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3 Stooges Movie Timeline
1930 (Ted Healy and the Three Stooges)
7. Turn Back the Clock (1933) ------------ Director: Edgar Selwyn Cast : Ted Healy Their MGM contract called for the Stooges to appear in a variety of studio projects. They ultimately appeared in five feature films, none of which were in starring roles. Turn Back the Clock was their first MGM feature. 8. Meet the Baron (1933) ------------ Director: Benjamin Stoloff Cast : Jimmy Durante, Ted Healy, Jack Pearl This film was produced as a vehicle for Jack Pearl's career. His radio characterization of the legendary Baron Munchausen delighted audiences of the time. Some felt that The Three Stooges nearly stole the show, however. For the first time, the Stooges portray tradesmen, a situation they will use countless times in the future. 9. Dancing Lady (1933) ------------ Director: Robert Z. Leonard Cast : Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ted Healy The highest profile film that the Stooges ever made. Breaking MGM box office records, it co-starred the emerging Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in one of her spunkiest roles. Dancing Lady is a formulaic Depression-era backstage musical. The Stooges only appear briefly, but they provide comic relief to the tension between the high-strung director and the love-torn show girl. 10. The Big Idea (1934) ------------ Director: William Crowley Cast : Ted Healy Ted Healy’s writing is constantly interrupted by the Stooges and others. 11. Fugitive Lovers (1934) ------------ Director: Richard Boleslavsky Cast : Madge Evans, Robert Montgomery, Ted Healy Once again playing show business people, the Stooges have only a limited role in Fugitive Lovers. They play a vaudevillian team of brothers led by Moe, who repeatedly fears that his throat is closing up on him. The film signifies the separation of the Stooges and Ted Healy. 12. Hollywood Party (1934) ------------ Director: Benjamin Stoloff Cast : Jimmy Durante, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Jack Pearl, Ted Healy The Stooges were so undervalued at MGM at this time that they did not even warrant an actual invitation to the Hollywood Party in the film. They play autograph hounds that look for movie stars but encounter only Ted Healy and a quartet of scientists who identify the Stooges as primitive humanoid specimens. 13. Myrt and Marge (1934) ------------ Director: Benjamin Stoloff Cast : Ted Healy, Donna Maereal, Myrtle Vail Universal's attempt at creating a film version of the radio tandem of Myrtle Vail and Donna Damerell, "Myrt and Marge, Radio's Sweethearts." The film gave Healy and the Stooges more screen time than any pre-Columbia feature film. They appear in 17 of 25 scenes, visually dominating two of them. They do five extended routines, giving us our longest look at their comic dynamics. 1934 - 1947 (Moe, Larry, Curly) ================== 1. Woman Haters (1934) ------------ 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. 2. Punch Drunks (1934) ------------ 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) ------------ 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. 4. Three Little Pigskins (1934) --------------------- 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) -------------- 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) ---------------- 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) ------------------ 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) ---------------- 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) ---------------- 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) ---------- 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) ------------------ 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) ------------------ 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) -------------------- 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) ------------------ 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) --------------------- 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) --------------------- 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) ------------ 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 fire truck leaves without Moe and Larry, so they steal the captain’s 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) -------------------- 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) -------------- 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) ------------------------ 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) ------------- 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) ----------------- 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) ----------------- 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) ----------------- 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) -------------- 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) ------------------ 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) ------------------ 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) ---------------- 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) ---------------- 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) ------------------ 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) -------------------------------- Director: Del Lord Cast : Lucille Lund, James C. Morton, Bud Jamison 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) ------------------- 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) ----------------------------- 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. 34. Mutts to You (1938) ------------ 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) ----------------- 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 chief’s 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 it’s 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) ------------------------- 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) ----------------- 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) --------------------- 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. 39. