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1952
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While this Three Stooges short meanders with little rhyme or reason, it does contain a number of good gags. The cops are on...
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1948
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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1946
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In this musical, a group of veterans and their gals put on an amateur show at the summer resort being visited by a Broadway...
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1946
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This second entry in the Bowery Boys series plays more like an extended 2-reeler than a feature film, perhaps because its...
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1946
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I Love a Bandleader is an easy-to-take vehicle for personable orchestra leader Phil Harris. "Old Curly" is cast as...
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1945
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The Blonde From Brooklyn is perky Susan Parker (Lynn Merrick), gainfully employed as a "jukebox singer", back in the days...
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1945
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In this tuneful comedy, an opera talent scout is in the country one day when he overhears a beautiful hillbilly milkmaid...
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1945
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In this, their second two-reel comedy of 1945, the Three Stooges play fishmongers who decide to buy a boat and catch their...
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1945
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In their first two-reel comedy of 1945, the Three Stooges mistakenly believe that Curly killed a man (actually a store...
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1945
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Let's Go Steady was Columbia's annual "audition" musical, spotlighting the studio's latest crop of young contractees. Cheated...
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1945
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1945
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Although this isn't one of the better Three Stooges shorts, it still has its moments. The boys play bellhops at "Hotel Snazzy...
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1944
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In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room,...
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1944
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When their short-order restaurant -- The Jive Cafe -- only serves up mounting bills, the Three Stooges enter Curly in a...
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1944
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In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and is...
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1944
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While The Three Stooges made a number of propaganda-laced comedies during World War II, the Axis references are relatively...
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1943
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Jules White, the head of the short subjects department at Columbia, steered quite a few Three Stooges comedies into...
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1943
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In spite of its name, Peaceful Gulch is riddled by bullets and bad guys. The sheriff needs some men either brave enough or...
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1943
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This clever Three Stooges comedy opens, like many of their films do, with a sign: "Drs. Heart-Burns and Belcher." But that's...
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1943
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The Three Stooges are literally dropped on wartime Berlin in this two-reel comedy, one of their weakest. They play auto...
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1943
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In his first 2-reel comedy of 1943, hayseed comic El Brendel plays a newlywed who keeps running into his new wife's former...
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1943
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Having been teamed unsuccessfully with Tom Kennedy and the eccentric Elsie Ames, El Brendel was paired with Columbia...
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1943
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In one of their all-time most hilariously insane comedy two-reelers, the Three Stooges save a destitute mother and her child...
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1942
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Mobster Louie the Wolf (Eddie Featherstone) sends an unsuspecting handyman (Buster Keaton) to gather up the collection money...
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1941
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When wealthy Mrs. Bullion informs her husband, Ajax that they are adopting a "little refugee" -- a common event amongst...
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1941
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The Three Stooges are tree surgeons in this comic short. An irascible old man is driving both his wife and his nurse up a...
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1941
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The second in a series of Columbia 2-reel comedies starring El Brendel, Ready, Willing But Unable was the first of four to...
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1941
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Arguably the best of the 19 2-reel comedies Swedish-accented comedian El Brendel would do for the busy Columbia short subject...
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1941
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The Three Stooges star as inept photographers in this comic short. When they screw up their latest assignment -- getting a...
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1941
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The Three Stooges play ice delivery men in this comic short. It's a hot day, and they've been cooling off in the back of the...
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1941
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A typical service farce, this Columbia 2-reeler featured Swedish-accented El Brendel ("Yumpin' Yimminy!") as an unwilling...
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1941
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Veteran comedians El Brendel and Tom Kennedy played patrolmen tangling with the ubiquitous mad scientist (serial villain...
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Director
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1941
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At the start of this comic short, the Three Stooges are unemployed. They've been sleeping in the awning of a swap shop and...
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1940
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One of The Three Stooges best Columbia shorts, this picture begins with the boys in a typical situation -- they're down and...
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Director
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1940
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This Three Stooges comedy has no story to speak of, but it's loaded with great gags. The boys are fix-it men who are sleeping...
