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Hold That Ghost (1941)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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76
65
7.4
/3864/
71
/90/
72
/106/
4.0
/7598/
85
/70/

Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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70
61
7.0
/5003/
70
/125/
67
/73/
3.4
/2613/
76
/98/

Buck Privates (1941)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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68
59
7.1
/8163/
66
/168/
65
/125/
3.5
/6516/

The Bank Dick (1940)
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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54
48
5.9
/3833/
57
/123/
57
/83/
2.8
/5152/
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/9/
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/44/
56
/5/

The Invisible Woman (1940)
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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6.0
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56
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60
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38
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cc age 7+

Africa Screams (1949)
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
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45
6.7
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66
/75/
64
/33/
3.3
/1177/
58
/448/

In the Navy (1941)
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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60
33
6.1
/1821/
60
/66/
60
/50/
3.1
/859/

Arabian Nights (1942)
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Public Domain Movies
66
32
7.3
/1185/
66
/29/
56
/24/
3.4
/671/
67
/89/

Malice in the Palace (1949)
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
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27
7.2
/1324/
59
/24/
60
/27/
3.5
/816/

Brideless Groom (1947)
Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious results.
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64
27
6.9
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68
/29/
61
/17/
3.2
/322/
60
/93/

Murder Over New York (1940)
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Public Domain Movies
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20
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67
/21/
60
/19/
3.5
/593/

Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947)
The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
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19
6.4
/1696/
74
/23/
62
/14/
3.2
/561/
45
/9/

Pittsburgh (1942)
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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50
18
5.2
/669/
60
/20/
51
/19/
2.7
/724/
43
/7/
43
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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15
6.5
/1134/
64
/29/
64
/14/
3.2
/469/
39
/4/

It Ain't Hay (1943)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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8.0
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70
/11/
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/11/
3.6
/337/

Who Done It? (1949)
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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14
7.1
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3.3
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Spooks! (1953)
The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.
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6.3
/19/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Columbia Laff Hour (1956)
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
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6.8
/77/

Where the Pest Begins (1945)
Jonathan Bass (Tom Kennedy), an inventor working for the government, makes the mistake of his life. He moves next door to Shemp. Lazy, obtuse and obnoxious, Shemp plays the good neighbor by wrecking the Bass' garage, car and china... and somehow makes it look to Bass' wife (Christine McIntyre) that Jonathan is clumsily at fault. Bass' latest project is a new bomb for the Army, and it's only a matter of time before helpful Shemp turns up in the laboratory basement offering his assistance.
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5.6
/28/
60
/1/

Why Pay Rent? (1935)
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
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5.4
/28/
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/1/
35
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk (1934)
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.
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6.4
/35/

Too Many Blondes (1941)
The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising situation with brassy blonde showgirl Hortense (Iris Adrian), Virginia is encouraged to inaugurate divorce proceedings by her oily ex-beau Ted (Jerome Cowan). It all winds up in Mexico, with Dick ardently chasing Virginia until she catches him.
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7.6
/56/

Classic Comedy Teams (1986)
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
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6.9
/37/
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/3/

Three Stooges Comedy Collection (2024)
A collection of 4 hilarious Three Stooges short films. Disorder in the court (1936) Brideless Groom (1947) Sing A Song Of Six Pants (1947) Malice in the Palace (1949)
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6.0
/16/
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Here's Howe (1936)
Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The farmer sends the local sheriff to collect from Knobby.
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6.2
/59/
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/1/
80
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My Mummy's Arms (1934)
Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.
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6.5
/63/

Three of a Kind (1944)
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.
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Three Stooges: Greatest Routines (1964)
Join Moe, Larry and Curly Joe for 35 hilarious misadventures! Hosted by Mike Nelson of RiffTrax.
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6.0
/15/
40
/1/

Kick Me Again (1937)
Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.
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4.6
/28/

Meet the Chump (1941)
A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
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7.4
/42/
20
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The Three Stooges Greatest Hits! (1997)
A tribute to the Three Stooges comedy team, featuring old clips and home movies mixed with music performances of Stooge-themed songs.
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5.4
/33/

Absorbing Junior (1936)
Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.
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5.3
/19/

Trouble Chasers (1945)
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
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6.6
/48/
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Mississippi Gambler (1942)
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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7.3
/49/
50
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The Lost Stooges (1990)
A documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin featuring rare clips of the Three Stooges
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7.1
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/12/
63
/6/

Fiddlers Three (1948)
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
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62
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6.9
/341/
61
/6/
58
/6/

Shot in the Frontier (1954)
Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the stooges are courting.
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62
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7.1
/345/
55
/6/
60
/5/

Husbands Beware (1956)
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters.
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58
?
6.7
/314/
58
/6/
50
/5/

Flagpole Jitters (1956)
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
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6.4
/13/
60
/1/

One Exciting Week (1946)
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
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68
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7.1
/419/
62
/9/
76
/5/
3.2
/266/

Income Tax Sappy (1954)
Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
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64
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6.7
/337/
58
/5/
62
/5/

Booty and the Beast (1953)
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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65
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7.3
/366/
56
/6/
66
/5/

Loose Loot (1953)
The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance.
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67
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7.0
/378/
63
/6/
62
/5/

Rip, Sew and Stitch (1953)
The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.
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70
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7.5
/407/
57
/7/
74
/5/

Goof on the Roof (1953)
The Stooges are entrusted with taking care of their friend's house while he goes off to get married.
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6.4
/32/

Dangerous Business (1946)
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
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7.0
/66/
50
/1/

Bride and Gloom (1947)
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
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68
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7.3
/383/
74
/5/
58
/5/

Pardon My Clutch (1948)
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.


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