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939) ----------------------- 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 fiancées 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) ------------------ 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) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Lynton Brent The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dog nappers 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) ------------------------- 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 wind up at 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) ------------------ 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 Nazty Spy (1940) ------------- 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) -------------------------- 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 snowstorm 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) --------------------- 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 magician’s trap door. 47. From Nurse to Worse (1940) -------------------- 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 dogcatchers 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) -------------- 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) -------------- 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) --------------------- 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) ---------------- 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 nightclub. 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) ------------- 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 boot camp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell. 53. So Long Mr. Chumps (1941) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Bruce Bennet, Robert Williams The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman whose fiancée 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) ---------------- 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 World’s a Stooge (1941) ----------------------- 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) --------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Mary Ainslee, John Kascier, Vernon Dent, Bud Jaimison A follow up to "You Nazty Spy", the stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshall and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb, which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the stooges wind up as trophies on the wall. 57. An Ache in Every Stake (1941) ---------------------- 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 whom they are, they must leave in a hurry. 58. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941) ------------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Dorothy Appleby, Mary Ainslee, Etheldera Leopold, Symona Boniface, Vernon Dent. The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are adorned. 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. 59. Some More of Samoa (1941) ------------------ 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) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Dorothy Appleby, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Robert Williams, John Tyrel The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The stooges decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put on a big show with a famous critic in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success. 61. Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) -------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Monty Collins, Vernon Dent, Ernie Adams The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although dynamite bombards them, triumph over the crooks. 62. What's the Matador (1942) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Suzanne Kaaven, Harry Burns, Dorothy Appleby, Eddie Laughton The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When her jealous husband confronts them 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. 63. Matri-Phony (1942) ------------------ 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 redhead, seek 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 the palace guards catch them as they try to escape. 64. Three Smart Saps (1942) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all ends well. 65. Even as I.O.U (1942) ------------- 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 kid’s piggy bank and sneak into the racetrack. 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) --------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Bud Jamison The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes. 67. They Stooge to Conga (1943) -------------------- 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. 68. Dizzy Detectives (1943) ---------------- 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, which 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. 69. Spook Louder (1943) ------------ 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) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by various means, such as Moe disguising himself as Hitler, and Curly and Larry as Goering and Goebbels, manage to capture the enemy ship. 71. Three Little Twerps (1943) ------------------- 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, they receive 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) ------------------ 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) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Bud Jamison The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy it’s 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) ------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Richard Fiske The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the boys are drafted into the army where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant. 75. Phony Express (1943) ------------- 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) -------------- 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 storeroom filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys. 77. Crash Goes the Hash (1944) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison, Dick Curtis, Symona Boniface The stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local socialite. The boys disguise as servants and infiltrate a party being in thrown in the honor of the prince. The stooges ruin the party, but save the day as they expose the prince as crook who is planning to rob the house. Their boss is so grateful for the expose that he gives the boys a bonus and the rich lady decides to marry Curly! 78. Busy Buddies (1944) ------------ 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 whose 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 Yoke’s on Me (1944) --------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Bob McKenzie, Emmett Lynn Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. After paying $1000 and throwing in their car, the boys are owners of a run down farm, which lacks any livestock. After capturing an escaped ostrich, they decide to carve jack-o-lanterns for profit and then must contend with some Japanese who have escaped from a relocation center. The stooges become heroes by capturing the escapees, with the help of explosive eggs laid by the ostrich that had swallowed some blasting powder. 