WE MUST DO OUR BEST

Per Moe Howard's recollections, this Vitagraph short is one of his childhood film appearances.

Released on:	Monday, November 30, 1908
Duration:	10 min.
Featuring:	Moe Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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FISH HOOKEY

Reportedly, a lost Vitagraph short that featured a young Moe Howard.

Released on:	Saturday, January 1, 1910
Duration:	10 min.
Featuring:	Moe Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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WISE GUYS PREFER BRUNETTES

A college dean's antiquated attitude is disrupted by a youth-concoction that turns him into a skirt chasing ladies man.

Released on:	Sunday, October 3, 1926
Duration:	18 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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FOX MOVIETONE NEWS

Ted Healy and other celebrities appear in a Movietone newsreel promoting NYC's re-election campaign for Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Released on:	Saturday, September 21, 1929
Duration:	0 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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HEARST METROTONE NEWS Vol. 3 # 220

Reporting from Chicago, Ted Healy participates in donating used radios to the city's poor children.

Released on:	Saturday, December 5, 1931
Duration:	11 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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STOP, SADIE, STOP

Ted Healy and Cliff Edwards team for a parody of Edwards' hit song Singin' in the Rain.

Released on:	Friday, July 7, 1933
Duration:	12 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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GIVE A MAN A JOB

Jimmy Durante promotes Pres. Roosevelt's NRA in this musical PSA urging employers to hire.

Released on:	Saturday, September 9, 1933
Duration:	2.85 min.
Featuring:	Moe Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (6 votes)

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BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD

The story of a performing family, from the days of vaudeville, to Broadway, and then to Hollywood.

Released on:	Friday, September 15, 1933
Duration:	85 min.
Featuring:	Moe Howard and Curly Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (7 votes)

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SALT WATER DAFFY

Two pickpockets involuntarily enlist in the Navy and proceed to drive their CPO crazy.

Released on:	Saturday, September 16, 1933
Duration:	21.25 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.58 / 10   (12 votes)

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STAGE MOTHER

A former vaudevillian actress is determined to achieve fame by turning her daughter into a Broadway star.

Released on:	Friday, September 29, 1933
Duration:	84.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy and Larry Fine (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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CLOSE RELATIONS

Two cousins vie for the favor of their eccentric rich uncle and his inheritance.

Released on:	Saturday, September 30, 1933
Duration:	21.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.40 / 10   (5 votes)

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PAUL REVERE, JR.

A nightclub reveler imagines himself as Paul Revere at a Boston Tea Party with dancing girls that interrupts his historic midnight ride.

Released on:	Saturday, October 7, 1933
Duration:	21.25 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.75 / 10   (4 votes)

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BOMBSHELL

A movie star's attempt to settle down and start a family are complicated by a crafty publicity agent and her freeloading father and brother.

Released on:	Friday, October 13, 1933
Duration:	95.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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GOBS OF FUN

Two sailors get mixed up with a golddigger, and hit a nightclub with an officer's uniform "borrowed" from their Captain.

Released on:	Saturday, October 21, 1933
Duration:	21.4 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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IN THE DOUGH

The pastries fly in a neighborhood bakery when protection racketeers show up.

Released on:	Saturday, November 25, 1933
Duration:	21.75 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.25 / 10   (8 votes)

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HERE COMES FLOSSIE!

Confusion reigns on the farm when a mail-order bride and a new heifer arrive, and they're both named Flossie.

Released on:	Saturday, December 9, 1933
Duration:	18.4 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.22 / 10   (9 votes)

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HOWD' YA LIKE THAT?

Two sailors hit the town for a good time and become mixed up with a showgirl and her jealous boyfriend.

Released on:	Saturday, January 13, 1934
Duration:	17.7 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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HENRY THE ACHE

Henry VIII's new wife Queen Kitty is not happy with the king and turns to "trusted" adviser Sir Thomas Culpeper for love.

Released on:	Friday, January 26, 1934
Duration:	17.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.20 / 10   (10 votes)

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ROAST-BEEF AND MOVIES

Three idiots attempt to sell their film to studio executives.

Released on:	Saturday, February 10, 1934
Duration:	16.25 min.
Featuring:	Curly Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	2.50 / 10   (14 votes)

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WRONG, WRONG TRAIL, THE

A detective school graduate is sent to a sanitarium to investigate a murder.

Released on:	Saturday, February 10, 1934
Duration:	10.25 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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MUSHROOMS

An expert on mushrooms hosts a dinner party crashed by his loutish friends. Adding to the confusion are a dish of possible toadstools.

Released on:	Wednesday, February 14, 1934
Duration:	20.4 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (6 votes)

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KNIFE OF THE PARTY, THE

A broke vaudeville troupe goes to work at a local hotel to pay off their room & board.

Released on:	Friday, February 16, 1934
Duration:	20 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (10 votes)

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EVERYBODY LIKES MUSIC

Bullvania's president loses important diplomatic papers, and war will be declared unless detective Shemp and his partner can find them.

