Articles tagged with the name “Eddie Laughton” – an actor who appeared in multiple of the Three Stooges short films
In Goofs and Saddles, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) are spies for the U.S. Cavalry in the Old West. They’re looking for cattle rustlers, pretend to be card gamblers, and run from their lives!
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Movie Maniacs, the Three Stooges’ 13th Columbia short, spoofs movie-making and, as Moe puts it, the thousands who know nothing about making them. It also gives us a wonderful chance to see a vaudeville routine with Curly in drag and Larry as the debonair suitor. Not to mention Moe’s method of teaching acting by having Larry and Curly manipulate a couple of actors like hand puppets.
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In They Stooge to Conga, Moe, Larry, and Curly are inept repairmen who are hired to fix a doorbell. Unknown to them, the house is secretly full of Nazi agents!
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Beer Barrel Polecats is set during Prohibition, when purchasing beer in the U.S.A. was illegal. But it was still legal to make your own beer for your own personal use. The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly) in Curly’s first short film made after his initial stroke proceed to do that. And the first half of the film is quite funny, as all three of them add yeast to their batch of beer – with explosive results. They finally manage to bottle all of their beer, and all’s well. Until Curly tries to sell a bottle to an undercover police officer at black market prices. And the Stooges end up going to jail.
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In Idle Roomers, Lupe the wolf man menaces the Three Stooges in a hotel!
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In False Alarms the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) are inept firefighters, who have once again missed the fire alarm, and they’re about to be fired by their long-suffering fire chief, (Stanley Blystone) when they beg and grovel their way to one last chance. No sooner do they get their last chance than Curly decides to sneak out of the firehouse to visit his girlfriend … who has dates for Larry and Moe as well.
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You Nazty Spy! is a rare treat of the Three Stooges. In addition to being a hysterically funny short film, You Nazty Spy! is also a political satire, and bears the honor of being the first anti-Nazi film parody
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