80. Idle Roomers (1944) ------------ Director: Del Lord Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Duke York, Vernon Dent The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a sideshow’s promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolf man who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolf man by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolf man go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolf man who shoots them into the sky. 81. Gents Without Cents (1944) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Lindsay, Laverne, and Betty The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. 82. No Dough Boys (1944) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed and impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies. 83. Three Pests in a Mess (1945) --------------------- 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) ----------- 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 rowboat, 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) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Paul Kruger Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear, which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax. 86. If a Body Meets a Body (1945) ---------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Theodore Lorch, Fred Kelsey Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty-seven cents. 87. Micro-Phonies (1945) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Gino Corrado, Symona Boniface, Fred Kelsey, Sam Flint, Chester Conklin The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her disapproving society parents while auditioning for Mrs. Bixby's "Krispy Krunchy" radio program. After a run-in with a pompous violinist, the boys find the record and Curly starts mimicking to it, dressed as a women. Mrs. Bixby witnesses their performance and is impressed enough to hire "Senorita Cucaracha" (Curly) and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" (Moe and Larry) for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at a Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record over Curly's head. The real singer tries to help by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is discovered and the stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records. 88. Beer Barrel Polecats (1946) -------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Robert Williams, Vernon Dent, Bruce Bennett The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty-year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rock pile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer. 89. A Bird in the Head (1946) ------------------ 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) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Faye WIlliams, Eleanor Counts, Marilyn Johnson, Maury Dexter, Ted Lorch, Al Rosen, Blackie Whiteford The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles. 91. The Three Troubledoers (1946) ---------------------- Director: Edward Bernds Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Dick Curtis, Vernon Dent Set in the old west, the stooges become marshals 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, whose 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) ------------------ Director: Edward Bernds Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Fred Kelsey, Snub Pollard, Jean Donahue, Cy Schindell The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars. 93. Three Loan Wolves (1946) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Beverley Warren, Harold Brauer Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawnshop, 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) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Judy Malcom, Ethelread Leopold, Doris Houck, Symona Boniface The stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancées, 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) --------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Jack Norton, Doria Patrice, Ruth Godfrey, Nita Bieber The stooges are actors who can't seem to find a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the rooftop 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) -------------------- Director: Edward Bernds Cast : Robert Stevens, Dorothy DeHaven, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife-throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a miss-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) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Barbara Slater, Ted Lorch, Emil Sitka, Symona Boniface A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight. 1947 - 1956 (Moe, Larry, Shemp) ================== 98. Fright Night (1947) ------------ 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) -------- 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) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Curly Howard Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer, gyps the stooges out of their inheritance. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. 101. Brideless Groom (1947) --------------- 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 were still a free man. 102. Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) ------------------------ 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) ------------- 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) ------------------- 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 it’s 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) ---------------- 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) ------------------------------- 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) -------------- 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) ------------- 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) --------- 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 needed 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) -------------------- 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) --------------- 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) -------------------- 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) --------------- 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 ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving, haunts the armor. 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) ------------ 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) ----------- 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) ------------- 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. 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 mistake Larry for the professor. 