The Three Stooges.
by alexanderdavies-99382 | created - 25 Mar 2021 | updated - 25 Mar 2021 | PublicA list of their comedy shorts, plus cameo appearances.
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1. Soup to Nuts (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Frances McCoy, George Bickel
Votes: 560
2. Nertsery Rhymes (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A father tells bedtime stories to his three sons.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Votes: 318
3. Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier
Votes: 543
4. Beer and Pretzels (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy and the 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted annoys women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos leads to destruction of the business. At the end, Ted pursues another woman.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy
Votes: 410
5. Hello Pop (1933)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A 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.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Ted Healy, Henry Armetta, Moe Howard, Larry Fine
Votes: 123
6. Plane Nuts (1933)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Ted Healy, Curly Howard
Votes: 334
7. Meet the Baron (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy
Votes: 330
8. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,664
9. Myrt and Marge (1933)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Myrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his... See full summary »
Director: Al Boasberg | Stars: Myrtle Vail, Donna Damerel, Ray Hedge, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 118
10. Fugitive Lovers (1934)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hoping to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 228
11. Jailbirds of Paradise (1934)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Prison inmates stage a musical.
Director: Al Boasberg | Stars: Dorothy Appleby, Moe Howard, Shirley Ross, Muriel Evans
Votes: 29
12. Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Ted Healy, Bonnie Bonnell, Moe Howard, Curly Howard
Votes: 36
13. The Big Idea (1934)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy
Votes: 159
14. Hollywood Party (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner, Roy Rowland, George Stevens, Sam Wood | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Jack Pearl
Votes: 1,067
15. Woman Haters (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Director: Archie Gottler | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White
Votes: 1,177
16. Punch Drunks (1934)
G | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
Director: Lou Breslow | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 1,502
17. Men in Black (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Carmen Andre
Votes: 1,472
18. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A cruise ship heads south from L.A. with a variety of passengers - a reporter, a P.I., crooks, a general etc.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert
Votes: 750
19. Three Little Pigskins (1934)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
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.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lucille Ball
Votes: 1,079
20. Horses' Collars (1935)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet, then from a safe, meet ... See full summary »
Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 758
21. Restless Knights (1935)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
In Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the Queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the Queen is abducted on the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Geneva Mitchell
Votes: 700
22. Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 885
23. Uncivil Warriors (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, War
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lou Archer
Votes: 762
24. Pardon My Scotch (1935)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The stooges impersonate Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nat Carr
Votes: 729
25. Hoi Polloi (1935)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short
A professor plays Pygmalion to three bumbling garbagemen and tries to turn them into gentlemen.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Gail Arnold
Votes: 944
26. Three Little Beers (1935)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison
Votes: 927
27. Ants in the Pantry (1936)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Clara Kimball Young
Votes: 787
28. Movie Maniacs (1936)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business ("There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mildred Harris
Votes: 701
29. Half Shot Shooters (1936)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 644
30. Disorder in the Court (1936)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Baskovitch
Votes: 2,303
31. A Pain in the Pullman (1936)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges are small-time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers, including the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Loretta Andrews
Votes: 666
32. False Alarms (1936)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 684
33. Whoops, I'm an Indian! (1936)
17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
In the Old West, the Stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff, they disguise themselves... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Gail Arnold
Votes: 627
34. Slippery Silks (1936)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show, the owner of an antique box the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Loretta Andrews
Votes: 574
35. Grips, Grunts and Groans (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
Although circumstances force an over-matched Curly into a wrestling ring against a superior opponent, a spectator's perfume proves to be his secret weapon.
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bob Callahan
Votes: 720
36. Dizzy Doctors (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover that Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eva Murray
Votes: 711
37. 3 Dumb Clucks (1937)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Frank Austin
Votes: 635
38. Back to the Woods (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Western
A 17th Century English judge orders three miscreants to defend the new British colonies in New England against its residential Native Americans.
Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Curtis
Votes: 595
39. Goofs and Saddles (1937)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Western, Short
Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Cavalry; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Hank Bell
Votes: 562
40. Cash and Carry (1937)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boy's operation, they buy a phony treasure map from two con men. Thinking... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Sonny Bupp
Votes: 597
41. Playing the Ponies (1937)
Passed | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 557
42. The Sitter Downers (1937)
G | 16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Charles Dorety
Votes: 592
43. Termites of 1938 (1938)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 554
44. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)
Passed | 18 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eugene Borden
Votes: 547
45. Start Cheering (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly, Joan Perry, Charles Starrett
Votes: 267
46. Tassels in the Air (1938)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for "Omay", a famous decorator (the real Omay gets "... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Gertrude Astor
Votes: 576
47. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)
Not Rated | 16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Burns
Votes: 587
48. Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Three bumbling gas station attendants are mistaken for college professors arriving from Germany to teach at a prestigious women's college.
