Here's an early Stooge short from 1934. This film is interesting in that Larry lost a tooth when a punch was mis-timed, and Curley broke his leg in a scene where he rode down a dumbwaiter. The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
Join Larry, Moe, and Curly as they search for secret treasure. Stay one step ahead of your landlord, Mr. G. Reedy while you hunt for clues in a variety of locations. Relive the hilarious antics of the The Three Stooges in this Hidden Object adventure.
From 1945, here is the Stooge short that many fans consider to be the best of them all. The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name. She wants to hide her singing career from her disapproving society parents while auditioning for Mrs. Bixby's "Krispy Krunchy" radio program. After a run-in with a pompous violinist, the boys find the record and Curly starts mimicking to it, dressed as a women. Mrs. Bixby witnesses their performance and is impressed enough to hire "Senorita Cucaracha" (Curly) and Senors "Mucho" and "Gusto" (Moe and Larry) for her radio program. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at a Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record over Curly's head. The real singer tries to help by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is discovered and the stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records.
Wee Wee Monsieur (1938) is the 29th of Columbia Pictures 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges. The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up accidently joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard Captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves and try to rescue their captain. This is the first short in which the Stooges sing the "Lollipop Song", which they would sing in later shorts. This is the first short in which the Stooges are told they must don a disguise and they disguise themselves in Santa Claus outfits.
Released in 1935. The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film
Released in 1934 and starring Moe, Larry, and Curley, the Stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
From 1958 comes Stooge short number 183, which is probably the best of the Joe Besser shorts. Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them that they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a millionaire. The boys go along with the plan, not realizing that the "millionaire" and his pretty niece are in on the scam and are planning to knock them off. The stooges foil the plan and recover Joe's money.
From 1941, the stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ("If it's a good picture it's out of Whack") who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the soldiers are asleep and the stooges make their escape.
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
This short makes extensive use of footage from the earlier short Boobs in Arms (1940). The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the boys are drafted into the army where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant.
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