Movie: Three Pests in a Mess

Top 8 Billed Cast

Curly Howard
Curly Howard

Curly

Larry Fine
Larry Fine

Larry

Moe Howard
Moe Howard

Moe

Christine McIntyre
Christine McIntyre

Cheatham's Secretary

Brian O'Hara
Brian O'Hara

I. Cheatham

Vernon Dent
Vernon Dent

Philip Black

Heinie Conklin
Heinie Conklin

Devil (uncredited)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Cemetery Guard (uncredited)

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    Three Pests in a Mess

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    The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.

  • Release Date

    1945-01-19

  • Average

    6.3

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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  • Languages:

    English

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