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Samuel Adams
Votes: 940
49. Three Missing Links (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Monte Collins
Votes: 547
50. Mutts to You (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bess Flowers
Votes: 539
51. Flat Foot Stooges (1938)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 531
52. Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)
TV-G | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Phyllis Barry
Votes: 494
53. We Want Our Mummy (1939)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 643
54. A Ducking They Did Go (1939)
G | 17 min | Comedy, Short
Con men hire the Stooges to sell memberships to a phony duck hunting club.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lynton Brent
Votes: 618
55. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Western, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 584
56. Saved by the Belle (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 517
57. Calling All Curs (1939)
G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The 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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Beatrice Blinn
Votes: 563
58. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Comingore
Votes: 658
59. Three Sappy People (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lorna Gray
Votes: 639
60. You Nazty Spy! (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
In a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Don Beddoe
Votes: 1,134
61. Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
The 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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Comingore
Votes: 462
62. A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
TV-G | 18 min | Comedy, Short
To escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 1,200
63. Nutty But Nice (1940)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Three bumbling waiters try to help a clinically depressed little girl by locating her kidnapped father.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lynton Brent
Votes: 510
64. How High Is Up? (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 555
65. From Nurse to Worse (1940)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 541
66. No Census, No Feeling (1940)
TV-G | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 643
67. Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
18 min | Short, Comedy
The 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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 516
68. Boobs in Arms (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Richard Fiske
Votes: 596
69. So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
17 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 492
70. Dutiful But Dumb (1941)
17 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eddie Acuff
Votes: 552
71. All the World's a Stooge (1941)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Three bumbling window washers are mistaken for dentists and run amok at an affair in the home of a rich socialite.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lelah Tyler
Votes: 587
72. Time Out for Rhythm (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Kitty Brown, the maid of Frances Lewis, a nightclub star, gets a Hollywood contract after Frances' fiancé forbids her to appear in the club.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller, Rosemary Lane, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 365
73. I'll Never Heil Again (1941)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mary Ainslee
Votes: 721
74. An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The three stooges employed as icemen attempt to deliver ice to a mountaintop house and are forced to cater for a birthday dinner there.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Wilson Benge
Votes: 657
75. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 589
76. Some More of Samoa (1941)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree.... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Mary Ainslee
Votes: 424
77. Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Appleby
Votes: 461
78. Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)
17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Ernie Adams
Votes: 494
79. What's the Matador? (1942)
17 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Suzanne Kaaren
Votes: 447
80. Matri-Phony (1942)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
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, ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry Edwards, Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie Deanne
Votes: 432
81. Three Smart Saps (1942)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
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.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Julie Gibson
Votes: 477
82. Even as IOU (1942)
16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Ruth Skinner
Votes: 373
83. My Sister Eileen (1942)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy
Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias
Votes: 1,733
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84. Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 462
85. They Stooge to Conga (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, War
The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 565
86. Dizzy Detectives (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Botiller
Votes: 641
87. Spook Louder (1943)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
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... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 595
88. Back from the Front (1943)
19 min | Short, Comedy, War
Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by various means, such as Moe ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 508
89. Three Little Twirps (1943)
15 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Chester Conklin
Votes: 397
90. Higher Than a Kite (1943)
18 min | Short, Comedy, War
After being accidentally dropped behind enemy lines, the Stooges disguise themselves and steal important plans from the Nazi high command.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 553
91. I Can Hardly Wait (1943)
19 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lew Davis
Votes: 527
92. Dizzy Pilots (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bobby Barber
Votes: 560
93. Phony Express (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 442
94. A Gem of a Jam (1943)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dudley Dickerson
Votes: 495
95. Crash Goes the Hash (1944)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local socialite. The boys disguise as servants and ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Curtis
Votes: 507
96. Busy Buddies (1944)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
To save their debt-ridden diner, the Stooges enter a cow milking contest.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Arno
Votes: 480
97. The Yoke's on Me (1944)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to "do their bit" by becoming farmers. For $1000 plus the car, the boys buy a run down farm with no livestock. They acquire an escaped ostrich that eats gunpowder and lays explosive eggs.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Emmett Lynn
Votes: 453
98. Idle Roomers (1944)
TV-G | 17 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Duke York
Votes: 541
99. Gents Without Cents (1944)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lindsay Bourquin
Votes: 646
100. No Dough Boys (1944)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on causing the proprietor to ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 460
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