One of the last shorts with Curly, who's health was already beginning to decline. This film is from 1946. Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop, owed money to the gashouse protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in the shop as part of a plan to sell a phony diamond and the stooges wind up caring for the kid. The stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish telling the story, the kid goes off to find his real mother.
From 1956, this is another film with Shemp Howard. 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.
Released in 1935. 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
From 1958 comes Stooge short number 183, which is probably the best of the Joe Besser shorts. 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.
Released in April of 1958, this Stooge short features Moe, Larry, and Joe. 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.
Beer and Pretzels (1933) was one of the first one screen appearances of the Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curley Howard line-up. The "brains" behind the trio is Ted Healy. He bullies and punks out his "stooges" as he mack's on women. Curley is thin in his role as the central comic foil of the group. The trio hasn't fine honed their permanent characteristics of the lovable doofs that we have grown to love over the next eleven years.
Professor Jones and the Stooges travel to the planet Sunev, and greet its inhabitants' leader the Grand Zilch, and his military commander the High Mucky Muck. The Stooges' gracious welcome, and dinner celebration with three amazon beauties, hides a Sunevian plot to conquer the Earth with an army of prehistoric zombies. Jones and the Stooges learn of the invasion plot, but find their attempt to foil the aliens' plans complicated when they accidentally release one of the zombies. 1957
Another Stooge short, from 1958, this time with Moe, Larry, and Joe. 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. Not one of the best shorts, but I posted it since it had Joe Besser.
From 1950 comes the Camel Comedy Caravan with special guests, The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe, and Shemp). I could have cut it down to just the Stooges appearances, but for the sake of continuity, have included the entire show. The host of this show was Ed Wynn, probably most notable as Uncle Albert in Disney's Mary Poppins. He loved to laugh, and now you can laugh right along with him. The show was hosted by Camel cigarettes and you will see plenty of advertising for them in this show. Nostalgic, historic, and entertaining.
From 1951 is undoubtedly one of the best Stooge shorts with Shemp. 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.
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