Movie: Flagpole Jitters

Top 6 Billed Cast

Shemp Howard
Shemp Howard

Shemp

Larry Fine
Larry Fine

Larry

Moe Howard
Moe Howard

Moe

David Bond
David Bond

The Great Svengarlic

Vernon Dent
Vernon Dent

Insurance Adjustor (archive footage)

Mary Ainslee
Mary Ainslee

Mary (archive footage)

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1956-04-05

  • Average

    5.5

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
  • Tagline

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

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English

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