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Director
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1940
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In Charley Chase's best Columbia short, he's practically be the same charater he played in Laurel and Hardy's 1934 feature...
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Director
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1940
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Only Charley Chase could wind up in jail as the result of his stamp collecting, and that's only the beginning of his woes in...
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Director
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1940
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The first, and best, of ten comedy two-reelers Buster Keaton was to make for the Columbia short subject department, Pest From...
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Director
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1939
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As so often in their comic shorts, The Three Stooges start off here in the ranks of the gainfully unemployed. After an...
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Director
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1939
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Charley Chase finds himself in a lot of trouble with his fiancee and her socially prominent family when a gossip column...
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Director
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1939
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In this Columbia two-reeler, the villagers of a rural township are up in arms over an edict that declares they must be...
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1939
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In this comic short, The Three Stooges play singing waiters in a saloon out West. Their songs are accompanied by three pretty...
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1939
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The Three Stooges found themselves in Egypt in this typical two-reel farce, the team's second release of 1939. Hired by the...
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1939
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The Three Stooges play aspiring artists in this comic short. They're honing their craft in "Paris -- somewhere in France" (as...
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1938
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The Three Stooges play inept Navy tailors for the Republic of Telvana in this comic short. The Admiral has been invited to a...
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Director
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1938
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Almost like a special bonus, the slapstick of this Three Stooges short is sprinkled with a few dashes of subtle humor. When...
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Director
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1938
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The Three Stooges strike it rich -- at least temporarily -- in this comic short. While Moe and Larry are playing cards (using...
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1938
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Charley Chase's wedding plans hit a snag when he saves a gangster's moll (Ann Doran) from a falling carton of canned goods....
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1938
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In her third Three Stooges short, pretty Harley Wood (aka Harlene Wood) played a young girl living with her crippled kid...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a cop is ashamed because a fearful moment prevented him from stopping a bank robbery. He feels so bad...
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1937
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In his fifth two-reeler for Columbia, Charley Chase plays a soda jerk with an overwhelming passion for detective magazines....
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1937
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The ever-growing unionization during the 1930s forms the very basis for this Three Stooges short. The Stooges are courting...
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1937
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The Three Stooges actually play different characters here (or at least they have different names, different hairstyles, and...
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1937
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This Three Stooges comedy is especially fast-paced. The boys wake up at their usual time -- 11 a.m. -- and fix themselves...
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1937
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This Three Stooges comedy is actually a send up of Universal's Deanna Durbin film, Three Smart Girls. But instead of a trio...
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1937
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Back in 1936 it was assumed that, once perfected, television would be a two-way device, enabling viewers to transmit as well...
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1936
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The Three Stooges play firemen in this comic short. While the other firemen are off fighting a fire, the Stooges are still...
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1936
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The Three Stooges play slap-happy exterminators in this comic short. The Lightning Pest Control Company is having trouble...
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1936
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In one of the Three Stooges' lesser comedies, the boys play a trio of Northwest frontier con artists. They are on the run...
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1936
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Produced by the team that also gave the world The Three Stooges, this hillbilly comedy was the first of two Columbia...
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1936
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The Three Stooges try to break into show business in this Columbia short subject. They're first seen as stowaways on a train...
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1936
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1935
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This is one of the earlier Three Stooges shorts, and one of the funniest. It opens on an exclusive restaurant where two...
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1935
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Prohibition has recently ended, and alcoholic beverages are very much in demand in this Three Stooges short. A druggist is...
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1935
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1935
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It's the Great Depression and The Three Stooges are having a hard time finding work. And no wonder -- they hold up signs...
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1935
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1933
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1932
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1932
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Del Lord, director of many a Three Stooges farce in the 1930s and 1940s, told the actors when to move and when not to move in...
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1929
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1929
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Perhaps it's just as well that Topsy and Eva is available only for archival showings. The film was based on a popular play by...
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1927
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1927
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1925
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This film from 1925 features Billy Bevan trying to deal with radio-controlled Model-T Fords. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1925
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1925
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While this comedy was pretty standard fare for producer Mack Sennett in the 1920s, it is notable for being the first film in...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1923
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