Vernon Dent — Actor (43)
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Musty Musketeers (1954) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Musty Musketeers
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: The Three Stooges in musty muskeeters
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
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Booby Dupes (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Booby Dupes
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
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Idle Roomers (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Idle Roomers
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
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Mummy's Dummies (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mummy's Dummies
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
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Idiots Deluxe (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Idiots Deluxe
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
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Half-Wits Holiday (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Half-Wits Holiday
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
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Squareheads of the Round Table (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Squareheads of the Round Table
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
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Even as IOU (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Even as IOU
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Even As IOU
A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
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Higher Than a Kite (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Higher Than a Kite
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
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Crash Goes the Hash (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crash Goes the Hash
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
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Half Shot Shooters (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Half Shot Shooters
director: Jack White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
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Murder at Midnight (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Murder at Midnight
director: Frank R. Strayer actor: Aileen Pringle / Alice White …
other title: 谋杀夜
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cactus Makes Perfect
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
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Mutts to You (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mutts to You
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
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A Ducking They Did Go (1939) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Ducking They Did Go
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
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Slippery Silks (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Slippery Silks
director: Jack White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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From Nurse to Worse (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
From Nurse to Worse
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.