Released on:	Friday, March 9, 1934
Duration:	19.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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JAIL BIRDS OF PARADISE

The warden's daughter turns a prison into a luxury hotel for the inmates, complete with dinner, dancing and entertainment, while the guards do all the work.

Released on:	Saturday, March 10, 1934
Duration:	18 min.
Featuring:	Moe Howard and Curly Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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PUGS AND KISSES

To teach their losing fighter a lesson about women and drink, a manager and trainer set him up with a badger game con.

Released on:	Saturday, March 10, 1934
Duration:	21.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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LAZY RIVER

Paroled convicts arrive in the Louisiana bayou and find a poor community besieged by Chinese racketeers running an illegal immigrant operation.

Released on:	Friday, March 16, 1934
Duration:	75.4 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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VERY CLOSE VEINS

A man takes a trip to Alaska to cure his leg's enlarged vein, but the villagers think he's there to prospect a vein of gold.

Released on:	Saturday, April 14, 1934
Duration:	17.75 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.50 / 10   (4 votes)

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PURE FEUD

Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy take a backwoods vacation and wind up in the middle of a hillbilly feud.

Released on:	Saturday, April 21, 1934
Duration:	9.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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CORN ON THE COP

Two hobos run afoul of the law with their phony foot salve scam, and a case of mistaken identity sets them up as house guests of the cop.

Released on:	Saturday, April 28, 1934
Duration:	19.7 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.23 / 10   (13 votes)

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I SCREAM

An insurance company mistakenly hires an ice cream man to end the local gang war that is bankrupting their business.

Released on:	Saturday, May 19, 1934
Duration:	19.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.67 / 10   (6 votes)

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RAMBLING 'ROUND RADIO ROW # 7 (Series 2 # 1)

A radio station mailman makes his delivery rounds and mingles with the performers.

Released on:	Saturday, May 19, 1934
Duration:	11 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.25 / 10   (4 votes)

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OPERATOR 13

A stage actress joins the Union Secret Service during the Civil War and falls in love with the Confederate officer assigned to stop her.

Released on:	Friday, June 15, 1934
Duration:	84.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy and Curly Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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ART TROUBLE

Two ship painters are hired by society men to pose as them as art students in Paris.

Released on:	Saturday, June 23, 1934
Duration:	21 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.75 / 10   (4 votes)

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PARIS INTERLUDE

Rival reporters in Paris to cover Lindbergh's 1927 flight fall in love with the same woman.

Released on:	Friday, July 27, 1934
Duration:	71.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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MY MUMMY'S ARMS

Two bunglers masquerade as mummies to impress an archaeologist's daughter, while a gang of Arabs look for grave robbers.

Released on:	Saturday, July 28, 1934
Duration:	19.4 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (5 votes)

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DAREDEVIL O'DARE

A simpleton farmboy takes a mail order course in acrobatics and runs away to join the circus.

Released on:	Saturday, August 11, 1934
Duration:	17.8 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.75 / 10   (8 votes)

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DEATH ON THE DIAMOND

The World Series bound St. Louis Cardinals find themselves the target of a serial killer after a star pitcher is hired to lead the team.

Released on:	Friday, September 14, 1934
Duration:	70.75 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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SMOKED HAMS

Ham vaudeville performers Shemp & Daphne pester a theatrical producer to use their Civil War sketch in his latest show.

Released on:	Saturday, October 20, 1934
Duration:	18.3 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.88 / 10   (8 votes)

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SO YOU WON'T T-T-T-TALK

A hen-pecked husband takes his shrew wife, her brat little brother, and the boorish downstairs neighbors on a camping trip.

Released on:	Saturday, November 3, 1934
Duration:	21.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.14 / 10   (7 votes)

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DIZZY & DAFFY

Two rookie pitchers, Dizzy & Daffy Dean, are recruited for the St. Louis Cardinals and take their pitching coach "Lefty" Howard along to the World Series.

Released on:	Saturday, December 15, 1934
Duration:	22.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.71 / 10   (7 votes)

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BAND PLAYS ON, THE

The friendship of four famous college football players is tested when one is tempted to drop out and go pro.

Released on:	Friday, December 21, 1934
Duration:	88.67 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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FORSAKING ALL OTHERS

After a several year absence, a man returns to find the woman he loves planning to marry another man.

Released on:	Sunday, December 23, 1934
Duration:	84 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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PEACH OF A PAIR, A

An unemployed vaudeville duo hires on as cook and butler for a fancy dinner party.

Released on:	Saturday, December 29, 1934
Duration:	20.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.55 / 10   (11 votes)

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WINNING TICKET, THE

After winning the Irish Sweepstakes, a man's family goes on a spending spree before they can redeem the ticket, which goes missing.

Released on:	Friday, February 8, 1935
Duration:	68.3 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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HIS FIRST FLAME

An inept fireman marries a co-worker's former flame. His fire-extinguishing powder invention is sabotaged by the jilted boyfriend.

Released on:	Saturday, March 9, 1935
Duration:	19.75 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.29 / 10   (14 votes)

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CASINO MURDER CASE, THE

Philo Vance investigates murder and attempted murder of members of the Llewellyn family.

