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Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Violent Is the Word for Curly
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine
The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.
Tassels in the Air (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tassels in the Air
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine
The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.
Mutts to You (1938) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mutts to You
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
Termites of 1938 (1938) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Termites of 1938
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard
The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
Playing the Ponies (1937) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Playing the Ponies
director: Charles Lamont actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
Ants in the Pantry (1936) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Ants in the Pantry
director: Jack White actor: Moe 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. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.