The Three Stooges Collection 1934-1945 - 8-DVD Box Set ( Woman Haters / Punch Drunks / Men in Black / Three Little Pigskins / Horses' Collars / Restless Knights / Pop Goes the Easel / Uncivil Warriors / Pardon My Scotch / Hoi Polloi / Three Little Beers / Ants in the Pantry / Movie Maniacs / Half Shot Shooters )

The Three Stooges Collection 1934-1945 - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Woman Haters / Punch Drunks / Men in Black / Three Little Pigskins / Horses' Collars / Restless Knights / Pop Goes the Easel / Uncivil Warriors / Pardon My Scotch / Hoi Polloi / Three Little Beers / Ants in the Pantry / Movie Maniacs / Half Shot Shooters
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
1510 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1934-1945 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Archie Gottler
Lou Breslow
Ray McCarey
Clyde Bruckman
Charles Lamont
Del Lord
Jack White
Charley Chase
Jules White
Harry Edwards
Edward Bernds

Written By:
Jerome S. Gottler

Jack Cluett
Felix Adler
Andrew Bennison
Clyde Bruckman
Al Giebler
Jack White
John Grey
Searle Kramer
Ewart Adamson
Albert Ray
Elwood Ullman
Charley Chase
Harry Edwards
Lloyd French
Monte Collins
Del Lord
Edward Bernds

Actors:
Moe Howard ..... Tom
Larry Fine ..... Jim
Curly Howard ..... Jack
Marjorie White ..... Mary
Walter Brennan ..... Train Conductor
Monte Collins ..... Mr. Zero
June Gittelson ..... Mary's Sister
Leslie Goodwins ..... Bald Man in Bar
Moe Howard ..... Moe
Moe Howard ..... Dr. Moe Howard
Moe Howard ..... Count of Fife
Moe Howard ..... Operator 14 / Captain Dodge
Curly Howard ..... Curly
Curly Howard ..... Curly / Pop Howard
Curly Howard ..... Buffalo Bilious
Curly Howard ..... Curly Howard
Curly Howard ..... Dr. Curly
Curly Howard ..... Curly Gallstone
Curly Howard ..... Curly Sinker
Curly Howard ..... Cluck
Curly Howard ..... Curleycue
Curly Howard ..... Curly Wrong
Curly Howard ..... Curly Q. Link (Q for cuff)
Larry Fine ..... Larry

Synopsis:

