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Three Stooges short film Monkey Businessmen (1946) starring the Three Stooges - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

Monkey Businessmen

Three Stooges short film Monkey Businessmenstarring the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) released June 20, 1946

In Monkey Businessmen, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly), after being fired for gross incompetence as electricians, decide that they need a vacation.  Unfortunately, they decide to visit Mallard’s rest home, a crooked enterprise that exists to bilk their clients of every last penny.  (This is Kenneth MacDonald’s first appearance in a Three Stooges short film as the con man).  The Stooges soon realize this, and attempt to escape.  But after being pursued, beaning the male “nurses” with weights, pretending to be surgeons (and nearly operating on Curly), being locked in a steam room (and escaping as Curly chases a shapely nurse, culminating in one of the funniest moments in Stooge history, they vanquish the bad guys, and cure a rich hypochondriac.  Deciding after all that, that they need a vacation! A very funny short movie, and highly recommended.

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The Three Stooges - Tricky Dicks - movie poster

Tricky Dicks

Tricky Dicks starring the Three Stooges – Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, originally released May 7, 1953

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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