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
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.
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
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).
The Stooges learn that their pal Bill has gotten married, and decide to set-up his new antenna and television set as a present before moving out. In the process, they manage to thoroughly wreck his house! 1953
Foreign spy Bortch has stolen some secret government documents and hidden them in watermelons. He has the Stooges bring them to a ship where he will leave the country. When they arrive at the pier, the spy has locked them aboard the ship. The Stooges later find the melons as well as the stolen documents. They defeat Bortch, with plans to turn him over to the police. 1949
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 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).
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 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
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