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7.2/10   104 votes
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Director:
Del Lord
Writer:
Del Lord (writer)
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Release Date:
30 December 1943 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Short more
Tagline:
Crammed with rib-tickling comedy!
Plot:
The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
One of the weaker shorts with Curly more

Cast

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Curly Howard ... Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine ... Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard ... Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dudley Dickerson ... Watchman (uncredited)
Al Hill ... Crook (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey ... Police Chief (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor ... Policeman (uncredited)
Al Thompson ... Policeman (uncredited)
John Tyrrell ... Joe--Crook (uncredited)
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Directed by
Del Lord 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Del Lord  writer

Produced by
Hugh McCollum .... producer
 
Cinematography by
John Stumar 
 
Film Editing by
Paul Borofsky 
 
Art Direction by
Victor Greene 
 
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Runtime:
17 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
One of the weaker shorts with Curly, 20 August 2003
Author: csweetleaf2 from Walla Walla, WA

I think that this short was the beginning of the decline for stooge director/writer Del Lord, who had a string of classic stooge shorts like A Plumbing We Will Go, Hoi Polloi, Cash and Carry, No Census No Feeling, Cactus Makes Perfect, They Stooge to Conga and Higher Than a Kite but his writing skills is mediocre at best, and I actually think that this was also the first stooge short which Hugh McCollum started producing on his own.

The boys appear to be doctors but they are janitors working the night shift and there's a funny scene when Curly swallows a goldfish and Moe and Larry try to catch the fish with a fishing pole and when one of the bad guys gets shot and they make the stooges operate and they wounded bad guy falls outside the window and the bad guys flee only to get caught at the end of the short.

The first half is hilarious but the second half loses its steam and I think that this short is one of Top 20 worst stooge shorts with Curly in it.

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