Woman Haters: The Stooges join a Woman Haters club but have a hard time sticking to their vows when Larry is the first one to fall prey to the charms of a cute blonde gal. Punch Drunks: Curly is a waiter at a diner where Larry has a job playing music. Punch Drunks: Curly is a waiter at a diner where Larry has a job playing music. Moe is a fight manager enjoying a lunch break with his boys. Three Little Pigskins: The Stooges are beggars in suits. Horses' Collars: The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Restless Knights: In Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. Pop Goes the Easel: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. Pardon My Scotch: The stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. Hoi Polloi: A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. Three Little Beers: The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. Ants in the Pantry: The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. Movie Maniacs: The Stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business ('There must be a couple a hundred guys in Hollywood who don't know anything about making movies, three more ain't gonna make any difference'.) Half Shot Shooters: The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. A Pain in the Pullman: The Stooges are small-time actors traveling by train to an engagement. False Alarms: The stooges are firemen who are constantly getting in trouble, they've been warned that one more incident will cost them their jobs. Curly sneaks out anyway to visit his girlfriend. Whoops, I'm an Indian!: In the Old West, the Stooges are crooked gamblers gypping the resident of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. Slippery Silks: The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. Grips, Grunts and Groans: The stooges become trainers of 'Bustoff', a champion wrestler. Dizzy Doctors: The stooges get a job selling 'Brighto', what they think is cleaning fluid. 3 Dumb Clucks: The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Back to the Woods: Set in colonial times, the Stooges, convicted as criminals, are banished from England to the American colonies. Cash and Carry: The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. Playing the Ponies: The stooges are cheated into trading their restaurant for Thunderbolt, a washed up race horse, and enter the horse racing industry. The Sitter Downers: The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. Termites of 1938: The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. Tassels in the Air: The stooges are janitors in an office building. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb: Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Violent Is the Word for Curly: 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. Three Missing Links: The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. Mutts to You: The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. Flat Foot Stooges: The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts. The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come. We Want Our Mummy: The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rutentuten for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some criminals pursuing the same objective. These criminals abducted a professor from the museum. They are yearning for the jewels buried inside the mummy's tomb. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the criminals. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rutentuten who turns out to have been a midget rather than a tall pharaoh. A Ducking They Did Go: The stooges are tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club. To the amazement of the con men, they sell all the memberships to the police department. When the bad guys skip town, the stooges are stuck at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops and plenty of trouble ahead. Moe and Larry stall the cops with duck decoys while Curly searches for some real ducks. The boys think their troubles are solved when Curly returns with a whole flock, but it turns out the ducks belong to local farmer and the boys leave in a hail of buckshot. Yes, We Have No Bonanza: Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office. Saved by the Belle: 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 telegram instructing them to 'get rid of present wardrobe' and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans. Calling All Curs: The stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work, they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight and they find Garcon, only to discover that 'he' has had a litter of puppies. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise: The stooges are tramps looking for handouts. Although the boys are down and out, Curly seems to get everything he wishes for. After some trouble with a farmer, the boys come across an abandoned car, one of Curly's wishes. The car actually belongs to some con men who have just gypped the widow Jenkins out of her land. The boys winds up at the Mrs. Jenkins' house just in time for a free meal. To repay Mrs. Jenkins the boys try to fix her well and instead unleash an oil geyser. Learning that Mrs. Jenkins has been swindled, the boys go to retrieve the deed before it can be recorded. They find the bad guys and after a wild fight recover the deed. The boys return the deed to Mrs. Jenkins and marry her daughters; April, May and June. Three Sappy People: The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely. You Nazty Spy!: In this satire of the Nazis the stooges are paperhangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the king, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions. Rockin' Thru the Rockies: The Stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west. A Plumbing We Will Go: To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. One memorable scene has the lady of the house tuning into a television broadcast from Niagara Falls as a torrent of water pours from the set. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape through a magicians trap door. Nutty But Nice: The stooges are singing waiters who are enlisted by a doctor to try and cheer up a little girl. It seems that the girl's father is a banker who was kidnapped with $300,000 worth of bonds. Failing to cheer up the girl, the stooges go out looking for the father and by a series of coincidences wind up in the bad guys hideout. The villains return and after a wild fight the boys free the missing man. How High Is Up?: The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss. From Nurse to Worse: The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement. No Census, No Feeling: The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit. Cookoo Cavaliers: The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girls' hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run. Boobs in Arms: The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell. So Long Mr. Chumps: The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancée is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer. Dutiful But Dumb: The stooges are photographers for Whack magazine ('If it's a good picture it's out of Whack') who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. In Vulgaria the penalty for taking pictures in is death, and the boys soon wind up in front of a firing squad. Curly's last request is a giant cigar and by the time he's done smoking it all the soldiers are asleep and the stooges make their escape. All the World's a Stooge: The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax. I'll Never Heil Again: A follow up to 'You Nazty Spy', the stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the stooges wind up as trophies on the wall. An Ache in Every Stake: The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry. In the Sweet Pie and Pie: The stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the stooges and give their lawyer the boot. Some More of Samoa: The stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The stooges escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize. Loco Boy Makes Good: The stooges decide to get some easy money by having Curly slip on a bar of soap in a hotel lobby so they can sue the owner. Curly slips as planned but the hotel turns out to be run by an old lady who is about to lose her lease to the evil landlord. The stooges decide to help her fix up the place and start by beating up the landlord and stealing his watch. After their usual antics in renovating the place, the hotel is ready for the grand re-opening. The stooges put on a big show with a famous critic in attendance. Their corny act goes over poorly until Curly accidentally puts on a magicians coat and becomes a sensation and the place is a success. Cactus Makes Perfect: The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks. What's the Matador?: The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero. Matri-Phony: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass off Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they are caught by the palace guards as they try to escape. Three Smart Saps: The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all ends well. Even as IOU: A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt! Sock-a-Bye Baby: The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes. They Stooge to Conga: The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control. Dizzy Detectives: The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up. Spook Louder: The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist goes to Washington to demonstrate his death-ray machine to the government, the boys are left to guard his house and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower. Back from the Front: Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by various means, such as Moe disguising himself as Hitler, and Curly and Larry as Goering and Goebbels, manage to capture the enemy ship. Three Little Twirps: The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. Higher Than a Kite: The stooges are auto mechanics working for the Royal Air Force in England. After wrecking an officer's car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. I Can Hardly Wait: The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Dizzy Pilots: The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. Phony Express: Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. A Gem of a Jam: The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Crash Goes the Hash: The stooges are hired as reporters and their first assignment is to get a picture of a visiting prince who is planning to marry a local socialite. Busy Buddies: The stooges run a small restaurant, and must come up with some quick money to pay off a pie dealer whose wares they ruined. The Yoke's on Me: Rejected by the armed services, the stooges decide to 'do their bit' by becoming farmers. Idle Roomers: The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. Gents Without Cents: The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. No Dough Boys: The stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. Three Pests in a Mess: The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. Booby Dupes: The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. Idiots Deluxe: Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. If a Body Meets a Body: Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. Micro-Phonies: The stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of 'Voices of Spring' under an assumed name.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 22 July, 2022.