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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, 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
Moe is a boxing promoter looking for a good fighter. Curly is a
mild-mannered waiter who goes crazy whenever he hears "Pop Goes the
Weasel". Larry is a violinist recruited to play the tune. Curly
becomes a great fighter and gets a championship match. Things look
bad when Larry's violin is smashed, but everything turns out fine
when Larry delivers the music by driving a truck through the arena
wall.
3. Men in Black (1934) ***+
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Director: Raymond McCarey
Cast : Dell Henderson, Jeanie Roberts, Ruth Hiatt, Joe Fine,
Irene Coleman, Billy Gilbert, Little Billy, Neal Burns,
Arthur West, Bud Jamison, Hank Mann, Joe Mills, Bob
Callahan, Phyllis Crane, Carmen Andre, Betty Andre, Helen
Splane, Kay Hughes, Eve Reynolds, Charles King, Eve
Kimberly, Lucille Watson, Billie Stockton, Arthur Ranking,
Charles Dorety
The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt
patients and staff alike.
[The title is a play on "Men in White", a popular film of the time.
Nominated for "Best Short Subject" in 1934. ]
4. Three Little Pigskins (1934) ****-
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Director: Raymond McCarey
Cast : Lucille Ball, Gertie Green, Phyllis Green, Walter Long,
Joe Young, Milt Douglas, Harry Bowen, Lynton Brent, Bud
Jamison, Dutch Hendrian, Charles Dorett, William Irving,
Joe Levine, Alex Hirschfield, Billy Wolfstone, Bobby
Burns, Jimmie Philips, Johnny Korcsier.
The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of
Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team,
they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a
nice part as a gun moll.
5. Horses Collars (1935) ***+
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Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast : Dorothy Kent, Fred Kohler, Fred Kelsey
The stooges are private detectives in the old west trying to help a
girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU
from the villains wallet and then from a safe meet with problems
until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out
all the bad guys.
6. Restless Knights (1935) ***+
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Director: Charles Lamont
Cast : Geneva Mitchell, Stanley Blystone, Walter Brennan, Chris
Franke, George Baxter, Bud O'Neill, James Howard, Jack
Duffy, Ernie Young, Lynton Brent, Bob Burns, William
Irving, Joe Perry, Dutch Hendrian, George Speer, Bert
Young, Billy Franey, Al Thompson.
Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and
vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but
are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the
evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up
knocking each other out.
7. Pop Goes the Easel (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Leo White, Robert Burns, Jack Duffy, Elinor Vandivere,
Geneva Mitchell
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee
into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The
cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises
and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
8. Uncivil Warriors (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Theodore Lorch, Lew Davis, Mary Loback, Bill
Engel, Ford West, Si Jenks, Charles Dorety, Jack Kenny,
Phyliss Crane, Jennifer Grey, Celeste Edwards, Wes Warner,
Lew Archer, Hubert Diltz, Charles Cross, George Grey, Jack
Rand, Harry Kenton.
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They
impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get
valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they
hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
9. Pardon My Scotch (1935) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Nat Carr, James C. Morton, Billy Gilbert, Grace Goodall
The stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that
a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The stooges
impersonate Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective buyer. Their
usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their
"scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
10. Hoi Polloi (1935) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Harry Holmes, Robert Graves, Bud Jamison, Mary Dees, Grace
Goodall, Betty McMahon, Harriett De Bussman, Phyliss
Crane, Geneva Mitchell, Kathryn McHugh, James C. Morton,
William Irving, Arthur Rankin, Robert McKenzie, Celeste
Edwards, Blanche Payson, George B. French, Gail Arnold,
Don Roberts, Billy Mann.
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After
many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy
society party. The stooges new found manners don't last very long,
and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests
have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as
gentlemen.
11. Three Little Beers (1935) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn
about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to
get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers
and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more
havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a
steep hill.
12. Ants in the Pantry (1936) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Clara Kimball Young, Harrison Greene, Bud Jamison,
Isabelle LaMal, Vesey O'Davoren, Douglass Gerrard, Anne
O'Neal, James C. Morton, Arthur Rowland, Phyliss Crane, Al
Thompson, Helen Martinez, Charles Dorety, Hilda Title,
Bert Young, Lou Davis, Ron Wilson, Robert Burns, Lynton
Brent, Arthur Thalasso, Elaine Waters, Althea Henly,
Idalyn Dupre, Stella Le Saint, Flo Promise, Gay Waters.
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting
vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are
hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a
piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes
them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the
guests on a fox hunt.
13. Movie Maniacs (1936) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Lois Lindsey, Arthur Henly, Eve Reynolds,
Kenneth Harlon, Mildred Harris, Harry Semels, Antrim
Short, Jack Kenney, Charles Dorety, Elaine Waters, Bert
Young.