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) -------------------- 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) ---------------- 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) ------------------ 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) ------------------- 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) ------------- 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) ----------- 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) ------------------ 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) --------------- 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) ----------------- 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) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Christyne McIntyre, Stanley Price A movie studio hires the stooges 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) ------------------ Director: Hugh McCullom Cast : Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone, Gene Roth, Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. A gang of crooks is robbing the company’s service stations, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys. 128. A Snitch in Time (1950) ---------------- 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 that 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) ------------------ 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) --------------------- 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) ---------------------- 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) ---------------- 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) --------------- 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) ------------------ 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) -------- 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) ----------------- 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. 137. A Missed Fortune (1952) ---------------- 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, three gold-digging dames pursue the boys after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions. 138. Listen Judge (1952) ------------ 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) --------------- 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) ------------------- 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 fiancée. 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 fiancée to go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment. 141. Gents in a Jam (1952) -------------- 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 be 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) ----------------- 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) --------------------- 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. 144. Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953) ----------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Connie Cezan, John Merton, Jack Kenny The stooges escape from jail to prevent their newly rich dad from marrying Daisy, a gold-digger after his money. Shemp looks like dad, so he impersonates him and marries Daisy. What the stooges don't know is that Daisy is in cahoots with some crooks, and they plan to bump off her new husband. The boys foil the crook's plan and take Pa home to Ma. 145. Booty and the Beast (1953) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Curly Howard (stock footage) The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty. 146. Loose Loot (1953) ---------- Director: Jules White Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Tom Kennedy, Emil Sitka The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook that absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance. 147. Tricky Dicks (1953) ------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Benny Rubin, Connie Cezan, Ferris Taylor, Phil Arnold, Murray Alper The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gunfight that nearly destroys the police station. 148. Spooks (1953) ------ Director: Jules White Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy, Norma Randall The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl. 149. Pardon my Backfire (1953) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold, Fred Kelsey The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. 150. Rip, Sew and Stitch (1953) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Arnold The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll. 151. Bubble Trouble (1953) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Christyne McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka The stooges are pharmacists who invent a fountain of youth formula that can turn old people young. They turn an old lady into a beautiful young woman, but when her husband takes the formula it turns him into a gorilla. 152. Goofs on the Roof (1953) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Frank Mitchell, Maxine Gates The stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friend’s 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) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Nanette Bordeaux, Margie Liszt Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges. 154. Musty Musketeers (1954) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, Phil Van Zandt, Virginia Hunter Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight. 155. Pals and Gals (1954) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Norman Willis, George Chesebroo, Christyne McIntyre, Vernon Dent The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day. 156. Knutzy Knights (1954) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Jock Mahoney, Christyne McIntyre, Phil Van Zandt, Vernon Dent Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith wins 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. 157. Shot in the Frontier (1954) -------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the stooges are courting. 158. Scotched in Scotland (1954) -------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Charles Knight, Christyne McIntyre As 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. 