Del Lord — Director (26)
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Black Oxfords (1924) IMDb TMDB
Black Oxfords
director: Del Lord actor: Sidney Smith / Vernon Dent …
In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.
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An Ache in Every Stake (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
An Ache in Every Stake
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
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The Loud Mouth (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Loud Mouth
director: Del Lord actor: Matt McHugh / Marjorie Kane …
other title: 大嘴巴
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
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The Dare-Devil (1923) IMDb TMDB
The Dare-Devil
director: Del Lord actor: Ben Turpin / Harry Gribbon …
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.
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Booby Dupes (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Booby Dupes
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
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Idle Roomers (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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Even as IOU (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Even as IOU
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Even As IOU
A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
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Some More of Samoa (1941) WikiData IMDb 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) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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Goofs and Saddles (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Goofs and Saddles
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain, but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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A Ducking They Did Go (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Ducking They Did Go
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
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Pop Goes the Easel (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pop Goes the Easel
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.