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Production InformationTitle: Hokus PokusStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 115Release Date: May 5, 1949Running Time: 16:08 “The great hypnotist Svengarlic – He’ll steal your breath away.” Short Take In Hokus Pokus, The Three Stooges are three paperhangers who also look after invalid Mary (Mary Ainslee), who always uses a wheelchair. The seemingly helpless blonde, however, is trying to swindle her insurance company out…

Production InformationStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 111Release Date: November 4, 1948Running Time: 15.49 “I’m Honest Moe, that’s Honest Shemp and that’s……well that’s Larry.”(Moe) Short Take The Stooges are “used chariot” salesmen in ancient Egypt, and try to gyp a customer who turns out to be the captain of the Pharaoh’s guard. He drags them to the palace to…

Production InformationTitle: Heavenly DazeStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 109Release Date: September 2, 1948Running Time: 16:47 “Cheerio, Pi-Pip, and all that sort of rot, old thing, old stuff, old fishmonger, old skunk bait!” Short Take Shemp has died and is in Heaven, talking with his Uncle Mortimer (Moe, dressed to resemble Moses). Mortimer is on the phone checking to see if Shemp will…

Production InformationTitle: Fiddlers ThreeStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 107Release Date: May 6, 1948Running Time: 17:06 “Blacksmith where art thou?” Short Take Fiddlers Three is a Stooge fairy-tale with King Cole as its monarch. ‘Will Edge’ (i.e. village) as its blacksmith, and several extraordinary videos like Jack Be Nimble, Little Miss Muffet, and Simple Simond. In an appropriately harmonious conclusion, the Stooges and…

Production InformationTitle: Squareheads of The Round TableStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 106Release Date: March 4, 1948Running Time: 18:06 “We are three restless knights.” “Our days ain’t too hot either.”(Moe & Shemp) Short Take The Stooges are troubadours in medieval times. The villainous Black Prince has designs on marriage to Elaine, the princess. She, however, is in love with Cedric, the blacksmith. The Stooges try…

Production InformationTitle: Shivering SherlocksStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 104Release Date: January 18, 1948Running Time: 17:17 “They’re gonna go to work and like it. And if it’s absolutely necessary, I’ll go to work too.”(Moe) Short Take Vagrants Moe, Larry & Shemp are suspected in an armored car robbery. Gladys Harmon vouches for the Stooges’ claim that they work at her Elite Cafe diner, and…

Production InformationTitle: Sing a Song of Six PantsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 102Release Date: October 30, 1947Running Time: 16:54 “Do you dye?” “No, that’s his natural expression.” Short Take The Stooges run a tailor shop that is about to be repossessed by the Skin and Flint Finance Corporation. When The Boys hear about a big reward for fugitive bank robber Terry “Slippery…

Production InformationTitle: Half-Wits HolidayStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 97Release Date: January 9, 1947Running Time: 17:29 “Oh, see the deer. Has the deer a little doe?” “Yeah, two bucks!”(Curly & Larry) Short Take Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen, played, of course, by…

Production InformationStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 76Release Date: December 5, 1946Running Time: 17:51 “Eenie, Meenie, Minee, Moe. See, you can’t go wrong with Moe! Heh, heh.” “Thanks (slap). Get Busy!”(Curly and Moe) Short Take  Curly, Moe, and Larry, NYC garbage barge sailors, wash ashore on an island stuck in the 17th century, and ruled by a tyrannical Governor.…

Production InformationTitle: A Bird In The HeadStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 53Release Date: February 28, 1946Running Time: 16:54 “It’s silly to be scared.” “Yeah.” “Boy! Am I silly!”(Curly and Moe) Short Take The Stooges are mediocre paperhangers. Their client Mr. Beedle (Robert Williams) advises the boys to do a good job, but the end result looks like it was quickly cluttered with…