Moe, Larry and Shemp are three bumbling interior decorators who manage to trash their clients' homes. Filmed before a live studio audience, as a pilot for a planned TV series on ABC, which unfortunately, was never picked up. Joseph Kearns (the original Mr. Wilson on TV's DENNIS THE MENACE 1959 - 1962) appears as the pressure-cooker salesman from Punxatawney, Pennsylvania. 1949
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.
Full Feature Movie. A compilation of clips from various Stooges shorts with Moe, Larry and Curly, intermixed with new footage featuring Paul Winchell and his dummies, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff. The clips present classic moments from OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (1939), HOW HIGH IS UP? (1940), VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY (1938), SOCK-A-BYE BABY (1942), HIGHER THAN A KITE (1943), WHAT'S THE MATADOR? (1942), GOOFS AND SADDLES (1937), CALLING ALL CURS (1939), MICRO-PHONIES (1945), A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) and HALF WITS HOLIDAY (1947). 1960
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
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.
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).
(1962) Three druggists travel with a Milquetoast inventor, Schuyler, and his girlfriend, Diane, to ancient Greece on a newly invented time machine...
Larry, Moe and Curly find an evicted woman and her daughter in financial trouble. They decide to helpher by betting the child's piggy bank on the horses. Two con men scam the boys out of the money when they buy a rundown horse named Seabiscuit. To boost his energy, Curly tries to blow a vitamin into the horse's puith, only to have it blown into his own mouth. He begins to act like a horse and Moe and Larry get him to a hospital where he bears a talking colt. 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).
Three amateur film makers try to get the executives of Masterpiece Pictures Corp. to exhibit their new movie, only to discover that they are sanitarium escapees. The short was produced as a way to showcase musical and dance performance footage that had been cut from MGM feature films. ROAST-BEEF & MOVIES was shot in 2-strip Technicolor to match that footage. Blue Daughter From Heaven (Chinese ballet) is taken from LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY (1929), and Dust is from CHILDREN OF PLEASURE (1930). 1934
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