe)

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Introduction

This filmography of the Three Stooges Columbia short films is based onnotes I took as a dedicated stooge watcher during the seventies. Over aperiod of several years I saw all of the 190 shorts and recorded adescription of each film in a notebook. I've now transcibed my material toelectronic form and have uploaded it for your reading pleasure.

I've included some additional cast information from the book "Movie ComedyTeams" by Leonard Maltin (1974) and have added comments following some ofthe descriptions. I've also rated each short on a 1-5 star basis.

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* Part 1 Introduction

* Part 2 1934 - 1940 (Moe, Larry, Curly* Part 3 1941 - 1947 (Moe, Larry, Curly)


* Part 5 1953 - 1959 (Moe, Larry, Shemp), (Moe, Lary, Joe)

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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


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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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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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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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




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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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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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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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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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 Nazty Spy (1940) ***+

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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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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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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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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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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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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.






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53. So Long Mr. Chumps (1941) ***+

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ]






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98. Fright Night (1947) ***+

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Hula La La (1951) ****

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ]






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144. Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953) ***+

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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". ]




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