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Original movie poster for the Three Stooges short film, Musty Musketeers - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Philp Van Zandt

Musty Musketeers

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Musty Musketeers is a remake of the Three Stooges 1948 short film, Fiddlers Three, with a new beginning and ending.  The middle segments, with the Stooges needing to shoe their mule, Sue, and rescuing the princess, are identical.  The new material is funny enough to justify watching the short, unlike many of their remakes.

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The Three Stooges perform "Niagara Falls" in "Gents Without Cents"

Gents Without Cents

movie review of the Three Stooges short film Gents Without Cents (1944) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

The Three Stooges (MoeLarry, and Curly) are three small time actors looking for a job. Gents Without Cents begins with them practicing their classic Slowly I Turned (aka. Niagara Falls) routine, when they’re interrupted by noisy dancers from upstairs, dropping the ceiling on Curly.  The Stooges go upstairs to confront those ‘guys’ only to discover that they’re three girl dancers in the same situation.

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An Ache in Every Stake (1941) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent

An Ache in Every Stake

An Ache in Every Stake – The Three Stooges are delivering ice up a very long stair case to a mansion, leading to the Stooges being hired as kitchen help. This leads to a turkey being stuffed as only Curly can, and Moe inflating a fallen cake with oven gas, leading to an explosive ending. One of the Three Stooges’ best shorts.

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