The Three Stooges: Worst to Best
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1.
The Frank Sinatra Show (1950–1952)
Episode:
Episode #2.13
(1952)
Music
It's New Year's Eve, and Frank Sinatra is throwing his big annual New Year's Eve party, with plenty of guests and entertainment. He hires three servants to take care of the guests and help ... See full summary »
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Yvonne De Carlo, Vernon Dent
2. Fish Hooky (1910)
10 min | Short
Moe tries his hand at fishing, In true "pre-stooge" fashion, problems ensue.
Star: Moe Howard
3.
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955)
Episode:
What Do You Want in a Show
(1955)
Comedy
Three dimwitted crooks break into a bank but end up, by mistake, in the U.S. Mint.
Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Julie Bennett, Ida Tobias Cantor, Toni Carroll
4. Blazing Stewardesses (1975)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Western
Junket stewardesses land on a gambling ranch whose owner (Bob Livingston) is plagued by hooded riders.
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Livingston, Don 'Red' Barry, Geoffrey Land
Votes: 580
5. Horsing Around (1957)
16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Tony the Horse
Votes: 230
6. Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Richard Deacon, Joey Adams
Votes: 280
7. Hoofs and Goofs (1957)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Joe dreams that the stooge's sister Birdie has died and been reincarnated as a horse. The stooges take Birdie home but must conceal her from the snoopy landlord. They succeed, but more ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Benny Rubin
Votes: 288
8. Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Ted Healy, Bonnie Bonnell, Moe Howard, Curly Howard
Votes: 36
9. Gold Raiders (1951)
Passed | 56 min | Comedy, Family, Western
On his way to Red Mesa to insure mine owners against loss from raids on their ore shipments, George O'Brien is ambushed by the raiders, and is accidentally saved by the Three Stooges who ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: George O'Brien, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine
Votes: 288
10.
The Ed Wynn Show (1949–1950)
Episode:
Helen Forrest, The Three Stooges
(1950)
Comedy, Music
Ed approaches three CBS network executives (played by the Three Stooges) seeking help to improve his program.
Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Ed Wynn, The Three Stooges, Helen Forrest, William Frawley
Votes: 25
11. Meet the Baron (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
The famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy
Votes: 331
12. Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. Featuring The Three Stooges as waiters.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Gale Storm, Phil Regan, Moe Howard, Larry Fine
Votes: 439
13. Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Military Academy instructor Oliver Yates is 4-F and losing the respect of his students. He quits to join up but ends up working in a shipyard. His rival Charlie for girlfriend Ruth uses the... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Claire Trevor, Jess Barker, Edgar Buchanan, Tom Neal
Votes: 106
14. The Big Idea (1934)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy
Votes: 159
15. Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
Approved | 85 min | History, Musical
A vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.
Directors: Willard Mack, Jules White | Stars: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Jackie Cooper, Russell Hardie
Votes: 349
16. Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973)
R | 89 min | Horror
An evil immortal magician on a killing spree targets one specific couple in an attempt to prolong his life through soul transference.
Director: Eddie Saeta | Stars: John Considine, Barry Coe, Cheryl Miller, Stewart Moss
Votes: 309
17. Kook's Tour (1970)
Not Rated | 53 min | Comedy, Family
After nearly 50 years of eye-poking and face-slapping, the Stooges decide to retire and tour the world with their dog, Moose. They start by touring America's national parks, however, with ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Norman Maurer
Votes: 237
18. Beer and Pretzels (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy and the 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted annoys women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos leads to destruction of the business. At the end, Ted pursues another woman.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Ted Healy
Votes: 410
19. 4 for Texas (1963)
Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Western
Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress
Votes: 3,658
20. The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
The Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Carol Christensen
Votes: 1,025
21. Rockin' in the Rockies (1945)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Family
While Rusty Williams is away at college, he leaves his cousin, Shorty Williams, in charge of his large ranch. Shorty, more concerned with his prospecting ambitions, wanders into town ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Keays | Stars: The Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Votes: 387
22. Plane Nuts (1933)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Ted Healy, Curly Howard
Votes: 334
23. Nertsery Rhymes (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A father tells bedtime stories to his three sons.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Votes: 318
24. Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.
