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).
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).
Shemp is sick, and the Stooges' "know-it-all" friend Claude recommends that they take Shemp on a camping trip. Of course, he sells them everything they need, including a car. The Stooges practice putting up the tent... in their living room. When they try to get the car ready for the trip, they discover it's a piece of junk, and have all kinds of problems, especially with the tires. But when an avid car collector turns up, Claude quickly pays the Stooges back so he can sell it to the collector for more money, only the "collector" turns out to be an escaped lunatic! 1948
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
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
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
The Stooges are three exterminators mistaken for B.O. Pictures' publicity department. In order to make the studio's lovely new actress famous overnight, they come up with a plan to fake her kidnapping, but some gangsters overhear them and plan to make it real. The Stooges have to rescue Miss Devore themselves, when the police captain dismisses their story as just a publicity stunt. 1950
The Stooges are three Union spies who infiltrate the Confederate headquarters of General Butts. They manage to trick him into revealing the Southern army's true strength, but are later exposed as spies and have to make a run for it. 1935
Curly, Moe, and Larry, NYC garbage barge sailors, wash ashore on an island stuck in the 17th century, and ruled by a tyrranical Governor. With the help of the lovely Rita Yolanda, and using the ruse of a nearsighted Maharajah and his entourage, they go in search of a pirate named Black Louie who will ferry them to the mainland. Unfortunately, the Governor and Louie are well-acquainted, and the pirate forces the Stooges to engage in a deadly knife-throwing contest to purchase their freedom from the island.
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