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie
business ("There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who
don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make
any difference".) They sneak into a movie studio where they are
mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. after
taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to
walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the
leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram
explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the
run.
14. Half-Shot Shooters (1936) ***+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Harry Semels, John Kascier, Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone
The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly
administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they
wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their
superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the
stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a
smoke stack, he blows them up.
15. Disorder in the Court (1936) ****+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Susan Karoan, Dan Brady, Tiny Jones, Bill O'Brien, Bud
Jamison, Harry Semels, Edward LeSaint, Hank Bell, James C.
Morton
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at
a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The
stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they
discover the real murderer's identity.
16. A Pain in the Pullman (1936) ****
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Bud Jamison, James C. Morton
The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an
engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the
trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor
and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and
they are literally tossed off the train.
17. False Alarms (1936) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Stanley Blystone
The stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in trouble,
they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their
jobs. Curly sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. She has two
friends who need dates, but the only way Curly can get Moe and Larry
out of the station is to pull a fire alarm. The firetruck leaves
without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captains new car to make it
to the call first. They manage to get Curly and get back to the
station, but in doing so wreck the car and must leave on the run.
18. Whoops I'm an Indian (1936) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison
Set in the old west, the stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the
resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape
into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as
Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced
to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in
the hoosegow.
19. Slippery Silks (1936) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Symona Boniface, Vernon Dent, Robert Williams
The stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They
put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on
furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges
wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
20. Grips, Grunts and Groans (1937) ****+
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Harrison Greene, Casey Colombo, Herb Stagman, Budd Fine,
Chuck Callahan, Blackie Whitford, Tony Chavex, Elaine
Waters, Sam Lufkin, Everett Sullivan, Bill Irving, Cy
Schindell
The stooges become trainers of "Bustoff", a champion wrestler. The
big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to
take good care of him. Instead they accidentally knock him out and
Curly must disguises himself as Bustoff and wrestle in his place.
The match doesn't go very well until Curly smells "Wild Hyacinth"
perfume on a lady fan at ringside. This drives him crazy and he
knocks out his opponent and half the people in the stadium.
21. Dizzy Doctors (1937) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : June Gittleson, Eva Murray, Ione Leslie, Vernon Dent, Bud
Jamison, Erle Bunn, Wilfred Lucas, Betty MacDonald, Louise
Carver, Frank Mills, Harley Wood, James C. Morton, A. R.
Haysel, Ella McKenzie
The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning
fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover
Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a
hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when
the head of hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they
ruined.
22. Three Dumb Clucks (1937) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lynton Brent, Frank Austin
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has
just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a
young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both
parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is
working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money,
they escape and take their father with them.
23. Goofs and Saddles (1937) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Ethan Laidlaw, Tod Lorch, Hank Mann, Stanley Blystone,
George Gray, Sam Lufkin
Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo
Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General
"Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a
saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise
themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain,
but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in
a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
24. Back to the Woods (1937) ****-
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Director: Preston Black
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are
banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive,
they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians
won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting
any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They
escape and another wild chase ensues.
25. Cash and Carry (1937) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lester Dorr
The stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their
dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation
they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure
is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up
in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The
president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's
operation.
26. Playing the Ponies (1937) ****
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Director: Charles Lamont
Cast : William Irving, Tiny Lipson
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for
"Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt
some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water.
The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding
Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle
leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
27. The Sitter-Downers (1937) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Marcia Healy, Betty Mack, June Gittleson, James C. Morton,
Bob McCenzie, Jack Long.
The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their
prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The
strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a
lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married,
but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The
boys have some problems with the construction, especially since
Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a
monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
28. Termites of 1938 (1938) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Dorothy Granger, Bud Jamison, Bess Flowers
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady
looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck
the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the
guest of honor, an English Lord.
29. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes
after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the
French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to
guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is
kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to
infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
30. Tassels in the Air (1938) ****+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Bess Flowers, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison
The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the
wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe
for "Omay", a famous decorator (the real Omay gets "Janitor, keep
out" painted on his door.) She hires the boys to redecorate her
house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the
real Omay shows up. Adding to the chaos is the fact that Curly goes
crazy whenever he sees tassels.
31. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Lucille Lund, James C. Morton, Bud Jamison, Bobby Burns
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the
Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive
items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill.
When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only
$4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are
also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers
conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out
what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne
bottles.
32. Three Missing Links (1938) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Monty Collins, Jane Hamilton, Naba, James C. Morton
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking
the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie.
Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On
location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch
doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of
attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts
the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
33. Violent is the Word for Curly (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Eddie Featherstone, Gladys Gale, Marjorie Denn, Bud
Jamison, John T. Murray, Pat Glenson
The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow
up the car of their first customers, three famous European
professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and
wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors
are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place
on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try
to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics
programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to
an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin
basketball.