Directors: Walter Lang, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Carol Heiss, Joe DeRita
Votes: 1,184 | Gross: $2.62M
25. Soup to Nuts (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Ted Healy, Charles Winninger, Frances McCoy, George Bickel
Votes: 561
26. Guns a Poppin! (1957)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Told in flashback, Moe is on trial for assaulting Larry and Joe. It seems that Moe was in debt and suffering a nervous breakdown so Larry and Joe took him to the country for rest and ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Frank Sully
Votes: 216
27. Space Ship Sappy (1957)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An eccentric scientist tricks the stooges into joining himself and his daughter on an expedition to Venus. On Venus, the boys go exploring and encounter some cannibalistic amazons who plan ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Doreen Woodbury
Votes: 285
28. Outer Space Jitters (1957)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The Stooges accompany Professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer Earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Emil Sitka
Votes: 316
29. Muscle Up a Little Closer (1957)
17 min | Comedy, Short
It was great seeing that gorgeous Tiny Ray squash Elmo Drake. Go Tiny.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Maxine Gates
Votes: 275
30. Space Master X-7 (1958)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A fungus brought from space threatens to grow and spread, devouring everyone in its path.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas, Robert Ellis, Paul Frees
Votes: 449
31. Sweet and Hot (1958)
17 min | Comedy, Short
Nightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny to join the act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of people. They take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and the act is a success.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Muriel Landers
Votes: 302
32. Triple Crossed (1959)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancée. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Angela Stevens
Votes: 215
33. Sappy Bull Fighters (1959)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Stranded in Mexico, the stooges need a job and an actress gets them one. They accidentally switch suitcases with her and go to retrieve it but are confronted by her violent, jealous husband. At the arena they perform a comedy bullfight.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen
Votes: 295
34. Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959)
76 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
The 3 Stooges are cleaners at a spaceport when they accidentally take off and land on Venus. The boys encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula and an alien computer that creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 1,004
35. Star Spangled Salesman (1968)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Carl Reiner, Carol Burnett
Votes: 32
36. Flying Saucer Daffy (1958)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate, which Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Gail Bonney
Votes: 280
37. Saved by the Belle (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 517
38. Pies and Guys (1958)
17 min | Comedy, Short
A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiquette, the boys make their society debut at a fancy party. They soon revert to their old habits and a wild pie fight ensues.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen
Votes: 256
39. Self Made Maids (1950)
TV-PG | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so the stooges tickle him into submission.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Teddy Mangean
Votes: 301
40. Fifi Blows Her Top (1958)
Passed | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Wanda Ottoni
Votes: 269
41. Quiz Whizz (1958)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced by some con men. The stooges go to recover his money. The bad guys tell them they can get rich by posing as children and becoming the wards of a rich man. The boys go along with the plan unawares.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Greta Thyssen
Votes: 232
42. Rusty Romeos (1957)
Passed | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Connie Cezon
Votes: 230
43. A Merry Mix-up (1957)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their reunion causes confusion and troubles for various wives and sweethearts, but it all works out in the end.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Nanette Bordeaux
Votes: 269
44. Commotion on the Ocean (1956)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Gene Roth
Votes: 278
45. Scheming Schemers (1956)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 295
46. Hot Stuff (1956)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are government agents entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 322
47. Rumpus in the Harem (1956)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 295
48. Flagpole Jitters (1956)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is in a wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, David Bond
Votes: 287
49. The Outlaws Is Coming (1964)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Western
Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe work for an editor at a Boston wildlife conservation magazine. They make such a mess of the pressroom that their publisher gets rid of them by sending them out ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, Adam West
Votes: 722
50. Hot Ice (1955)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 289
51. Wham-Bam-Slam! (1955)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home- made remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Matt McHugh
Votes: 275
52. The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Family
The Three Stooges play servants to an ancestor of Phileas Fogg and embark on a trip around the world.
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Jay Sheffield
Votes: 824 | Gross: $2.18M
53. National Recovery Administration (NRA) Promo (1933)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.
Stars: Jimmy Durante, Moe Howard, Frank O'Connor
Votes: 52
54. Stone Age Romeos (1955)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges seek a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film that shows some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The curator is about to pay the reward.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Emil Sitka
Votes: 268
55. Strictly for Laffs (1962 TV Movie)
22 min | Comedy
A round table of comics of the day sitting, chatting, and telling funny stories and jokes.
Director: Bob Searles | Stars: Dave Barry, Mel Blanc, Jack Durant, Paul Gilbert
Votes: 15
56. Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Joe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier
Votes: 544
57. Fling in the Ring (1955)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper," a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike," their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Dick Wessel
Votes: 282
58. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Three goofy druggists travel back to Ancient Greece on a milquetoast inventor's time machine.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Vicki Trickett
Votes: 1,177 | Gross: $4.36M
59. Knutzy Knights (1954)
Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jock Mahoney
Votes: 308
60. Oil's Well That Ends Well (1958)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges need money for their father's operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father's property and all their troubles are solved.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser
Votes: 346
61. Pals and Gals (1954)
17 min | Comedy, Short, Western
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 288
62. Jerks of All Trades (1949 TV Short)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
Television pilot for a Three Stooges situation comedy, where the Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wreck a hapless couple's home.
