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Everybody is a comic in this Three Stooges picture. The killer Dillon clan are shooting up a Western town and Nell (Christine McIntyre) sends her handsome, but clumsy oaf of a sweetheart, Elmer, off to get help. Help comes in the form of the Stooges, who are playing a trio of cavalrymen so incompetent that their frustrated sergeant sends them on the mission only because he believes they won't return alive. The boys dress up as desperadoes and enter the town's saloon, doing their best to appear tough. While ordering drinks, Shemp asks for a milkshake "made with sour milk!" Their lack of prowess in all things Western is immediately apparent, and on top of that, the gang's leader (Kenneth MacDonald) figures out they are spies. The Stooges attempt a different kind of disguise. This time they're waiters, but their fake mustaches give them away in almost record time. Eventually they do emerge victorious over the bad guys, but it's only with Nell's help (she's upstairs, cold-cocking every bad guy who has the misfortune to enter her room), and Shemp's winning battle with two of the bad men and a stick of dynamite. Elmer shows up eventually and when he tells Nell that cowboys don't settle down, she beans him with a piece of crockery. This knocks some sense into him, ending the picture on something of a romantic note.
Proprietors of the Shangri-La Upholstery Shop, the Three Stooges purchase a chair which comes complete with a concealed necklace. Before they know it, three girls (Christine McIntyre, Nanette Bordeaux, and Kathleen O'Malley) arrive to claim the find as belonging to them. A pleasant enough two-reel comedy, Hugs and Mugs was still a far cry from the team's earlier work.
A generally amusing 2-reel comedy, Dopey Dicks feature The Three Stooges as victims of a mad scientist (Philip Van Zandt, who is searching for a human brain for his mechanical man. As always, Christine McIntyre is present for pulchritude. The plot was lifted from an earlier El Brendel short, Boobs in the Night (1943).
Waiting for their war brides to arrive from France, The Three Stooges get drunk and end up with their feet in cement in this average 2-reel comedy. Regular Stooges leading lady Christine McIntyre was joined by Gallic starlets Yvette Reynard and Maria Montiel and veteran stunt-man Al Thompson appeared in a bit part. Love at First Bite was remade by the Stooges in 1958 as Fifi Blows Her Top.
In an intriguing concept that doesn't quite come off, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Shemp) play all the roles in this two-reel comedy, four each. The story -- what there is of it -- is something about three painters and their " lovely" models.
In this fairly amusing two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges play theater with aspirations to become thespians. They are finally awarded parts in a tragedy ("The Bride Wore Spurs") -- which they promptly turn into a farce. About to be kicked out on their ears, the Stooges suddenly become heroes when a critic pronounces the play a hilarious success. Comedian Jerry Lewis' father, Danny Lewis, appeared as one of the Stooges acting colleagues. A veteran nightclub entertainer, Papa Lewis, according to Stooges producer/director Jules White, "possessed little of his famous son's timing or talent."
A typically zany Three Stooges short, Studio Stoops features Moe, Larry and Shemp as exterminators turned publicists for the B.O. Movie Studio. Their first assignment is to create interest in starlet Dolly Devore (Christine McIntyre), which they accomplish by faking a kidnapping. Unfortunately, a gang of real kidnappers gets in on the act and all hell breaks loose. If nothing else, this 2-reeler provides enticing glimpses of Columbia's short subject department as it appeared in 1950.
In this, their penultimate two-reel comedy of 1950, the Three Stooges play detectives masquerading as gas station attendants for the Great Onion Oil Company in order to foil a robbery.
In their final 2-reel comedy of 1950, The Three Stooges play owners of Ye Olde Furniture Shoppe who, attempting to deliver furniture to a boarding house occupied by crooks. Written by the experienced Elwood Ullman, A Snitch in Time was arguably the Stooges' best effort of 1950.
