The Three Stooges: Worst to Best
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- StarsFrank SinatraLouis ArmstrongYvonne De CarloIt'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 with running the party, but the three turn out to be complete incompetents who cause chaos and havoc.
- StarsMoe HowardMoe tries his hand at fishing, In true "pre-stooge" fashion, problems ensue.
- DirectorEddie DavisStarsEddie CantorJulie BennettIda Tobias CantorThree dimwitted crooks break into a bank but end up, by mistake, in the U.S. Mint.
- DirectorAl AdamsonStarsYvonne De CarloRobert LivingstonDon 'Red' BarryJunket stewardesses land on a gambling ranch whose owner (Bob Livingston) is plagued by hooded riders.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineJoe BesserA 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.
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsMorey AmsterdamRose MarieRichard DeaconA man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineJoe BesserJoe 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 complications ensue when Birdie gives birth to a colt. Joe wakes up to suffer some abuse from the real Birdie (Moe in drag), when he tells her he dreamed she was a horse.
- DirectorLouis LewynStarsTed HealyBonnie BonnellMoe HowardJimmy 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.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsGeorge O'BrienMoe HowardShemp HowardOn 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 run a traveling variety store. O'Brien sells mine owner John Sawyer and his foreman Sandy Evans on allowing him to insure and guard their shipments since they have no help from the bumbling sheriff. He hires to Stooges, Laura Mason and Doc Mason, Laura's ex-physician-turned-drunk grandfather. O'Brien's first move is to trap the bandits headed by saloon owner Taggart and his henchman Clete by using the Stooges to inform Taggart that O'Brien will escort the gold shipment, but George plans on having the Stooges take the actual shipment in another wagon. His plans backfire when Doc Mason, drunk in Taggart's saloon, accidentally informs Taggart of the real plans.
- DirectorRalph LevyStarsEd WynnThe Three StoogesHelen ForrestEd approaches three CBS network executives (played by the Three Stooges) seeking help to improve his program.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsJack PearlJimmy DuranteZasu PittsThe 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. While giving a speech at a college, the "Baron" falls for a pretty girl, gets tangled up with a trio of nutty janitors and faces being exposed as a phony.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsGale StormPhil ReganMoe HowardA struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. Featuring The Three Stooges as waiters.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsClaire TrevorJess BarkerEdgar BuchananMilitary 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 info against him, spreading lies about his wartime activities.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLarry FineMoe HowardCurly HowardTed 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. These include a man with a machine gun, a woman who empties wastebaskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments.
- DirectorWillard MackJules WhiteStarsAlice BradyFrank MorganJackie CooperA vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.
- DirectorEddie SaetaStarsJohn ConsidineBarry CoeCheryl MillerAn evil immortal magician on a killing spree targets one specific couple in an attempt to prolong his life through soul transference.
- DirectorNorman MaurerStarsJoe DeRitaLarry FineMoe HowardAfter 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 the stooges, it is truly a "kook's tour". This especially proves to be the case, for Larry, who despite his best efforts, simply cannot seem to catch a fish. Larry is driven to the height of frustration as he is continually outfished by Moe, Joe, Moose, and even his own hat!
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardCurly HowardTed 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.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsFrank SinatraDean MartinAnita EkbergZack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardJoe DeRitaThe Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle.
- DirectorVernon KeaysStarsThe Three StoogesMoe HowardLarry FineWhile 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 looking for backers. At the Wagon Wheel Cafe, he encounters a couple of vagrants, Curly and Larry, who are just a step or two ahead of Sheriff Zeke, who have won some money at the roulette wheel and they immediately become prime prospects for backing Shorty's nebulous prospecting scheme. Meanwhile, June McGuire and Betty Vale, whose singing act has failed at the café, are packing for New York. Shorty, who has fallen for Betty, persuades the girls to go to the ranch. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Rusty has returned with intentions of selling the ranch. He tells Shorty, Curly and Larry to hit the trail, and instructs his cowhands, the Hoosier Hotshots, to round up the cattle for the buyer's inspection the next morning. Shorty, Curly and Larry inadvertently (of course) make a hole in the fence and the cattle get out. The only-slightly smarter Hotshots suspect rustlers and when they come upon Sam Clemens, the prospective buyer, they hand him over to the sheriff as a rustler. They hear that Tom Trove, a Broadway producer, is in town and get him to the ranch where they plan to audition their talents. Rusty gets the more-than-miffed Clemens out of jail and they return to the ranch to find a show in progress with Trove as a disgruntled audience. Things aren't going good for anybody at the old ranch house, until Curly spills some rocks from his pocket that turn out to be that most valuable and rare mineral "Vanadanite," and the ranch is loaded with it. Clemens makes Rusty his partner in a mining venture, and the Hoosier Hotshots, with the unintentional aid (of course) of Shorty, Curly and Larry, make a hit with Trove, who signs them for his Diamond Circle in New York, and includes June and Betty.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardTed HealyTed Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsTed HealyMoe HowardLarry FineA father tells bedtime stories to his three sons.
- DirectorWalter LangFrank TashlinStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCarol HeissAn ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsTed HealyCharles WinningerFrances McCoyMr. 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 have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out, and things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.