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Blunder Boys

  • 1955
  • U
  • 16m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Barbara Donaldson, Bonnie Henjum, Shemp Howard, Marjorie Jackson, and June Lebow in Blunder Boys (1955)
ParodySlapstickComedyCrimeShort

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.

  • Director
    • Jules White
  • Writer
    • Felix Adler
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Shemp Howard
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    420
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jules White
    • Writer
      • Felix Adler
    • Stars
      • Moe Howard
      • Larry Fine
      • Shemp Howard
    • 10User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Halliday
    • (as Moe)
    Larry Fine
    Larry Fine
    • Tarraday
    • (as Larry)
    Shemp Howard
    Shemp Howard
    • Days
    • (as Shemp)
    Benny Rubin
    Benny Rubin
    • The Eel
    Angela Stevens
    Angela Stevens
    • Alma Matter
    Kenneth MacDonald
    Kenneth MacDonald
    • Capt. F.B. Eye
    Barbara Bartay
    • Beautician
    • (uncredited)
    Barbara Donaldson
    • Turkish Bath Tanner
    • (uncredited)
    Bonnie Henjum
    • Turkish Bather in Swimsuit
    • (uncredited)
    Marjorie Jackson
    • Turkish Bath Brunette
    • (uncredited)
    June Lebow
    • Turkish Bath Blonde
    • (uncredited)
    Emil Sitka
    Emil Sitka
      Frank Sully
      Frank Sully
      • Watts D. Matter
      • (uncredited)
      Al Thompson
      Al Thompson
      • Hotel Clerk
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Jules White
      • Writer
        • Felix Adler
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      crusefamily

      Not bad for Shemp's last completed film.

      BLUNDER BOYS was a pretty good short considering it was Shemp's last completed film. The rest of his films were: HUSBANDS BEWARE, CREEPS, FLAGPOLE JITTERS, & FOR CRIMIN' OUT LOUD. Sadly, four of his shorts were shot with a double after he died in 1955. But BLUNDER BOYS isn't too bad for being Shemp's last completed film.

      *** out of 5 stars.
      9troygood1

      Dum De Dumb Dum.... Dum De Dumb Dum Dump.....

      "Blunder Boys" happens to be a parody of an old Crime Drama " Dragnet" Moe makes a good dead-pan narration of LAPD detective Joe Friday, as played by the Late Jack Webb. Webb was the driving force of Universal-Based Mark VII Limited Productions (The logo that featured the hammer and chisel, and #7 which is etched in stone-in roman numerals. Moe was Halliday, Larry was Tarraday, and Shemp played various characters that ends in day (St. Patrick's Day, Groundhog Day, New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day). There were good detectives, but The Boys ended up on the streets-somebody HAS to do the dirty work around here. A great stooge short. See it in its entirety commercial-free, NOT on Spike. BTW: what's the 81-C? A double-eye poke in which Moe gave to BOTH Larry and Shemp. Don't Try This or ANY other pain-crunching methods at home.
      7SnoopyStyle

      RIP Shemp

      Halliday (Moe Howard), Tarraday (Larry Fine), and various Days (Shemp Howard) are cops in a parody of Dragnet. They recount their days in the Army, the police academy, and during a particular case to track master criminal The Eel.

      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.
      angus_dei

      Routine 81-C

      This Stooges short is unique. First of all, the Stooges do not go by their real names (Moe, Larry, Shemp), but rather by Dragnet-inspired monikers Farraday, Tarraday, and any of several holidays (for Shemp's character) ranging from St. Patrick's Day to New Year's Day. In one sequence, the Stooges liken themselves to the anatomy of the human hand---Larry is metaphorically the middle finger. The two seconds or so of film where Larry displays his representative digit were blacked out by a Boston television station---Hence Larry was "banned in Boston," although his "gesture" was in no way obscene! The highlight of the film, however, has to be Routine 81-C, which Moe commands Larry and Shemp to prepare for and carry out. Unwillingly, but resignedly, Larry and Shemp do just that---Moe holds out two fingers of each outstretched hand, and Larry and Shemp run into Moe's fingers, thereby giving themselves eye-pokes. I have seen Routine 81-C countless times, and have died laughing every one of them.
      7bkoganbing

      Stooges Want The Facts, Just The Facts

      One of the better Three Stooges shorts with Shemp is Blunder Boys, a very funny spoof of Dragnet which was in its original run on television and very popular at the time.

      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.

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      • Trivia
        This is the one Stooges' short where Kenneth MacDonald plays a good guy (a police chief).
      • Goofs
        When 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!

      • Connections
        Referenced in Svengoolie: Creature with the Atom Brain (2020)

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      • Release date
        • November 3, 1955 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Official site
        • YouTube - Video
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Cuckoo Cops
      • Production company
        • Columbia Pictures
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      • Runtime
        16 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.85 : 1

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