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).
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
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 "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).
It is colonial times and the Stooges are tried by an English court for fighting some guards. They're sentenced to protect the colonies from the Indians. The Governor tries to make peace, but the Indian chief demands too high a price for the Pilgrims to pay for hunting privileges, so things look grim. The Stooges decide to hunt for the colonists anyway, and run into a lot of trouble with the Indians. 1937
In this box comedy, the Stooges run the Pip Boys Tailor Shop. They receive a bill for tailoring equipment, which will be repossessed if the bill is not paid. They hear on their radio that a robber named Terry Hargen is on the loose and a large reward is offered for his capture. Shemp thinks they should catch Hargen, collect the reward and pay their bill. Later on, the Stooges do meet up with Hargen and his henchmen. The boys thwart the bad guys, but a cop gets the reward. They manage to find money in Hargen's coat pocket and pay their debts off. 1947 Remade as RIP, SEW AND STITCH (1953), with stock footage.
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.
To keep Red Morgan and his gang from stealing the mine payroll, the bank president and local newspaper editor fake a story that three famous lawmen are coming to clean up the town, using a "wanted for vagrancy" leaflet featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp. The three arrive in town looking for a job cleaning the saloon, and bumbling circumstances turn against Red and his henchmen, who are soon subdued by the "three famous lawmen." A crooked Sheriff frees the Morgan gang from jail, and they follow the newly deputized Stooges to the old Horton place, supposedly haunted by a headless Indian, and now the new hiding place for the payroll. Posing as ghosts, the crooks begin stalking our heroes. 1951 A reworking of PHONY EXPRESS (1943).
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