159. Fling in the Ring (1955) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Richard Wessel, Claire Carleton, Frank Sully The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons. 160. Of Cash and Hash (1955) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Frank Lacteen The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a Cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the Cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the stooges must rescue her. 161. Gypped in the Penthouse (1955) ----------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Jean Willes Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge. 162. Bedlam in Paradise (1955) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Phil Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Slyvia Lewis Symona Boniface Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates. 163. Stone Age Romeos (1955) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Dee Green, Nancy Saunders, Virginia Hunter The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some Stone Age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen. 164. Wham Bam Slam (1955) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Matt McHugh, Alyn Loar, Dora Revier, Wanda Perry Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various homemade 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. 165. Hot Ice (1955) ------- Director: Jules White Cast : Kenneth MacDonald, Christyne McIntyre, Barbara Bartay The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla 166. Blunder Boys (1955) ------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Kenneth MacDonald The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. 167. Husbands Beware (1956) --------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Dee Green, Emil Sitka, Lou Leonard, Maxine Gates To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters. 168. Creeps (1956) ------ Director: Jules White The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving, haunts the armor. 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.) 169. Flagpole Jitters (1956) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Beverly Thomas, Barbara Bartay, Mary Ainslee, Bonnie Mensunm Dan Harvey, David Bond, Frank Sully, Dick Alexander, Vernon Dent The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation. 170. For Crimin’ Out Loud (1956) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Ralph Dunn, Barbara Bartay, Christyne McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Duke York, Charles Knight The stooges are private detectives hired to protect a rich politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his spooky mansion confronting various villains and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man. 171. Rumpus in the Harem (1956) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Vernon Dent, George Lewis, Helen Jay, Harriette Tarler, Diana Darvin, Suzanne Ridgeway, Ruth Godfrey White Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée’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 Schmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Schmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond. 172. Hot Stuff (1956) --------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Christyne McIntyre, Connie Cezan, Evelyn Lovequist, Andri Pola, Vernon Dent, Harold Brower, Phil Van Zandt The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep. 173. Scheming Schemers (1956) ----------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Christyne McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Symona Boniface, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, H. Coons The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight. 174. Commotion on the Ocean (1956) ---------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Gene Roth, Harriette Taylor, Emil Sitka The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm. 1957 - 1958 (Moe, Larry, Joe Besser) ================== 175. Hoofs and Goofs (1957) --------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Benny Rubin, Hariette Tayler, Tony the Wonder Horse Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse. 176. Muscle up a Little Closer (1957) ------------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Maxine Gates, Matt Murphy, Ruth Godfrey White, Hariette Tayler Joe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers the engagement ring, which has disappeared. The stooges suspect the ring was stolen by Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory they do. They confront Elmo in the company gym, but he's too tough for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she gets Elmo to confess and return the ring. 177. A Merry Mix-up (1957) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Nannette Bordeaux, Jean Carmen, Ruth Godfrey White, Suzanne Ridgeway, Hariette Tayler, Diana Darrin The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and troubles for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in the end. 178. Space Ship Sappy (1957) ---------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Benny Rubin, Emil Sitka, Lorraine Crawford, Hariette Tayler, Marilyn Hanold, Doreen Woodbury An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan to devour them. The stooges escape and take off in the spaceship, which goes wildly out of control. As the ship is about to crash, the scene changes to the annual meeting of the Liars Club, where the stooges win the prize as the biggest liars in the world. 179. Guns A-Poppin’ (1957) ------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Frank Sully, Joe Palma, Vernon Dent Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax. 180. Horsing Around (1957) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Hariette Tayler, Tony the Wonder Horse A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited. 181. Rusty Romeos (1957) ------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Connie Cezan The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The gold-digger gets it in the end (literally) with tacks shot from a repeating rifle. 182. Outer Space Jitters (1957) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Dan Blocker, Phil Van Zandt, Joe Palma, Harriette Tayler, Diana Darrin, Arline Hunter The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to the stooges’ apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime story to their kids (also played by the stooges) while they wait for the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry. 183. Quiz Whiz (1958) --------- Director: Jules White Cast : Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Bill Brawer, Emil Sitka Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil the plan and recover Joe's money. 184. Fifi Blows Her Top (1958) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Vanda Dupre, Phil Van Zandt, Harriette Tarler, Joe Palma, Hariette Tayler, Christyne McIntyre (stock footage) The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe. 185. Pies and Guys (1958) -------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Helen Dickson, Hariette Tayler, John Kascier, Symona Boniface (stock footage) A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues. 186. Sweet and Hot (1958) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Muriel Landers Nightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny to join the act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of people. They take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and the act is a success. 