Director: George Cahan | Stars: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Emil Sitka
Votes: 278
63. Start Cheering (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly, Joan Perry, Charles Starrett
Votes: 267
64. Restless Knights (1935)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy
In Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the Queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the Queen is abducted on the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Geneva Mitchell
Votes: 703
65. Booty and the Beast (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 314
66. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A cruise ship heads south from L.A. with a variety of passengers - a reporter, a P.I., crooks, a general etc.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert
Votes: 750
67. Cuckoo on a Choo Choo (1952)
15 min | Comedy, Short
Larry and Shemp are living in a stolen railroad car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't consent until Shemp marries her sister. Shemp however, is constantly drunk and in ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Patricia Wright
Votes: 381
68. Hollywood Party (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner, Roy Rowland, George Stevens, Sam Wood | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Jack Pearl
Votes: 1,069
69. Danny Thomas Meets the Comics (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Director: Alan Handley | Stars: Danny Thomas, Johnny Carson, The City Slickers, Tim Conway
Votes: 13
70. Woman Haters (1934)
G | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
The 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.
Director: Archie Gottler | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White
Votes: 1,177
71. Fugitive Lovers (1934)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hoping to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 228
72. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,665
73. Hello Pop (1933)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Ted Healy, Henry Armetta, Moe Howard, Larry Fine
Votes: 123
74. Pest Man Wins (1951)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Margie Liszt
Votes: 344
75. Hula-La-La (1951)
Passed | 16 min | Short, Comedy
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh McCollum | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jean Willes
Votes: 323
76. The Tooth Will Out (1951)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Margie Liszt
Votes: 380
77. Merry Mavericks (1951)
16 min | Comedy, Western, Short
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Don C. Harvey
Votes: 362
78. Scrambled Brains (1951)
16 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Babe London
Votes: 401
79. Don't Throw That Knife (1951)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jean Willes
Votes: 343
80. Baby Sitters Jitters (1951)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys'... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Lynn Davies
Votes: 375
81. Three Arabian Nuts (1951)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt
Votes: 399
82. A Snitch in Time (1950)
17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are carpenters who are re-staining some furniture they've delivered to a boarding house. The plot gets complicated when the boys confront some crooks who are hiding out there. ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jean Willes
Votes: 362
83. Slaphappy Sleuths (1950)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 319
84. Studio Stoops (1950)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are movie studio publicity men trying to promote Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but police don't believe it. When she is really kidnapped, the stooges must rescue her. Shemp ends up on an extending telephone.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 348
85. Three Hams on Rye (1950)
Approved | 15 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Nanette Bordeaux
Votes: 347
86. Love at First Bite (1950)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
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... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 314
87. Dopey Dicks (1950)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 454
88. Hugs and Mugs (1950)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Nanette Bordeaux
Votes: 328
89. Punchy Cowpunchers (1950)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short
The Stooges are cavalrymen in the old west, who are hired to track down the Dillons, a notorious outlaw gang with the help of a pretty female barkeeper and her boyfriend, a handsome cowboy,
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jock Mahoney
Votes: 412
90. Dunked in the Deep (1949)
17 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Gene Roth
Votes: 361
91. Vagabond Loafers (1949)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 410
92. Malice in the Palace (1949)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent
Votes: 1,100
93. Fuelin' Around (1949)
16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 384
94. Pardon My Backfire (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges' ten-year engagement to their fiances has reached the end of their future father-in-law's patience. He gives them a week to earn enough money to marry his daughters, or they'll be promised to the three plumbers down the street.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Benny Rubin
Votes: 370
95. Spooks! (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. They disguise themselves as pie salesmen and end up wandering in a mad scientist's mansion trying to find her. They confront a gorilla and various other creepy characters.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Norma Randall
Votes: 505
96. Tricky Dicks (1953)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The 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.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Benny Rubin
Votes: 371
97. Loose Loot (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a theater where they ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 339
98. Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges' father strikes it rich in oil and immediately issues divorce papers to his wife. He plans to marry a gold digging younger woman unless the boys can disrupt the proceedings.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Connie Cezon
Votes: 362
99. Gents in a Jam (1952)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kitty McHugh
Votes: 357
100. He Cooked His Goose (1952)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Larry is seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiance. Moe becomes suspicious so Larry attempts to frame Shemp by getting him a job as a door to door pajama salesman and sending him to Moe's apartment.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Mary Ainslee
Votes: 346
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