Dizzy Doctors (1937)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

Charlie Melson (story)
Albert Ray (screenplay)

Release Date:

19 March 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car...

Plot Keywords:

Hospital | Elevator | Medical | The Three Stooges | Ambulance

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Earle D. Bunn	...	Patient (uncredited)
Bobby Burns	...	Man in Wheelchair (uncredited)
Louise Carver	...	Lady By Car (uncredited)
Casey Colombo	...	Patient at bottom of pile (uncredited)
Lew Davis	...	Man driving small car (uncredited)
Vernon Dent	...	Dr. Harry Arms (uncredited)
Charles Dorety	...	Customer (uncredited)
June Gittelson	...	Moe's Wife (uncredited)
A.R. Haysel	...	Dandruff Patient (uncredited)
William Irving	...	Patient (uncredited)
Bud Jamison	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Ione Leslie	...	Curly's Wife (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson	...	Shoeshine Victim (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas	...	Patient (uncredited)
Betty MacMahon	...	Secretary (uncredited)
Ella McKenzie	...	Nurse (uncredited)
Frank Mills	...	Dr. Bright (uncredited)
James C. Morton	...	Man on Street (uncredited)
Eva Murray	...	Larry's Wife (uncredited)
Cy Schindell	...	Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
Al Thompson	...	Hospital Attendant (uncredited)
Harley Wood	...	Desk Nurse (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charlie Melson		story
Albert Ray		screenplay (as Al Ray)

Produced by
Jules White	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Benjamin H. Kline		(as Benjamin Kline)

Film Editing by
Charles Nelson

Music Department
Louis Silvers	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1937) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Screen Gems Television

Runtime:

USA:20 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe: [In a hospital, in a room with a microphone connected to the loudspeaker, hits the three skulls to make a musical jingle then hits Curly on the head] Hello, everybody, we just brought the moon over the mountain.
Curly: Hello, Ma. Hello, Pa. It wasn't much of a fight. I stood like that. But not for long.
[Moe hits him on the head]
Moe: Quiet. This broadcast comes to you through the courtesy of Brighto. And it's six delicious flavors. Chocolate, Vanilla, Cranberry, Strawberry.
Curly: And raspberry.
[Moe slaps him]
Curly: Ow. It's still raspberry.
[Sticks his tongue out, Moe hits him on the head]
Curly: Ow!
Moe: Now keep quiet or I'll sock you again.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in From Nurse to Worse (1940)

one of their best executed shorts

As a red-blooded American male, I honor my heritage and fulfill my destiny by working hard, paying taxes, and loving the work of The Three Stooges. Especially the great body of work produced during their first seven years at Columbia, from 1934-40. Moe Howard would later claim it was tough sledding for the Stooges then, because the studio kept them in a constant state of apprehension as to their future employment; but the shorts they made prior to 1940 stand the test of time as the freshest, most vibrant, and most fall-down-funny stuff they recorded on film.

"Dizzy Doctors" is a great example of this trio's comedy in it's prime. So much incident is packed into such a short running time; the boy's getting the job selling Brighto, their encounters with the cop and the car owner, their "broadcast" on the hospital intercom, the wheelchair mishap in the hospital corridor...I could go on and on. This film is hysterical.

The boys are at their peak here, years away from Curly's decline, reduced budgets, 'remakes' loaded with old footage, and Joe Besser. From 1934 until 1940 Stooge Comedy was pristine, and "Dizzy Doctors" stands as one of the best examples.