187. Flying Saucer Daffy (1958) ------------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Harriette Tayler, Emil Sitka, Gail Bonney, Bek Nelson, Diana Darrin Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate, which Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the picture is proven to be phony, they're hauled off to Jail. Joe then gets a picture of a real spaceship and this time he gets the fame and fortune, while Moe and Larry wind up in a sanitarium. 188. Oils Well That Ends Well (1958) ------------------------ Director: Jules White The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved. 189. Triple Crossed (1958) -------------- Director: Jules White Cast : Diana Darrin, Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancée. 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. 190. Sappy Bullfighters (1959) ------------------ Director: Jules White Cast : Greta Thyssen, George Lewis Stranded in Mexico, the stooges need a job and a pretty actress friend gets them an engagement at the Plaza de Toros. When they accidentally switch suitcases with that of their friend, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their own and are confronted by her jealous husband who vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the arena where they perform a comedy bullfight (Joe is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Joe knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. 1959 - 1970 (Moe, Larry, Curly Joe DeRita) ================== 1. Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) ------------ Director: David Lowell Rich Cast : Marjorie Bennett, Bob Colbert, Jerome Cowan, Don Lamond, Anna Lisa The Stooges travel by accident to Venus and encounter a monster and a mad robot. First appearance as a Stooge for Curly-Joe DeRita, replacing Joe Besser as the third Stooge. First full length Columbia feature film for the Three Stooges. The Stooges had contemplated retirement until Columbia released the Stooge shorts to nationwide TV in 1958. The Stooges were an overnight success, which set the stage for this film. Actor Don Lamond was Larry’s son-in-law. 2. Stop! Look! And Laugh! (1961) ------------ Director: Jules White, Lou Brandt, Don Appell Cast : Officer Joe Bolton, The Marquis Chimps, Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff, Paul Winchell Combination of segments from eleven Stooge shorts from Columbia. This film caused a lawsuit to be filed by the Three Stooges against Columbia Pictures when the studio attempted to make this film without any involvement or permission from the Boys. The Stooges won an injunction against Columbia and a settlement, which lead to their next Columbia Picture "Three Stooges Meet Hercules" (1962). 3. Snow White and the Three Stooges (1933) ------------ Director: Walter Lang Cast : Buddy Baer, Edgar Barrier, Peter Coe, Michael David, Carol Heiss, Patricia Medina, Guy Rolfe, Edson Strell Story based on the famous Snow White fairy tale. Second feature made by the Stooges for Fox, the first being "Soup To Nuts" (1930) 31 years before. First and only Stooge feature film in color. The film was intended to feature Carol Heiss, the USA gold medalist champion women’s figure skater in 1960. It was her only film. Screenwriter Noel Langley had co-written "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939). The Boys were later disappointed that their role in the film was not greater. 4. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) ------------ Director: Edward Bernds Cast : Samson Burke, Lewis Charles, John Cliff, Barbara Hines, Terry Huntingdon, Gregg Martell, George N. Neise, Diana Piper, Quinn Redeker, Emil Sitka, Hal Smith, Vicki Trickett The Stooges travel by time machine back to ancient Greece to encounter Hercules. The most successful Three Stooges film financially. It grossed $2,000,000 in its initial theatrical release, which was substantial at that time and lead to 3 more feature films from Columbia. Norman Maurer was Moe’s son-in-law. 5. The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) ------------ Director: Edward Bernds Cast : Duane Ament, Rayford Barnes, Peter Brocco, Jean Charney, Carol Christensen, Peter Dawson, Bill Dyer, Thomas Glynn, Don Lamond, Norman Leavitt, Maurice Manson, George N. Neise, Nestor Paiva, Emil Sitka, Edson Strell The Stooges save humanity from invasion by the martians. Actor Don Lamond was Larry’s son-in-law. Norman Maurer was Moe’s son-in-law. 6. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) ------------ Director: Norman Maurer Cast : Murray Alper, Phil Arnold, Walter Burke, Maurice Dalimore, Richard Devon, Anthony Eustrel, Peter Forster, Joan Freeman, Jack Greening, Iau Kea, Bob Kino, Don Lamond, Jay Sheffield, Emil Sitka Parody of Jules Verne’s "Around The World In Eighty Days." The Stooges help Phineas Fogg III get around the world in eighty days. Actor Don Lamond was Larry’s son-in-law. Norman Maurer was Moe’s son-in-law. 7. The Outlaws is Coming! (1965) ------------ Director: Norman Maurer Cast : Murray Alper, Audrey Betz, Tony Brauer, Marilyn Fox, Henry Gibson, Rex Holman, Nancy Kovack, Don Lamond, Sidney Marion, Mort Mills, Emil Sitka, Adam West The Stooges travel out West as 3 bumbling printers to investigate the slaughter of Buffalos in the Wild West. Last major Hollywood feature film for The Three Stooges. Don Lamond was Larry’s son-in-law. Adam West later starred in the popular TV series "Batman." Nancy Kovack starred in the TV series "Annie Oakley." Henry Gibson went on to star in the TV series "Laugh-In." Don Lamond was Larry’s son-in-law. Norman Maurer was Moe’s son-in-law. 8. Kook’s Tour (1970) ------------ Director: Norman Maurer Never "officially" released or broadcast. Story documents a 5-week Stooge vacation in the wilderness of Idaho and Wyoming with the "Retired" Stooges. Last film for The Three Stooges. The Stooges filmed this comic travelogue in the Fall of 1969 as a TV pilot designed originally for 39 half-hour shows, but tragedy struck as Larry suffered a debilitating stroke on January 9, 1970. Larry died five years later on January 24, 1975, and Moe died the same year on May 4, 1975. The last Stooge –Curly-Joe DeRita, passed away on July 3, 1993. Norman Maurer was Moe’s son-in-law. estooges.com 2010 - 2011 |
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