Released on:	Wednesday, March 13, 1935
Duration:	82.4 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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RECKLESS

An actress marries into society, but tragedy leads to scandal and she becomes a single mother defending her personal and professional reputation.

Released on:	Friday, April 19, 1935
Duration:	97.2 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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CONVENTION GIRL

An Atlantic City call girl, her boyfriend and an admirer become involved in a blackmail scheme of her nephew and a local gangster.

Released on:	Wednesday, May 1, 1935
Duration:	66 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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WHY PAY RENT?

When a man's freeloading brother-in-law turns up with a new family, the apartment is too small so they purchase a build-it-yourself home.

Released on:	Saturday, May 4, 1935
Duration:	21.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.75 / 10   (8 votes)

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MURDER IN THE FLEET

The crew of a U.S. battleship is threatened by a saboteur during installation of a revolutionary gunnery system.

Released on:	Friday, May 24, 1935
Duration:	69.4 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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SERVES YOU RIGHT

A process server masquerades in drag to serve a summons on local hood Musclebound Pete.

Released on:	Saturday, June 15, 1935
Duration:	21.8 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.29 / 10   (7 votes)

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MAD LOVE

A surgeon's love for an actress turns to horror when he amputates and replaces her husband's hands for those of a knife murderer.

Released on:	Friday, July 12, 1935
Duration:	67.7 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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WOMAN WANTED

An innocent woman found guilty of murder and a lawyer go on the run from police and the gangsters who framed her.

Released on:	Monday, August 12, 1935
Duration:	66.8 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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ON THE WAGON

After an all-night binge, two husbands try to sneak into their house, avoiding their wives and brutish mother-in-law.

Released on:	Saturday, August 24, 1935
Duration:	21.8 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.67 / 10   (6 votes)

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HERE COMES THE BAND

Two cab driving musicians get their break by discovering a new singer, but an unscrupulous agent steals the man's original songs.

Released on:	Friday, August 30, 1935
Duration:	85.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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IT'S IN THE AIR

A genial con man and his sidekick pose as aeronautic adventurers to scam wealthy guests at a desert resort.

Released on:	Friday, October 11, 1935
Duration:	80.33 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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OFFICER'S MESS, THE

A bungler regards his National Guard duty as a camping trip party and proceeds to drive his sergeant crazy.

Released on:	Saturday, November 9, 1935
Duration:	21.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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FIESTA DE SANTA BARBARA, LA

MGM actors attend the annual Fiesta celebration in Santa Barbara, CA.

Released on:	Saturday, December 7, 1935
Duration:	18.6 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (4 votes)

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WHILE THE CAT'S AWAY

Two husbands scramble to clean the party time mess before their wives return home from a trip.

Released on:	Saturday, January 4, 1936
Duration:	22 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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FOR THE LOVE OF PETE

In the first of Vitaphone's "Joe Palooka" shorts, Knobby Walsh promotes a grudge match between the boxing champ and a local named Joe Palooka.

Released on:	Saturday, March 14, 1936
Duration:	21.8 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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SPEED

A race car test driver becomes romantically involved while trying to perfect a revolutionary new carburetor design at his own risk.

Released on:	Friday, May 8, 1936
Duration:	70.25 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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ABSORBING JUNIOR

Two lazy brothers-in-law use the money for their nephew's dentist visit to bet on the horses, and attempt to pull the tooth themselves.

Released on:	Saturday, May 9, 1936
Duration:	21.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.43 / 10   (7 votes)

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HERE'S HOWE

Society gal Ann Howe convinces the new (but broke) champ Joe Palooka to fight an exhibition bout for charity at her family's estate.

Released on:	Saturday, June 6, 1936
Duration:	21.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.25 / 10   (4 votes)

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SAN FRANCISCO

Two lifelong friends, one a nightclub owner and the other a priest, are at odds over the former's love for an opera singer when the 1906 earthquake hits.

Released on:	Friday, June 26, 1936
Duration:	115.2 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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FOX FALL 1936 STUDIO TOUR

20th Century-Fox promo for theater owners and exhibitors, selling the studio's Fall 1936 schedule of films.

Released on:	Saturday, August 1, 1936
Duration:	15 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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FOX FALL 1936 EXHIBITOR'S REEL

20th Century-Fox promo for theater owners and exhibitors, selling the studio's Fall 1936 schedule of films.

Released on:	Saturday, August 1, 1936
Duration:	10 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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PUNCH AND BEAUTY

Joe Palooka and his opponent come to blows at their hotel, causing the match to be postponed and problems for Knobby.

Released on:	Saturday, August 15, 1936
Duration:	21.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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SING, BABY, SING

A radio singer finds herself caught up in a publicity stunt that gets out-of-hand and threatens the careers of herself and a boozing stage actor.

Released on:	Friday, August 21, 1936
Duration:	87.8 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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CHOKE'S ON YOU, THE

At a seaside training camp, Knobby sets up an exhibition match between Palooka and a pro wrestler.

