The stooges go west on vacation for Shemp's health, who has a swollen vein in his leg. At a saloon the stooges get acquainted with Nell & Shemp begins to tell her about his vein. Doc Barker overhears & thinks Shemp is talking about a hidden gold mine. Later the boys find out that Doc Barker stole the Red Dog Saloon from Nell & will kill her boyfriend the Arizona Kid if she doesn't marry him. After being freed from his cell the Arizona Kid rides to get the calvary but when they arrive find that the stooges have layed out the bad guys. 1947 Remade as PALS AND GALS (1954), with stock footage.
The Stooges are "Day and Night Plumbers," hired by the Norfleets, a rich married couple, to fix the plumbing in their basement while a social party is going on their mansion. The boys wreck the house with the plumbing: Shemp destroys the bathroom by flooding it, then drilling a hole through the floor, and later, Moe and Shemp connect the water pipes with the electrical pipes. Mr. and Mrs. Allen, two of the Norfleet's party guests, steal the Norfleet's Van Brocklin painting behind everyone's back. When the Norfleets notice their painting is missing, the Allens try to make their getaway, but the Stooges interfere and capture them. At the end, the painting is returned to the grateful Norfleets. 1949 A reworking of A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940). Remade as SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956), with stock footage.
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
Curly has invented a gold collar-button finder, and the Stooges immediately try their luck prospecting using their new invention. As they do so they run afoul of some grizzled desert rats, and discover the Lost Mine. After taking refuge in a ghost town hotel, they lock themselves and the gold in the safe, where the villainous prospectors immediately try to dynamite them out. 1942
The Stooges are electricians who are fired after messing up a job. They decide to go away for a long rest and check into Doc Mallard's Rest Home and Clinic. The Stooges soon learn that Doc Mallard is a quack and his clinic is designed to gyp people out of their money. The boys escape from the mad doctor and cure a man's bum foot in the process, resulting in a $1,000 reward. 1946 Curly's condition was so bad during production that Moe had to coach him line by line. Kenneth MacDonald's first appearance in a Stooge short
The Stooges are out-of-work actors who manage to wrangle themselves a job putting on their gag "bullfight" act during a fiesta in Mexico. On the bus trip to Mexico City they meet a beautiful senora named Delores, and when they run into her jealous husband at the bus stop Delores mistakenly ends up with their suitcase instead of her own. 1942
The Stooges are arrested for vagrancy, but the Judge releases them for lack of evidence. Working as door-to-door repairmen, the boys are hired to fix the wiring in a home. When the chef quits, they help out by making a disastorous birthday dinner for their employer, who turns out to be the Judge who released them! 1952 A reworking of two earlier Three Stooges comedies, with the electrician sequences adapted from THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943), and the cooking scenes adapted from AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941).
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.
In Heaven, Shemp is informed by his Uncle Mortimer that he can't get in unless he reforms Moe & Larry, who plan to use the money Shemp left them to sell a phony fountain pen invention. (It writes under whip cream). After haunting the two and foiling their plan, Shemp awakes and realizes it was all a dream, and he set his bed on fire with a cigarette. 1948
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