[The title is a play on "Valiant is the Word for Carrie", a popular
film of the time.]
34. Mutts to You (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Bess Flowers, Lane Chandler, Vernon Dent Bud Jamison
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep
and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in
the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise
Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop.
They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize
what happened, the result is a happy ending.
35. Flat Foot Stooges (1938) ***+
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Chester Conklin, Dick Curtis, Lola Jensen
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull
the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern
equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs
daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious.
When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't
realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to
arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just
desserts.
36. Three Little Sew and Sews (1938) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Harry Semels, Phyliss Barry, James C. Morton, Vernon Dent,
Bud Jamison
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they
can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go
to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe
and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman,
trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the
table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows
up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb,
blowing them all to kingdom come.
37. We Want Our Mummy (1939) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, James C. Morton, Dick Curtis
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin
for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the
mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same
objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the
museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly
accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages
to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and
retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been
a midget.
38. A Ducking They Did Go (1939) ***+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent
The stooges are tricked by some con men into selling memberships to
a phony duck hunting club. To the amazement of the con men, they
sell all the memberships to the police department. When the bad
guys skip town, the stooges are stuck at a duck-less lake with a
lodge full of cops and plenty of trouble ahead. Moe and Larry stall
the cops with duck decoys while Curly searches for some real ducks.
The boys think their troubles are solved when Curly returns with a
whole flock, but it turns out the ducks belong to local farmer and
the boys leave in a hail of buckshot.
[ Ending from "A Pain in the Pullman". ]
39. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939) ****
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Dick Curtis, Lynon Brent, Vernon Dent
Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a
saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of
the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of
stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough
money to pay off the debts of their fiancees father, who owes money
to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks
recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues,
ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
40. Saved by the Belle (1939) ****-
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Director: Charley Chase
Cast : Carmen LaRue, Leroy Mason
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical
country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to
the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram
instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official
thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With
the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a
firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans
to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar
by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are
spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
41. Calling all Curs (1939) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Lynton Brent
The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon,
a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the
poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their
client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work,
they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When
they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight
and they find Garcon, only to discover that "he" has had a litter of
puppies.
42. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Richard Fiske, Eddie Laughton, Eva McKenzie
The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are
down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After
some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car,
one of Curly's wishes. The car actually belongs to some con men who
have just gypped the widow Jenkins out of her land. The boys winds
up at the Mrs. Jenkins house just in time for a free meal. To repay
Mrs. Jenkins the boys try to fix her well and instead unleash an oil
geyser. Learning that Mrs. Jenkins has been swindled, the boys go
to retrieve the deed before it can be recorded. They find the bad
guys and after a wild fight recover the deed. The boys return the
deed to Mrs. Jenkins and marry her daughters; April, May and June.
43. Three Sappy People (1939) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Fiske, Lorna Gray, Don Beddoe, Bud Jamison
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the
psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires
them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for
submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their
clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured
and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
44. You Natzy Spy (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Don Beddoe
In this satire of the Nazis the stooges are paperhangers in the
country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the
king, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid
enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a
Field Marshall and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After
successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the
boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
45. Rockin Through the Rockies (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Linda Winters, Dorothy Appleby, Lorna Gray, Kathryn
Sheldon
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When
hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must
contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians.
After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their
problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
46. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Symona Boniface, Bud Jamison, Bess Flowers, Eddie Laughton
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to
fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical
system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One
memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television
broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the
set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape
through a magicians trap door.
47. From Nurse to Worse (1940) *****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Dorothy Appleby
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on
Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put
Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him
act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to
perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to
escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken
to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to
a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and
knock him into wet cement.
48. Nutty But Nice (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent
The stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try
and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a
banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to
cheer up the girl, the stooges go out looking for the father and by
a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The
villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing
man.
49. How High is Up (1940) ****+
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Bruce Bennett, Edmund Cobb, Vernon Dent
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under
their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching
holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're
caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as
riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their
ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the
building and they must parachute off the building to escape the
wrath of the boss.
50. No Census, No Feeling (1940) ****-
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Vernon Dent, Symona Boniface, Max Davidson, Bruce Bennett,
Elinor Vandivere
The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion
looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a
bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting
concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and
shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a
football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up
in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the
other players in pursuit.
51. Cuckoo Cavaliers (1940) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dorothy Appleby
The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business
opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first
customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the
stooges completely ruin the girl's hair, and their manager finds
out, the boys must leave on the run.
52. Boobs in Arms (1940) ****-
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Richard Fiske, Evelyn Young, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted
into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of
their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the
same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are
sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must
rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas.
At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
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