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Three Pests in a Mess

Jan 19, 1945 · 15m
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Comedy

PLOT

The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.

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CAST

Curly Howard
Curly
Larry Fine
Larry
Moe Howard
Moe
Christine McIntyre
Cheatham's Secretary
Brian O'Hara
I. Cheatham
Vernon Dent
Philip Black
Heinie Conklin
Devil (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Cemetery Guard (uncredited)
Directed by Del Lord

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Columbia Pictures
Country
US

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