Flagpole Jitters

The Three Stooges hit a new high in low-down laughs

APPROPIATE

1956 / 16min.

Rating5.5

Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.

Directors

Jules White

Actors

Moe Howard

David Bond

Shemp Howard

Larry Fine

Mary Ainslee

Vernon Dent

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