6th and really final list of comedy shorts
I swear this is the last one now.
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- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work, they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight and they find Garcon, only to discover that "he" has had a litter of puppies.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardAlthough circumstances force an over-matched Curly into a wrestling ring against a superior opponent, a spectator's perfume proves to be his secret weapon.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
- 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.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardSet 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.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsTed HealyHenry ArmettaMoe HowardA stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardSet in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe Stooges are cavalrymen in the old west, who are hired to track down the Dillons, a notorious outlaw gang with the help of a pretty female barkeeper and her boyfriend, a handsome cowboy,
- 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.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives, leave on the run.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineJoe BesserTold in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and relaxation. After a marauding bear ruined the peace and quiet, their cabin became the scene of a shoot-out between the sheriff and an escaped outlaw. The boys captured the bad guy, and the reward would have paid Moe's debts, but the crook escaped and Moe went after Larry and Joe with an ax.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsJoe BesserJim HawthorneSteve CalvertJoe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsDavid DurandGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsShemp HowardA young fighter discovers that the money he has been saving for college has been stolen by his rival.shemp
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyPhil BloomSwept up in a police raid, Stan and Ollie are sentenced to jail and land in a jail labor camp. The governor visits, accompanied by two flappers, where the duo accidentally create rice pudding for a food fight.I used a lot of laurel and hardys on previous lists
- DirectorsJames ParrottLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar KennedyWhen Laurel visits Hardy at home, hi-jinx occur and the Mrs. orders them out. They go to a golf course where they try to impress two young ladies and wind up in a mud-slinging fight with other golfers.
- DirectorEdgar KennedyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyWilson BengeStan and Ollie are musicians whose antics at a band concert end in their employment being terminated, and they must turn to busking to make ends meet. However, playing on street corners proves to be more perilous than they had imagined.
- DirectorsClyde BruckmanLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJack AdamsA scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonThrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyJames BurkeA thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.Thelma Todds now
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyMatthew BetzThelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot that does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, which adds to the girls' problems.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyArthur HousmanPatsy inherits a diving suit and a map, so she takes Thelma and a drunken sea captain-turned-plumber on a treasure hunt.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsZasu PittsThelma ToddBlanche PaysonThelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of their colds.