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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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98. Fright Night (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Cy Shindell, Dick Wesell, Harold Brauer, Claire Carleton
The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet
their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to
have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to
play along. They try to soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food
and having him spend time with their friend Kitty. The fight gets
canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two
boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken
hand for the opponent. The stooges think they've put one over on
the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner them in a deserted
warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks
and get a reward.
99. Out West (1947) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jack Norman, Jock Mahoney, Vernon Dent, Christyne
McIntyre, Stanley Blystone, George Chesbro, Frank Ellis
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with
some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and
their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the
Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the
stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
100. Hold That Lion (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Curly
Howard
The stooges are gypped out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a
crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and
corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the
train.
[ Curly Howard has a cameo role as a snoring passenger. ]
101. Brideless Groom (1947) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Emil Sitka, Dee Green, Christyne McIntyre, Doris Colleen
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six
o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his
repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time.
When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance,
they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp
marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man.
102. Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Dee Green, Harold Baur
The stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint
finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a
fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their
problems. The bank robber conveniently ducks into their shop and
leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend fails
to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight
ensues. The boys miss out on the reward but wind up with the
crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors.
103. All Gummed Up (1947) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Emil Sitka
The stooges run a drug store and are about to have their lease taken
away by the Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint
kicks his wife out for being old, the stooges try to help her by
inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction
turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the
boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They
agree, but after he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and
the boys leave on the run.
104. Shivering Sherlocks (1948) ***
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Director: Del Lord
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Duke York, Kenneth
McDonald, Frank Lacteen
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops
as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed
but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile,
their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the
boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold.
The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct
Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
105. Pardon My Clutch (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Matt McHugh, Emil Sitka
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they
can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car
won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car
collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium.
Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back,
only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.
106. Square Heads of the Round Table (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Phil
Van Zandt
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges decide to help their friend
Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At
night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick
the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon,
the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of
the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out
well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
107. Fiddlers Three (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Virginia Hunter, Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask
the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees,
but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This
news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the
Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the
Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose
his evil doings.
108. Heavenly Daze (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and
Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to
prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a
fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp
sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for
the fires below anyway. But no, its only a dream and Shemp set the
bed on fire while smoking in bed.
109. Hot Scots (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Herb Evans, Ted Lorch, Charles Knight
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking
they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When
they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where
valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to
get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose
the servants as the crooks.
110. I'm a Monkey's Uncle (1948) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dee Green, Virginia Hunter
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various
misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with
prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their
women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with
a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
111. Mummies Dummies (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Dee Green, Ralph Dunn, Phil Van Zandt
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they
unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp
the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be
executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the
King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a
corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his
daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry
select Shemp to be the groom.
112. Crime on Their Hands (1948) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Charles C. Wilson,
Lester Allen
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an
anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond,
the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They
find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which
was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond
out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
113. The Ghost Talks (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast :
The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night
are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky
old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who
has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts
to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off
together.
114. Who Done it? (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Emil Sitka
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing
millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion
confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges
vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the
missing man.
115. Hocus Pocus (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Jimmie Lloyd
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is
confined to wheelchair. What they don't is that Mary is only faking
her disability to swindle the insurance company. When the boys
witness a hypnotist, "The Great Svengarlic", doing his act on the
street, they think he might be able to hypnotize Mary so she can
walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized
into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they
come out of their trance and realize their predicament, they fall
into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her wheelchair just as
the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check.
116. Fuelin Around (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre,
Phil Van Zandt
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist,
Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is
mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and
take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce
the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction
they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real
professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help
them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
117. Malice in the Palace (1949) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : George Lewis, Franck Lacteen, Vernon Dent
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys
set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn
from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the
contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they
disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the
diamond.
118. Vagabond Loafers (1949) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Symona Boniface,
Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Herbet Evans
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy
mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical
and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their
incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting
stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
119. Dunked in the Deep (1949) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Gene Roth
The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor
"Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on
the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some
stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After
a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
120. Punchy Cow Punchers (1950) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Dick Wessel, Kenneth
MacDonald, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka
Set in the old west, the stooges are three soldiers assigned to go
undercover and spy on an outlaw gang that's terrorizing a nearby
town. The bad guys have the Arizona Kid locked up, so the boys set
about rescuing him with the help of beautiful Nell, his girl. They
free the kid, and he rides to summon help. The stooges, with the
help of Nell, manage to subdue the bad guys before the kid arrives
with the cavalry.
