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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In Phony Express, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) are vagrants in the Old West, mistaken for lawmen, who have to guard the bank .. and once they fail at that, they have to capture the bandits and recover the gold … or else!
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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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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.
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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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