Phony Cronies

Original title: Phoney Cronies

19421942
ApprovedApproved
18m

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5.4/10

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El Brendel, Monte Collins, and Tom Kennedy in Phoney Cronies (1942)

Short

Adventure

Comedy

Three incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to... Read allThree incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps.Three incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps.

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Director
- Harry Edwards
Writer
- Harry Edwards(story and screenplay)
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slapstick comedy

crate

crook

truck

gang

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[first lines]
Tom: You've been our bookkeeper for give years and this is the first time our books have been uneven!
Petty Larsen, the Bookkeeper: Boss, a lot of people are having trouble right now balancing their books.
Tom: Petty, you said a mouthful.
Oley: Petty? Say, what is your last name?
Petty Larsen, the Bookkeeper: Larsen.
Oley: Larsen. Petty Larsen.
[chuckles]
Oley: That's a nice name.
[does a double take]
Oley: Hey, wait a minute!
Tom: Petty Larsen. Maybe that counts for the eight dollars and twenty cents that's missing.

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Very funny; well worth a look

This obscure but lively slapstick comedy was probably intended by Columbia for The Three Stooges, but is quite funny as it is. Dudley Dickerson (who appeared in more Stooges shorts than any other black actor) easily steals the show; the sequence where he attempts to catch a mouse in the kitchen is priceless.

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