Articles tagged with the name “Vernon Dent”, one of the most prolific of the Three Stooges’ regular co-stars, the “Stooge Heavy”
Like many of the Three Stooges’ short films, Busy Buddies is broken into two halves, starting with Moe, Larry and Curly as inept restaurant owners, and ending with a milking contest in an attempt to earn one hundred dollars.
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The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) are clearly in their prime, and it shows in this collection, with some of their best short films.
Read More »The Three Stooges Collection volume 4 (1943-1945)
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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Slippery Silks begins with a photograph of the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) dressed as young children, which a lawyer is trying to use, with the help of the police, to find these three nephews of a recently-deceased man. “That’s the only photograph we could find among his effects. The old man died very suddenly.” “Probably took a look at the picture and couldn’t stand the shock.” It turns out that the Three Stooges have inherited a “swanky dress shop.” In the meantime, those three missing nephews are working as “artistic woodworkers” where the rich Mr. Morgan (played by Three Stooges regular Vernon Dent) is bringing his $50,000 ornate box from a museum, to have a duplicate made. The inevitable destruction of that poor little Chinese box is hilarious, slowly building up to a crescendo of slapstick, and is the highlight of the film.
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In I’ll Never Heil Again, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) mock the Nazis in this classic short film
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The Three Stooges short film Yes, We Have No Bonanzas is set in the American West, where Moe and Larry are singing in a saloon with their three sweethearts, while Curly is late. The owner of the saloon, the villainous Maxey (played by Dick Curtis), is unhappy with their performance, and the girls reveal that they’re being blackmailed into working for Maxey, or he’ll have their father thrown into jail for his debts.
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Rip, Sew and Stitch (1953) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard) and Vernon Dent Rip, Sew and Stitch can charitably be… Read More »Rip, Sew and Stitch
