MyMovies: The Three Stooges 08
three stooges shorts
List activity
467 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
- 21 titles
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardShemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#01
7/4/52 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#02
3/8/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardA campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild fight.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#03
10/16/52 - DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardTo escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#04
4/19/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardLarry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in love with "Carry", an imaginary giant canary. Moe is an investigator from the railroad, sent to discover how the car was stolen from a moving train. Moe is also in love with Shemp's girl. Shemp winds up with both women, but still prefers his imaginary canary.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#05
12/4/52 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#06
6/1/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges' father strikes it rich in oil and immediately issues divorce papers to his wife. He plans to marry a gold digging younger woman unless the boys can disrupt the proceedings.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#07
2/5/53 - DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#08
7/26/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#09
3/5/53 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#10
8/23/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#11
4/2/53 - DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#12
10/4/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#13
5/7/53 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girls' hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#14
11/15/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. They disguise themselves as pie salesmen and end up wandering in a mad scientist's mansion trying to find her. They confront a gorilla and various other creepy characters.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#15
7/15/53 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#16
12/27/40 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe Stooges' ten-year engagement to their fiances has reached the end of their future father-in-law's patience. He gives them a week to earn enough money to marry his daughters, or they'll be promised to the three plumbers down the street.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#17
8/15/53 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancée is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#18
2/7/41 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#19
9/3/53 - DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe 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.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#20
3/21/41 - DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges run a local drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by Amos Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks out his wife for being old, the stooges try to help her by inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the boys their store for free if they'll transform him as well. They agree, but he turns into a gorilla after he swallows the serum, and the boys overcome him.AntennaTV
disc#08
title#21
10/8/53