Larry, Moe and Joe are one of three sets of triplets born one year apart. They finally meet up with each other after several years, causing their brothers' wives to become confused. The Stooges soon get chased away by a waiter with a meat cleaver. 1957
Cedric the Blacksmith loves the beautiful Princess Elaine, but the Black Prince is planning to marry her, kill her father the King, and take over the kingdom. Fortunately, a travelling acting troupe (the Stooges) help Cedric woo the Princess, and they manage to stop the Black Prince's dastardly plot. 1954
The Stooges have no clue that they are dating the same woman, who is using them to get engagement rings from all three. The boys arrive at her house separately, and each give her a ring. While taking a look around the house Moe & Larry spot each other and catch Joe snuggling with "their" girl. A fight ensues, and Moe and Larry beat each other senseless. But Joe gets the upperhand, with help from a little invention the Stooges came up with. 1957
At The Woman Haters Club, Larry and Shemp exchange stories of their disastrous encounters with a golddigger, who turns out to be the same woman. Jane became engaged to Larry, only to dump him when Moe shows up with a larger diamond ring. Shemp is a good samaritan, who winds up in Jane's apartment after a good deed, and chased by her husband Moe when he returns home early... "He was on a business trip. That's separated, isn't it?!" Drowning their sorrows in beer, Shemp & Larry are introduced by fellow club member Charlie, to the WH's newest recruit. Of course it's Moe, and slapstick mayhem ensues! 1955
Larry is a pet store dealer having an affair with Moe's wife, and trying to romance Joe's fiancee. After both become suspicious, Larry comes up with a plan to put himself in the clear, and frame Joe as a philanderer. The plan backfires, Joe kicks Larry into Moe's apartment, where Moe discovers the real rat. The Stooges play separate characters in this short and Larry has the main role. 1959 A remake of HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (1952), with some stock footage. In the sequence where Moe shoots a gun up the chimney, stock footage with Shemp's voice is used.
A Car-Tune Portrait was an early cartoon by pioneering animator Max Fleischer. Released on June 26th, 1937, it gave an imaginative take on Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor. The cartoon features a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of animal musicians in order as they half-play, half-fight their way through the piece. Memorable moments include a Dachshund playing the xylophone using his back legs while the rest of him sleeps, a group of monkeys using a flute as a pea-shooter to fire at their fellow musicians, and a horse trombonist who attempts to swat a fly using his instrument but who only succeeds in hitting the dog trumpeter in front of him.
Shemp has just won $50,000 in the Mystery Motor Jackpot Contest. Larry and Moe help him celebrate at the Hotel Costa Plente. Unbeknownst to them, three golddigging women plan to get the boys' money, but fail to do so. Shemp receives his prize money. which after taxes, is $4.85. 1952
It's Joe's camera, the picnic was his idea, and the photograph he took of a blowing paper plate belongs to him. But lazy cousins Moe and Larry interpret the photo as a snapshot of a flying saucer, and use it to win $10,000 in a magazine's candid photo contest. The magazine, however, gets wise to the fraud and throws Moe and Larry in jail. Lonely, Joe returns to the woods hoping to get a picture of a real flying saucer, and reunite his family. 1958
Sweepstakes winner Joe is taken to the cleaners by two conmen G. Y. Prince and R. O. Broad (aka "gyp" and "rob"). The Stooges head to their offices to get Joe's money back. Instead, they find two sympathetic businessmen (the two crooks, in disguise) who offer to pay back the losses if Moe, Larry and Joe will pose as juvenile wards for a rich and eccentric millionaire, Montgomery M. Montgomery. But Montgomery is actually Prince's and Broad's gang leader, and plotting to kill the Stooges. 1958
A depressed Joe is sulking about a lost love, Fifi, who he planned to marry years ago. The Stooges discover that Fifi has moved into the apartment across the hall and has locked herself out of her apartment. She also has a jealous husband who is a first class heel. Typical Stooge antics result in ruining Fifi's dress, and dressing her in a pair of pajamas is an invitation for her husband to enter the scene. Hiding her from disaster, Fifi overhears her hubbie's plans to divorce her, and slapstick mayhem ensues. 1958
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