Released on:	Saturday, September 12, 1936
Duration:	21.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (7 votes)

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LONGEST NIGHT, THE

A murder investigation locks down a department store at night, with employees and customers trapped with an unknown killer.

Released on:	Friday, October 2, 1936
Duration:	50.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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MAD HOLIDAY

An actor famous for playing a movie detective becomes mixed up in murder and theft on an ocean cruise.

Released on:	Friday, November 13, 1936
Duration:	71.33 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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BLONDE BOMBER, THE

Knobby takes Palooka on the vaudeville circuit to raise money, and they run afoul of a man who fell victim to one of Knobby's scams.

Released on:	Saturday, November 28, 1936
Duration:	21.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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MAN OF THE PEOPLE

A neighborhood lawyer is caught up in a local political machine's plots and turns crusader to bring it down.

Released on:	Friday, January 29, 1937
Duration:	81.1 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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KICK ME AGAIN

Knobby books Joe for a match with the French boxing champ in Paris, not realizing that it's a kick-boxing bout.

Released on:	Saturday, February 6, 1937
Duration:	21.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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GOOD OLD SOAK

A genial man is content to stay unemployed and drunk, but problems with his son may force him to assume responsibility for his family's welfare.

Released on:	Friday, April 23, 1937
Duration:	73.6 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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TAKING THE COUNT

Ann's society mother disapproves of her engagement to Palooka, and tries to set her up with a count who is actually after the Howe money.

Released on:	Saturday, April 24, 1937
Duration:	21.7 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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VARSITY SHOW

A formerly successful Broadway producer returns to his alma mater to help the students with their musical-comedy extravaganza.

Released on:	Saturday, September 4, 1937
Duration:	120 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HOLLYWOOD ROUND-UP

A western stunt double falls for a leading lady, crossing an egotistical cowboy star, and is framed for bank job pulled by a phony film company.

Released on:	Tuesday, November 16, 1937
Duration:	63 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.75 / 10   (4 votes)

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HEADIN' EAST

A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.

Released on:	Thursday, December 23, 1937
Duration:	63.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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LOVE IS A HEADACHE

A famous actress struggling for a new stage hit takes in two orphaned children in a publicity stunt.

Released on:	Friday, January 14, 1938
Duration:	73.1 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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HOLLYWOOD HOTEL

A musician wins a publicity gimmick Hollywood contract, has it cancelled, and tries to make it anyway with an aspiring actress and manager Ted Healy.

Released on:	Saturday, January 15, 1938
Duration:	109.5 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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OF HUMAN HEARTS

A young man clashes with his pastor father in 1840s Ohio, but nevertheless takes his parents' help to attend medical school.

Released on:	Friday, February 11, 1938
Duration:	103.2 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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CUCKOORANCHO

Joe is a wanderer who is mistaken for an American millionaire by the impoverished owner of a hacienda.

Released on:	Friday, March 25, 1938
Duration:	16.5 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   ( votes)

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NOT GUILTY ENOUGH

On trial for assault, Andy's recounts how his plan for a backyard garden was turned into a disaster by Shemp.

Released on:	Friday, September 30, 1938
Duration:	17 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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HOME ON THE RAGE

A business set-back sends Andy to a sickbed, and convinced his wife and obnoxious brother-in-law plan to kill him for the insurance.

Released on:	Friday, December 9, 1938
Duration:	16.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.71 / 10   (7 votes)

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BEHIND PRISON GATES

A State Police detective goes undercover as an inmate to investigate cons involved in an unsolved bank robbery, and becomes mixed up in a prison break plot.

Released on:	Friday, July 28, 1939
Duration:	63 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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ANOTHER THIN MAN

Nick and Nora Charles become embroiled in a murder investigation at a Long Island estate.

Released on:	Friday, November 17, 1939
Duration:	103 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.50 / 10   (4 votes)

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GLOVE SLINGERS

Unknown to his mother, a young man goes under his uncle's wing to train as a boxing contender.

Released on:	Friday, November 24, 1939
Duration:	17.75 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.11 / 10   (9 votes)

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MONEY SQUAWKS

Train station attendants Andy and Shemp guard a mine payroll from crooks.

Released on:	Friday, April 5, 1940
Duration:	17 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.89 / 10   (9 votes)

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HOT STEEL

Steel worker buddies become mixed up in corporate politics and murder involving the theft of a revolutionary new steel alloy.

Released on:	Friday, May 24, 1940
Duration:	64 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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LONE WOLF MEETS A LADY, THE

The Lone Wolf, a reformed jewel thief, becomes embroiled in the investigation of a stolen diamond necklace and murder.

Released on:	Thursday, May 30, 1940
Duration:	71 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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BOOBS IN THE WOODS

Andy's wife talks him into a camping trip, taking along his freeloading and obnoxious brother-in-law Shemp.

Released on:	Friday, May 31, 1940
Duration:	16.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.86 / 10   (7 votes)

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MILLIONAIRES IN PRISON

A doctor serving time for manslaughter begins clinic research to find a cure for Malta fever, and his cellmates help by offering themselves as test subjects.

