The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himse... Read allThe stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands afte... Read allThe stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers.
- Halliday
- (as Moe)
- Tarraday
- (as Larry)
- Days
- (as Shemp)
- Beautician
- (uncredited)
- Turkish Bath Tanner
- (uncredited)
- Turkish Bather in Swimsuit
- (uncredited)
- Turkish Bath Brunette
- (uncredited)
- Turkish Bath Blonde
- (uncredited)
- Watts D. Matter
- (uncredited)
- Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
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*** out of 5 stars.
Shemp would die soon after this. I'm not sure if the Stooges did more spoofs. They did a fine job with this one. I wonder if they could have gone on a whole rift with the new TV shows. Moe does a nice deadpan narration. Shemp's Days bit is stupid fun. At the end of the Days, that's all that is required. It's stupid fun.
Moe narrates the film and its how the Stooges become police detectives in the crisp staccato style of Sergeant Joe Friday. Of course this is the Three Stooges so some liberties are taken with the facts.
There is a brief prologue in which Stooges are shown during World War II fighting a rear guard action, the only kind they know how as Moe informs us. Larry comes into his own in this film with a very funny bit about how he is dazed, but in that condition of stupor wipes out an enemy machine gun nest singlehanded.
The climax of the film involves the boys tangling with a criminal in drag in the person of vaudeville veteran Benny Rubin who must have been on loan from Jack Benny because Rubin was something of a semi-regular on his TV show. Rubin and Shemp have some battle of wits.
Blunder Boys, a very enjoyable short subject that concentrates on only the facts ma'am.
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the one Stooges' short where Kenneth MacDonald plays a good guy (a police chief).
- GoofsWhen Shemp's stunt double falls from the hole he made in the ceiling, you can see the wig fall from his head.
- Quotes
Moe: I'm Halliday.
[holds up his badge]
Larry: I'm Terriday.
[holds up his badge]
Shemp: I'm St. Patrick's Day!
[holds up a shamrock]
Moe: When we first started out, I never thought we'd be three fingers on the arm of the law
[holds up his index finger]
Moe: I'm the first finger.
Larry: [holds out his middle finger] I'm the second finger.
Shemp: [holds out his pinky, with a sad look on his face] I'm the hangnail!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Svengoolie: Creature with the Atom Brain (2020)
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- Cuckoo Cops
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- Runtime16 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1