The Stooges are "used chariot" salesmen in ancient Egypt, and try to gyp a customer who turns out to be the captain of the Pharoh's guard. He drags them to the palace to demand their execution, but the boys become the Pharaoh's chamberlains, instead, when Shemp cures the Pharaoh's toothache. Enjoying their new duties, the Stooges overhear a conversation between the captain and a corrupt tax collector, and discover a plot to steal the Pharaoh's gold! 1948
The Stooges are detectives and take a case to find a man's missing daughter. They dress as pie salesmen and investigate the area around where she was first missing. Discovering a spooky old house, they are locked in and come across a mad scientist, his hatchetman, and a gorilla. They eventually rescue the girl, with the help of the gorilla. 1953
A classic 3 Stooges short.
The Stooges come home after several months of unsuccessful prospecting only to find that a young, crippled boy and his older sister have moved into their City Dump shack. The Stooges attempt to invest the boy's operation money by buying a house that is supposed to contain Captain Kidd's treasure, but when they attempt to dig it up they break into the US Treasury instead! 1937
When Red Morgan and his gang invade Peaceful Gulch, the local editor prints a picture of the Stooges (who are wanted for vagrancy) as three famous marshals coming to clean up the town. When the Stooges show up in town, Red and his gang are worried until they find out the Stooges are just tramps, but when the gang tries to get them the Stooges manage to kncok them out instead. The boys get hired to guard the bank, but when Morgan and his gang rob it anyway, it's up to the Stooges to get the gold back! 1943
Moe, Larry and Curly are three out of work actors who have been hired as guides to get Nell and her Belles across the plains to San Francisco in time for their engagement, so of course they're in trouble. Bears steal their food, Indians tell them to scram (or else!), and Curly manages to frighten away their horses. After spending the night in a make-shift cabin (built out of stage scenery), the Indians come back and kidnap the girls while the Stooges are ice fishing. 1940
Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen (played, of course, by the Stooges). A several-million-dollar bet is made, and Quackenbush sets to training his three Lizas. Several months pass, and the newborn gentlemen attend a dinner party. They behave themselves for about two minutes. The short is capped off by a horrendous pie fight. Good line: "Why, you act as if the sword of Damocles was hanging over your head!" 1958
The Stooges learn in a letter that their father's life depends on an operation, but he doesn't have the money for it. He writes that his property has a uranium mine, and they're sure to strike it rich. So Moe, Larry & Joe head out to their father's cabin, while dealing with Joe's uncanny luck in wishes coming true. Finding no uranium, the Stooges still manage to create plenty of explosive mayhem. Deciding to call it quits, Joe's wishing ability comes through by turning up an oil strike on Papa's country homestead. 1958
The Stooges are singing waiters, whose silly antics inspire two doctors worried about little Betty Williams, whose father was kidnapped. Dressed as three little girls, complete with balloons and giant lollipops, the Stooges visit the girl in the hospital, but even they can't bring her around. The boys volunteer to find Mr. Williams (he's 5 ft. 10 inches tall in his stocking feet, has a tattoo on his shoulder, and yodels like this: Yodel-aydee-aydee-odalay-eeoo.) When they find him, they're chased by the crooks to the basement of the building where they have a final battle in pitch darkness. The Stooges emerge victorious and reunite Williams and his cured, healthy little girl. 1940
The boys begin the short as workmen getting chewed out by their boss. Fleeing from an unsuccessful attempt to repair a radiator, they end up in a recording studio, where Curly (in drag) is mistaken for an opera singer by a woman who sees the boys lip-synching to a recording made earlier in the day by Alice Andrews (Christine McIntyre). Invited to sing at a party that night, the boys bump into Signor Spumoni, who knows they are fakes, and Alice, who wants to win a job as a singer on her own to impress her father. Spumoni exposes the boys as fakes, and everyone realizes it was Alice who was the singer they were hearing. As the boys get what is coming to them, Christine's character is rewarded with the job. A good performance from Curly, considering he was not in the best of health when this short was made. 1945
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