Released on:	Friday, July 26, 1940
Duration:	64.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.40 / 10   (5 votes)

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PLEASED TO MITT YOU

Terry Kelly's rival for Kitty takes off with his college fund, and Terry tracks him to a roadhouse for a brawling showdown.

Released on:	Friday, September 6, 1940
Duration:	17.9 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.29 / 10   (7 votes)

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LEATHERPUSHERS, THE

Wrestler turned boxer helps a young woman and her camp to teach youngsters the sport of boxing, but fight fixers may ruin their plans.

Released on:	Friday, September 13, 1940
Duration:	64 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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BANK DICK, THE

A drinking layabout family man foils a bank robbery and winds up hired as a bank dick, but is soon mixed up in embezzlement for a get-rich scheme.

Released on:	Friday, November 29, 1940
Duration:	74 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.89 / 10   (9 votes)

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MURDER OVER NEW YORK

Charlie Chan investigates the murder of an old friend and a plot to sabotage Allied planes.

Released on:	Friday, December 13, 1940
Duration:	65 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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GIVE US WINGS

The Dead End Kids sign on to a crop dusting business, but the owner's reckless cost-cutting endangers his employees and leads to tragedy.

Released on:	Friday, December 20, 1940
Duration:	62 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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INVISIBLE WOMAN, THE

An eccentric scientist's invisibility machine experiment with a fashion model attracts the attention of an exiled gangster and his henchmen.

Released on:	Friday, December 27, 1940
Duration:	73 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (6 votes)

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LUCKY DEVILS

Two daredevil newsreel photographers cover the opening of a new dam and find Axis agents who are planning to blow it up.

Released on:	Friday, January 3, 1941
Duration:	62 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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SIX LESSONS FROM MADAME LA ZONGA

Rival con artists wind up conning each other on a cruise ship to Havana, while one's daughter falls for a ship's musician.

Released on:	Friday, January 17, 1941
Duration:	62 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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BUCK PRIVATES

Bud and Lou reluctantly join the Army to avoid a cop, but discover he's their new drill sergeant, and the boys become the bane of his existence.

Released on:	Friday, January 31, 1941
Duration:	84.2 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.80 / 10   (5 votes)

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MEET THE CHUMP

An investment broker commits himself to a sanitarium after squandering his nephew's trust fund, and becomes mixed up with kidnapping and racketeers.

Released on:	Friday, February 14, 1941
Duration:	60 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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ROAD SHOW

Feigning insanity to escape an arranged marriage, a millionaire escapes a sanitarium, takes a new identity and joins a travelling circus.

Released on:	Tuesday, February 18, 1941
Duration:	86 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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MR. DYNAMITE

A pro baseball pitcher stumbles into a murder investigation that leads to Axis agents plotting to sabotage American factories.

Released on:	Friday, March 7, 1941
Duration:	63.15 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS, THE

A society countess, actually an opportunist who romances wealthy men to maintain her lifestyle, falls for a sailor.

Released on:	Thursday, April 24, 1941
Duration:	79 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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NEWS OF THE DAY Vol. 12 # 272

Abbott & Costello PSA for US Defense Bonds.

Released on:	Wednesday, May 21, 1941
Duration:	1.25 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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TOO MANY BLONDES

Newlywed radio singers are already headed for a quickie Mexican divorce, unless a hotel staff can save the marriage and the act.

Released on:	Friday, May 23, 1941
Duration:	58 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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IN THE NAVY

Seamen Bud & Lou help a famous singer elude a movie magazine photographer after he enlists in the Navy under an assumed name.

Released on:	Friday, May 30, 1941
Duration:	85 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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TIGHT SHOES

A local racketeer blames a string of misfortunes on a pair of tight shoes in this comedy adaptation of the Damon Runyon short story.

Released on:	Friday, June 13, 1941
Duration:	68 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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SAN ANTONIO ROSE

Two singers and a bandleader open a new roadhouse nightclub, but a competitor and his bumbling henchmen have other ideas.

Released on:	Friday, June 20, 1941
Duration:	63 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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HIT THE ROAD

The Dead End Kids are paroled from reform school as wards of a wealthy gangster-gone-straight. A rival crook intends to use the kids in a revenge plot.

Released on:	Friday, June 27, 1941
Duration:	61 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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CRACKED NUTS

A conman and his stooge concoct a phony robot invention to defraud investors, targeting a small town innocent who's won $5,000 in a radio contest.

Released on:	Tuesday, July 1, 1941
Duration:	59 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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HOLD THAT GHOST

Bud & Lou become heirs to a gangster's fortune, set out for his mansion to find the inheritance, and run up against murder and rival gangsters.

Released on:	Thursday, August 7, 1941
Duration:	86 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.86 / 10   (7 votes)

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SCREEN SNAPSHOTS Series 21 # 2

Film clip tribute to Hollywood stars who died too soon, including Ted Healy.

Released on:	Friday, September 12, 1941
Duration:	10 min.
Featuring:	Ted Healy (Solo)
Average Rating:	0.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE

A newlywed playwright and his doctor wife discover that careers make romance difficult, so they try appointments for love.