121. Hugs and Mugs (1950) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kathleen O'Malley, Nanette Bordeaux,
Emil Sitka
The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a
stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that
the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the
stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The stooges defeat the
bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace
to its rightful owner.
122. Dopey Dicks (1950) ***
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Stanley Price, Phil Van Zandt
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the
clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion
where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human
head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for
the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a
car driven by the headless robot.
123. Love at First Bite (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Yvette Reynard, Marie Monteil
The stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the
military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get
drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement.
After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands
them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
124. Self Made Maids (1950) **+
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : [ No supporting cast, the stooges play all parts ]
The stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella",
"Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so
the stooges tickle him into submission.
125. Three Hams on Rye (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Christyne McIntyre
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play.
They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail
to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then
Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a
prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the
rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a
serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the
boys are redeemed.
126. Studio Stoops (1950) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre, Stanley
Price
The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their
first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty
starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their
story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come
to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an
extending telephone.
127. Slap Happy Sleuths (1950) ***
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone, Gene Roth, Nanette
Bordeaux?, Emil Sitka
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The
company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so
the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
128. A Snitch in Time (1950) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Jean Willes
The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture
they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated
when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. They
defeat the bad guys with the help of the varnished furniture which
sticks the head crook to a chair.
129. Three Arabian Nuts (1951) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt, Dick Curtis, Wesely Bly
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a
magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after
the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the
"genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
130. Baby Sitters' Jitters (1951) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Lynn Davis, David Windsor, Margie Liszt, Myron Healy
The stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by
becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from
her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When
The husband steals the baby, the stooges set out to find their
missing charge and return him to his mother. The boys confront the
husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is
re-united.
131. Don't Throw That Knife (1951) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Dick Curtis, Jean Willes
The stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a
lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the
husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and
after dodging some knives, leave on the run.
132. Scrambled Brains (1951) ****
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Babe London, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst
vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe
and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover
he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the
wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get
even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding
Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be
the man they just fought with.
133. Merry Mavericks (1951) ***
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Dan Harvey, Mary Martin, Paul Campbell
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage
to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding
some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an
Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as
ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock
them out.
134. The Tooth Will Out (1951) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Margie Liszt
The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a
practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's
toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys
must leave on the run.
135. Hu La La (1951) ****
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Director: Hugh McCullom
Cast : Jean Willes, Joy Windsor, Kenneth McDonald
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a
tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear
in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor
who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat
the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed
idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
136. The Pest Man Wins (1951) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Margie Liszt, Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent,
Helen Dickson, Symona Boniface (stock footage)
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting
vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are
hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt
the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
[ Basically a remake of "Ants in the Pantry". ]
137. A Missed Fortune (1952) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Vernon Dent, Nanette Bordeaux, Vivian Mason
Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the
Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy
suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are
pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the
check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions.
[ Basically a remake of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb". ]
138. Listen Judge (1952) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Kitty McHugh
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a
charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind
up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting
to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are
discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political
supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
139. Corny Casanovas (1952) ***+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Connie Cezan
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same
girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of
them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at
the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the
others of making time with "his" girl. The stooges knock each other
senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.
140. He Cooked His Goose (1952) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time
trying to steal Shemp's fiancee. When Moe's become suspicious,
Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job
as a door to door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment,
and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancee to go there and catch
him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and
lets Moe deliver some punishment.
[ A departure from the regular format. The stooges work as seperate
characters and Larry has the main role. ]
141. Gents in a Jam (1952) ***+
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Director: Edward Bernds
Cast : David Bond, Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Kitty
McHugh, Mickey Simpson, Danny Sue Nolan
Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke
and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs.
McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune.
The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp
accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the
middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the
strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were
childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of
the bucks once again.
142. Three Dark Horses (1952) ****+
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Kenneth McDonald
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential
convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his
candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors
sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the
boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The
stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote
for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his
muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild
fight.
143. Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo (1952) ***
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Director: Jules White
Cast : Patricia Wright, Victoria Horne
Larry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to
marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her
sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with
"Carry", an imaginary giant canary. Moe is an investigator from the
railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen from a moving
train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with
both women, but still prefers his imaginary canary.
[ One of the strangest stooge shorts. Larry does a good impression
of Marlon Brando. ]
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