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Three Stooges

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  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Playing the Ponies (1937)

    1. Playing the Ponies

    193715mApprovedShort
    7.4 (588)
    The stooges are cheated into trading their restaurant for Thunderbolt, a washed-up race horse, and enter the horse racing industry. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water trough. The boys quickly discover Thunderbolt's sudden burst of speed and enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race. Finally, the stooges enjoy the good life as they each eat their own turkey and Thunderbolt eats peanuts out of a large bowl in celebration.
    DirectorCharles LamontStarsCurly HowardLarry FineMoe Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, June Gittelson, Marcia Healy, and Curly Howard in The Sitter Downers (1937)

    2. The Sitter Downers

    193716mApprovedShort
    7.4 (632)
    The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)

    3. Wee Wee Monsieur

    193818mApprovedShort
    7.2 (577)
    The stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up 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 as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jean Carmen, Earlene Heath, Curly Howard, and Lucille Lund in Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)

    4. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb

    193816mApprovedShort
    7.5 (621)
    Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and The Three Stooges in 3 Dumb Clucks (1937)

    5. Three Little Sew and Sews

    193919mApprovedShort
    7.3 (526)
    Three tars help thwart an enemy plot to steal the Navy's latest submarine.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and The Three Stooges in 3 Dumb Clucks (1937)

    6. Yes, We Have No Bonanza

    193916mApprovedShort
    7.5 (615)
    Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in You Nazty Spy! (1940)

    7. You Nazty Spy!

    194018mApprovedShort
    7.8 (1.2K)
    In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Bud Jamison in So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)

    8. So Long Mr. Chumps

    194117mShort
    7.3 (519)
    The 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.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Mary Ainslee, and Curly Howard in I'll Never Heil Again (1941)

    9. I'll Never Heil Again

    194118mApprovedShort
    7.9 (769)
    A follow up to "You Nazty Spy", the stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Suzanne Kaaren in What's the Matador? (1942)

    10. What's the Matador?

    194217mShort
    7.5 (475)
    The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Marjorie Deanne, Curly Howard, and Ethelreda Leopold in Matri-Phony (1942)

    11. Matri-Phony

    194217mApprovedShort
    7.2 (461)
    The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass off Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they are caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
    DirectorsHarry EdwardsDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Three Little Beers (1935)

    12. Three Smart Saps

    194217mApprovedShort
    7.5 (502)
    Weddings are paused for the stooges who are engaged to the daughters of a prison warden. He has been framed by criminals and convicted. They make entry to the prison and find the crooks running a casino. They need photos to expose them.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Suzanne Ridgway, and Ruth Skinner in Even as IOU (1942)

    13. Even as IOU

    194216mShort
    6.9 (400)
    A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)

    14. Sock-a-Bye Baby

    194218mApprovedShort
    7.2 (486)
    The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Spook Louder (1943)

    15. Spook Louder

    194317mUnratedShort
    7.5 (634)
    The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist goes to Washington to demonstrate his death-ray machine to the government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and The Three Stooges in 3 Dumb Clucks (1937)

    16. Higher Than a Kite

    194318mShort
    7.3 (577)
    After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Shirley Patterson in Phony Express (1943)

    17. Phony Express

    194317mApprovedShort
    7.3 (473)
    Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money.
    DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Theodore Lorch in If a Body Meets a Body (1945)

    18. If a Body Meets a Body

    194518mApprovedShort
    7.7 (658)
    Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven cents.
    DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard
  • Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Three Little Pirates (1946)

    19. Three Little Pirates

    194618mShort
    7.7 (613)
    Three bumbling sailors from a garbage scow are marooned on an island where the anachronistic inhabitants seem trapped in the 17th Century.
    DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly Howard

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