Released on:	Friday, October 31, 1941
Duration:	88 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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HOOSIER BOY MAKES GOOD

Tribute to film censor Will H. Hays and the Indiana Society of Chicago's 30th annual banquet at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago.

Released on:	Saturday, December 13, 1941
Duration:	8.25 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HELLZAPOPPIN'

Olsen & Johnson create havoc at Universal Studios and in high society when they bring their Broadway revue HELLZAPOPPIN' to the movies.

Released on:	Friday, December 26, 1941
Duration:	84 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (4 votes)

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BUTCH MINDS THE BABY

A reformed safecracker turned babysitter becomes mixed up with former cronies on a payroll theft, and takes the infant along on the job.

Released on:	Friday, March 20, 1942
Duration:	76 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.00 / 10   (4 votes)

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MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER

An investigative reporter discovers a presumed-dead NY gangster has a new identity and is running a gambling racket from a MIssissippi casino.

Released on:	Friday, April 17, 1942
Duration:	60 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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STRANGE CASE OF DR. RX, THE

A private eye, his new bride, and a bumbling police sergeant played by Shemp investigate murders of acquitted criminals by a mysterious Dr. Rx.

Released on:	Friday, April 17, 1942
Duration:	66 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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PRIVATE BUCKAROO

A big band vocalist is drafted and has trouble accepting that Army regulations apply to celebrities too.

Released on:	Friday, June 12, 1942
Duration:	68 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (5 votes)

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STRICTLY IN THE GROOVE

Out west, Shemp, Leon Errol and Ozzie Nelson's orchestra become mixed up with young lovers and competing vacation hotels.

Released on:	Friday, November 20, 1942
Duration:	60 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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PITTSBURGH

Two coal miner buddies fight their way to the top of the steel industry, but split over ethical choices and the woman they both love.

Released on:	Friday, December 11, 1942
Duration:	98 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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ARABIAN NIGHTS

Baghdad circus performers aid an Arab king deposed by his brother, and with the beautiful Sherazade he works to free his people and regain the throne.

Released on:	Friday, December 25, 1942
Duration:	86 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.60 / 10   (5 votes)

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HOW'S ABOUT IT?

A record producer is charged with plagiarizing a hit record, with music and comedy from the Andrews Sisters, Shemp Howard and Buddy Rich.

Released on:	Friday, February 5, 1943
Duration:	61 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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IT AIN'T HAY

Bud & Lou help a neighborhood carriage driver find a new horse, but accidentally take off with the # 1 racehorse in the country.

Released on:	Friday, March 19, 1943
Duration:	81 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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KEEP 'EM SLUGGING

The Dead End Kids go legit with jobs on a department store loading dock and discover a fencing operation run by a store manager.

Released on:	Friday, April 2, 1943
Duration:	66 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS

Eddie Cantor and his bus driver look-alike become involved in an all-star musical comedy featuring Warner Brothers' top stars

Released on:	Friday, October 1, 1943
Duration:	127 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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CRAZY HOUSE

Olsen & Johnson form their own movie production company, inadvertently teaming with a broke investor and studio execs plotting to steal the film.

Released on:	Friday, October 8, 1943
Duration:	80 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (4 votes)

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HEY, ROOKIE!

A disillusioned Broadway producer joins the Army, but is ordered to put on a camp show starring his former love and leading lady.

Released on:	Thursday, April 6, 1944
Duration:	77 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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3 OF A KIND

Two vaudevillians take in an orphaned boy, help a friend launch a new restaurant, and wind up in a custody fight for the child.

Released on:	Saturday, July 22, 1944
Duration:	67 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS

Two bumblers hire on as plumbing assistants to pay a court fine, and proceed to disrupt a mansion's plumbing.

Released on:	Sunday, July 23, 1944
Duration:	17.33 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.50 / 10   (16 votes)

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MOONLIGHT AND CACTUS

On shore leave, a Merchant Marine and his buddies find the agricultural college students running his ranch are all girls, and dealing with cattle thieves.

Released on:	Friday, September 8, 1944
Duration:	59.5 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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STRANGE AFFAIR

A married couple who are also amateur sleuths investigate a poisoning and uncover an espionage ring of German spies.

Released on:	Thursday, October 5, 1944
Duration:	78 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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OPEN SEASON FOR SAPS

Woodcock takes his wife on a belated honeymoon, but crosses paths with a beautiful hotel guest and her hot-tempered Latin husband.

Released on:	Friday, October 27, 1944
Duration:	18.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.11 / 10   (9 votes)

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DOUGHGIRLS, THE

Wartime housing shortages find four girlfriends sharing a hotel room while upsetting their husbands, fiancees and the hotel's routine.

Released on:	Saturday, November 25, 1944
Duration:	102 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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CRAZY KNIGHTS

Two carnival showmen and their gorilla, along with a chauffeur, help a young woman investigate death threats in a spooky, countryside mansion.

