Articles tagged with the name “Shemp Howard” – the original Third Stooge of the Three Stooges, and the only Stooge to have a successful career away from the trio
Tricky Dicks is a short film starring the Three Stooges that parodies TV and movie police shows, and does so in a very funny short film. The entire short film takes place inside of a police station, where the Stooges are all working as police officers – Sergeant Moe, and detectives Larry and Shemp.
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Heavenly Daze is a very funny, and somewhat different, Three Stooges short film. It begins with a deceased Shemp at the gates of Heaven. He’s interviewed by his uncle Mortimer (played by Moe Howard). Shemp’s name is not in the Lamb’s Book of Life … He is about to look for his “red pitchfork and asbestos suit” …. When Uncle Mortimer gives him a second chance … it turns out that Shemp’s cousins Moe and Larry are also in trouble, and if Shemp can return to Earth as an invisible ghost and turn them to the path of righteousness, he can return to Heaven for good. After a run-in with a rain cloud, Shemp is on his way.
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In Cuckoo on a Choo Choo, Larry has stolen a train car and kidnapped the rich drunkard Shemp. He needs to have Shemp marry Larry’s girlfriend’s older sister so that Larry can get married. Moe, working as a detective for the railroad, tracks them down, only to find his former love, the older sister. Shemp keeps drinking and hallucinating a giant canary. No, really.
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The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp), egged on by Larry’s sister, decide to make money by cheating on their income taxes. After the normal slapstick while preparing their taxes(with some very unusual “deductions”), they not only make a small fortune on their taxes, they decide to go into business by preparing other people’s tax returns as well. Soon they’re rolling in dough, hosting a meal for one of their rich clients (allowing for more food-related slapstick) – but all isn’t as it appears!
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Commotion on the Ocean – the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are would-be reporters tracking down a spy who turns out to be their neighbor!
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Many people remember Hold That Lion as the only short film where Curly appears along with Moe, Larry and Shemp. Technically, this is true, as Curly has a short cameo appearance as a sleeping man on a train. But I frankly remember it for the “fight scene” in the first half of the short film with Kenneth MacDonald. It’s a very funny Three Stooges short film in its’ own right, and well worth watching.
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After a visit to the doctor (played by Three Stooges regular Vernon Dent), Moe, Larry and Shemp travel to the American Old West for the sake of healing Shemp’s leg of an enlarged vein. Once there, the villainous Doc Barker mistakenly thinks that the map of Shemp’s vein is a map to a gold vein worth millions.
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