The Best Three Stooges Shorts
Some are better than others and here are some gems. I like them ALL so this is a more concise list for beginners to start with.
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- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.my favorite
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardA professor plays Pygmalion to three bumbling garbagemen and tries to turn them into gentlemen.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardTo escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.Niagara Falls
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe three stooges employed as icemen attempt to deliver ice to a mountaintop house and are forced to cater for a birthday dinner there.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe Stooges take care of a house while their friend is getting married. Their friend wants them to get a TV and have an antenna installed on the house. The Stooges have a great idea. They decide to install the TV themselves and save the money for a wedding present. Shemp and Moe keep slipping on soap and having their head dunked in a bucket of water while cleaning the house. Larry totally wrecks the wall by setting it on fire and turning it into swiss cheese with a hammer. Shemp takes apart the TV and while installing the antenna, falls and breaks it. The friend comes back, married, and when his fat wife sees the house, she leaves him.some Shemps will mix in
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardShemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardMoe 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.
- DirectorArchie GottlerStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.the first Columbia short
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancées, but find they have been dispossessed and the weddings are off until they find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant apartment so they set up housekeeping in a vacant lot. Their housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their new home with a tractor. The stooges then build a house of their own, but the girls aren't impressed with the one room mansion and walk out on them.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardCurly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardIn a country, munitions manufacturers maneuver a wallpaper hanger to become dictator with his compatriots as his personal staff.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree bumbling gas station attendants are mistaken for college professors arriving from Germany to teach at a prestigious women's college.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are small-time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers, including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are tossed off the train.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show, the owner of an antique box the Stooges wrecked shows up, and a wild cream-puff fight ensues.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business ("There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make any difference".) They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curley as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the Stooges must leave on the run.