A classic 3 Stooges short.
Larry, Moe and Curly find an evicted woman and her daughter in financial trouble. They decide to helpher by betting the child's piggy bank on the horses. Two con men scam the boys out of the money when they buy a rundown horse named Seabiscuit. To boost his energy, Curly tries to blow a vitamin into the horse's puith, only to have it blown into his own mouth. He begins to act like a horse and Moe and Larry get him to a hospital where he bears a talking colt. 1942
Moe, Larry and Curly are three paperhangers who are out of a job after they wreck Mr. Beedle's apartment, but Prof. Panzer offers to take care of them for the rest of their lives. He wants to transplant Curly's brain into Igor, his gorilla!
The boys are resturant owners. In an attempt to pay off their business debts, they take a job putting up posters. Noticing that the posters are advertising a cow milking contest that pays $100.00 to the winner, Moe and Larry decide that Curly is now in the contest. After attemping to get some practice in on a BULL, Curly faces the champ in the ring in a "milk-off." Their ruse of Moe and Larry inside a fake cow supplying Curly with milk is soon discovered, however, and the boys retreat amist a chorus of "Boo's." 1944
Larry, Shemp, and Moe own a tailor shop that is in danger of losing all the equipment if they don't pay up the company that stocks the machines, so the stooges go after a bank bandit and his henchmen. In the end a wild fight goes on between the robber and his gang and the stooges, the stooges win the fight and collect the reward offered for the criminal's capture. 1953
The Widow has just sold her farm to three swindlers. Meanwhile, Curly has the uncanny ability to make his wishes come true. He wishes for a car and finds one, which they drive to the Widow Jenkins' farm. They repay her for a nice meal by fixing her water pump. While they work, they discover an oil well. The boys tell Mrs. Jenkims the news, but realize she was swindled. The Stooges search for the crooks, who they find walking down the road. They find the deed to Mrs. Jenkins' property and return it. They win the love of Mrs. Jenkins' three daughters and get married. 1939
Moe, Larry, and Shemp are beginner plumbers answering a call from Mr. Norfleet at his mansion, whose wife has dropped a diamond ring in the bathroom drain. Moe and Larry find the ring, but apparently drop it once more down the drain. So the Stooges must search for it throughout the household plumbing, inadvertantly crossing the electrical and plumbing pipes in the process. Meanwhile, two guests at the Norfleets' party are planning to steal a valuable painting. They cut the painting out of the frame when no one is watching. Moe and Larry discover that after all their searching, the ring was caught in Larry's hair all the time! After their success, Moe and Larry catch the thief stuffing the painting into a pipe. Chasing him into the party, a huge pie fight breaks out. 1956
From 1948 comes this off the wall screwball short with Shemp, Moe, and Larry. 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.
Three rich heiresses must get married before Midnight to collect their inheritance, but their Navy fiancees have to ship out to Hawaii. Their lawyer arranges for them to marry three convicts about to be hanged - Moe, Larry and Curly! Unfortunately (for the girls), the Stooges are freed when real killers are caught. 1941 Prison footage was later reused in BEER BARREL POLECATS (1946). The dancing lesson footage was borrowed from HOI POLLOI (1935).
Wedding plans for the Three Stooges are cut short when the father of their brides is wrongly jailed. Moe comes up with a plan for them to get into jail and bust the father out. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to get arrested, they end up walking through the front door of the county jail. To get the future father-in-law's job back as warden and expose the criminals, the Stooges go undercover as gentlemen at the gangster's dinner party to take pictures as evidence. The lengthy rumba dance provides plenty of time for Moe to shoot the photos, while Curly creates a diversion by exposing various undergarments. 1942
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