Released on:	Friday, December 8, 1944
Duration:	63 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.67 / 10   (3 votes)

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EADIE WAS A LADY

A socialite college coed moonlights as a burlesque dancer, and when she achieves a measure of fame must keep her job secret from the school's dean.

Released on:	Tuesday, January 23, 1945
Duration:	67 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN

When Woodcock's fiancee jilts him after an innocent flirtation, he hires a gangster to kill him. When the fiancee returns, will he be able to call off the hit?

Released on:	Friday, February 16, 1945
Duration:	16.1 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.89 / 10   (9 votes)

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TROUBLE CHASERS

A boxer and his managers help a friend exonerate himself in a jewel theft and find the real crooks.

Released on:	Saturday, June 2, 1945
Duration:	62 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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WHERE THE PEST BEGINS

Obnoxious Shemp drives his new neighbor, an inventor for the government, crazy.

Released on:	Thursday, October 4, 1945
Duration:	17.33 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.77 / 10   (13 votes)

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HIT WITH A MISS, A

Shemp's remake of PUNCH DRUNKS, as a waiter who turns into a boxing contender every time he hears Pop Goes the Weasel.

Released on:	Thursday, December 13, 1945
Duration:	16.4 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.38 / 10   (13 votes)

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SAILOR TAKES A WIFE, THE

A sailor elopes with a USO hostess after one date, and when he's unexpectedly classified 4F, they find setting up a new household harder than expected.

Released on:	Friday, December 28, 1945
Duration:	91 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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PEOPLE ARE FUNNY

A humorous and fictional behind-the-scenes story of the popular radio program, PEOPLE ARE FUNNY.

Released on:	Friday, January 11, 1946
Duration:	92 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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GENTLEMAN MISBEHAVES, THE

A Broadway producer tries marrying for money and gambling to raise financing for his latest musical-comedy.

Released on:	Thursday, February 28, 1946
Duration:	74 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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MR. NOISY

Racketeers hire an obnoxious sports fan who annoys fellow spectators and players on the field to distract the star player of a team they've bet against.

Released on:	Friday, March 22, 1946
Duration:	16.6 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.14 / 10   (14 votes)

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TALK ABOUT A LADY

A musical-comedy about a millionaire's bequest to a kind-hearted woman, which pits his partner and widow against her while her friends turn their backs on her.

Released on:	Thursday, March 28, 1946
Duration:	71 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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JIGGERS, MY WIFE

A poker playing man lies to his wife and finds himself caught between a suspicious wife, a beautiful former acquaintance, and her jealous husband.

Released on:	Thursday, April 11, 1946
Duration:	17.8 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.63 / 10   (8 votes)

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FRENCH KEY, THE

An amateur sleuth is suspected of murdering a man found in his hotel room, and his investigation leads to a conspiracy involving rare gold coins.

Released on:	Saturday, May 18, 1946
Duration:	67 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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ONE EXCITING WEEK

Three crooks take advantage of an amnesiac war hero in order to steal a $10K award from the man's appreciative hometown.

Released on:	Saturday, June 8, 1946
Duration:	69 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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DANGEROUS BUSINESS

A young couple persuade a framed businessman to become their first law client, and set out to find the business partner and henchmen responsible for the crime.

Released on:	Thursday, June 20, 1946
Duration:	59 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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HIGH SCHOOL HERO

High school students try to lift student morale with help from professional band leaders.

Released on:	Saturday, September 7, 1946
Duration:	69 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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SOCIETY MUGS

Two pest exterminators are mistaken for an escort service and hired to attend a society dinner party.

Released on:	Monday, September 16, 1946
Duration:	16 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.54 / 10   (13 votes)

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BLONDIE KNOWS BEST

Dagwood Bumstead tries to avoid a process server, and becomes mixed up in Dithers' plan to land an account by switching identities.

Released on:	Thursday, October 17, 1946
Duration:	69 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	9.25 / 10   (4 votes)

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SLAPPILY MARRIED

Ladies' apparel shop owner Joe runs afoul of a customer and her jealous husband, causing his wife to leave him.

Released on:	Thursday, November 7, 1946
Duration:	16.8 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.10 / 10   (10 votes)

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GOOD BAD EGG, THE

In flashback, an inventor tells the tale of how he came to hate eggs after marrying a widow with an obnoxious, sabotaging brat of a son.

Released on:	Thursday, March 20, 1947
Duration:	17.25 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.71 / 10   (7 votes)

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BRIDE AND GLOOM

Newlywed Shemp has problems with his wife who suspects him of fooling around with a boxer's beautiful, blonde wife.

Released on:	Thursday, March 27, 1947
Duration:	16.33 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.23 / 10   (13 votes)

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WEDLOCK DEADLOCK

Obnoxious in-laws move in and up-end the honeymoon bliss of Joe and his new wife.

Released on:	Thursday, December 18, 1947
Duration:	16.25 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.38 / 10   (8 votes)

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JITTER BUGHOUSE

Joe and his band believe music can cure the mentally imbalanced and are hired by the nurse of an eccentric rich man.

