Features:
- Black & White
- Closed-captioned
Description:
"Dizzy Doctors" (1937, short number 21 in the Columbia series) finds the boys married to working wives who bully them into getting jobs. Becoming salesmen for "Brighto," they think it is both a spot remover and car polisher; but when the product is put to those uses, the disastrous results set a policeman and a car owner (Vernon Dent) against them. Learning that Brighto is really a cure-all, they naturally try to sell it in a hospital (the very one they disrupted in "Men in Black"), meet the head of the place--Dent himself--and are chased into the distance to end a fast-paced short. "Goofs and Saddles" (1937, number 25) begins with the boys sporting old-fashioned mustaches that actually make them look good! As cavalry scouts named Buffalow Billious, Wild Bill Hicup, and Just Plain Bill (their own spelling), they are sent to round up some rustlers. Now clean-shaven, they try cheating at poker, retreat when they see what happens to card sharks, and defeat the baddies by shooting bullets through a meat grinder. Classic bits throughout. "Three Little Sew and Sews" (1938, number 36) has several unusual aspects. Although it takes place in "Telvana," the costumes are strictly U.S. Navy issue. For once in the 97 episodes in which Curly was a Stooge, he gets the upper hand as he dons an admiral's costume sent down to be pressed and lands Moe and Larry in the brig. After getting $5 from each to release them, he announces they will never pass through a second door. Trivia buffs should note that is one of the very few films in the series in which the boys end up dead! --Frank Behrens
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