Felix Adler — Playwright (27)
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pick a Peck of Plumbers
director: Jules White actor: El Brendel / Shemp Howard …
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Horsing Around (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Horsing Around
director: Jules White actor: Joe Besser / Larry Fine …
A sequel (sort of) to "Hoofs and Goofs", The stooges are taking care of their sister Birdie who has been reincarnated as a horse. When they learn that her mate "Schnapps", a famous circus horse, is about to be destroyed, they got to the circus grounds to rescue him. The stooges are successful, and Birdie and Schnapps are reunited.
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Hiss and Yell (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hiss and Yell
director: Jules White actor: Barbara Jo Allen / Barton Yarborough …
Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
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Scrambled Brains (1951) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scrambled Brains
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
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Pest Man Wins (1951) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pest Man Wins
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
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Stone Age Romeos (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stone Age Romeos
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
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Flagpole Jitters (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Flagpole Jitters
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
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Booty and the Beast (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Booty and the Beast
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Bedlam in Paradise (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bedlam in Paradise
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Shemp 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, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's plans in an effort to get through the pearly gates.
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He Cooked His Goose (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
He Cooked His Goose
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiancée. When Moe becomes suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job as a door-to-door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment, and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancée to go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.
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Musty Musketeers (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Musty Musketeers
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: The Three Stooges in musty muskeeters
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
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Love at First Bite (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love at First Bite
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The Stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
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Dunked in the Deep (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dunked in the Deep
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
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Gypped in the Penthouse (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gypped in the Penthouse
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge.
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Even as IOU (1942) [Movie] 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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Loco Boy Makes Good (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Loco Boy Makes Good
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.
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Goofs and Saddles (1937) [Movie] 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.