Released on:	Thursday, April 29, 1948
Duration:	17.9 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	3.00 / 10   (6 votes)

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FEUDIN', FUSSIN', AND A-FIGHTIN'

Backwoods town rivalries in an annual foot race results in one's mayor detaining a travelling salesman to be a hot-footed ringer.

Released on:	Thursday, July 1, 1948
Duration:	78 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.50 / 10   (2 votes)

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CORONER CREEK

A rancher arrives in Coroner Creek seeking the wealthy landowner who was responsible for his fiancee's death.

Released on:	Thursday, July 1, 1948
Duration:	93 min.
Featuring:	Joe DeRita (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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AFRICA SCREAMS

A&C lead a shady con woman and her henchmen into darkest Africa in search of diamonds.

Released on:	Friday, May 27, 1949
Duration:	79 min.
Featuring:	Shemp Howard and Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.53 / 10   (15 votes)

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WAITING IN THE LURCH

A man obsessed with watching firefighters in action misses his wedding, so he seeks psychiatric help to keep his girl.

Released on:	Thursday, September 8, 1949
Duration:	15.75 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.17 / 10   (6 votes)

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JOE PALOOKA MEETS HUMPHREY

The honeymooning Palookas get involved with a benefit fight at a country resort hotel.

Released on:	Sunday, February 5, 1950
Duration:	65 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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OUTSIDE THE WALL

An ex-con finds life on the outside tough, and is targeted by crooks who think he has the inside track on a missing $1 million from an armored car robbery.

Released on:	Wednesday, February 8, 1950
Duration:	80 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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WOMAN IN HIDING

A woman fakes her death and assumes a new identity to hide from her husband, who wanted to kill her for her family fortune.

Released on:	Wednesday, February 22, 1950
Duration:	92 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (2 votes)

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DIZZY YARDBIRD

A rookie recruit drives his platoon sergeant crazy with his bumbling efforts.

Released on:	Thursday, March 9, 1950
Duration:	16.67 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.25 / 10   (4 votes)

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DESERT HAWK, THE

A desert crusader marries a princess by deception and sets out to defeat emirs plotting to kill her father.

Released on:	Tuesday, August 1, 1950
Duration:	74.33 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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'FRAIDY CAT

Two private eyes investigate a series of robberies and encounter a gang of crooks and their trained gorilla.

Released on:	Thursday, December 13, 1951
Duration:	16.1 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.33 / 10   (6 votes)

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AIM, FIRE, SCOOT

Two reluctant recruits drive their sergeant crazy, and the sergeant makes it worse for himself by falling for one's girlfriend.

Released on:	Thursday, March 13, 1952
Duration:	15.9 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.40 / 10   (5 votes)

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CAUGHT ON THE BOUNCE

To avoid foreclosure Joe and his wife hope to borrow money from her aunt. On the train to visit her, they cross paths with a bank robber.

Released on:	Thursday, October 9, 1952
Duration:	15.6 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.63 / 10   (8 votes)

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DAY IN THE COUNTRY, A

Joe Besser provided the narration in this comedic story of two boys and their grandmother visiting a farm. Filmed in 3-D.

Released on:	Friday, March 13, 1953
Duration:	13 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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SPIES AND GUYS

A bumbling private goes behind enemy lines to infiltrate enemy headquarters and rescue his Lt. girlfriend.

Released on:	Thursday, April 9, 1953
Duration:	16 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	7.00 / 10   (7 votes)

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I, THE JURY

First film adaptation of Mickey Spillane's "Mike Hammer" classic as the P.I. investigates the death of a war buddy and uncovers a smuggling operation.

Released on:	Friday, August 14, 1953
Duration:	87 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	8.00 / 10   (3 votes)

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SINS OF JEZEBEL

King Ahab weds the conniving Princess Jezebel, who plans to take total control of Israel and sends her husband's advisers into exile.

Released on:	Friday, September 4, 1953
Duration:	74 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.33 / 10   (3 votes)

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FIRE CHASER, THE

In order to win back his ex-fiancee, a man obsessed with chasing fire trucks must crash her wedding and elude her father.

Released on:	Thursday, September 30, 1954
Duration:	15.8 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	3.17 / 10   (6 votes)

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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS

Set in the days of silent film, A&C are cheated by a con man and travel to Hollywood to find him posing as a comedy director.

Released on:	Wednesday, February 2, 1955
Duration:	79 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	6.20 / 10   (5 votes)

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G. I. DOOD IT

Pvt. Marblehead's bumbling tests the patience and sanity of Sgt. Flint, meanwhile there is a mystery involving stolen documents and a spy on the base.

Released on:	Thursday, February 17, 1955
Duration:	16.1 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	4.50 / 10   (6 votes)

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MAD AT THE WORLD

When the police cannot find the gang members who killed a young child, a father turns vigilante to find the killers.

Released on:	Friday, May 13, 1955
Duration:	76 min.
Featuring:	Joe Besser (Solo)
Average Rating:	5.00 / 10   (1 votes)

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HEADLINE HUNTERS

A novice investigative reporter is fired due to a jealous news veteran, but turns to him when he finds a lead in the murder of a high-ranking city official.