Elwood Ullman — Playwright (22)
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Listen Judge (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Listen Judge
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Listen, Judge
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
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Hot Ice (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hot Ice
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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Idle Roomers (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Idle Roomers
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
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Mummy's Dummies (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mummy's Dummies
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
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Idiots Deluxe (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Idiots Deluxe
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
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Fighting Trouble (1956) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Fighting Trouble
director: George Blair actor: Huntz Hall / Stanley Clements …
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
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Dopey Dicks (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dopey Dicks
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.
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Some More of Samoa (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Some More of Samoa
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
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Higher Than a Kite (1943) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Higher Than a Kite
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Cactus Makes Perfect
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
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Mutts to You (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mutts to You
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
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Playing the Ponies (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Playing the Ponies
director: Charles Lamont actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
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Saved by the Belle (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Saved by the Belle
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
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The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Three Stooges in Orbit
director: Edward Bernds actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Tres chiflados en órbita / 太空三劍客 …
The fate of the planet in the hands of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe? That's exactly the situation the trio finds themselves in when they befriend a wacky scientist and must defend his secret invention from a pair of malevolent Martians. Sight gags, slapstick and plenty of nyuks abound as the Stooges bumble their way through an adventure of intergalactic proportions.