Hugs and Mugs

Hugs and Mugs (1950)

The Stooges' own brand of riotous comedy!

The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The stooges defeat the bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace to its rightful owner.

Date of release
1950-02-02
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Hugs and Mugs is a 1950 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 121st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Hugs and Mugs was filmed over three days on February 15–17, 1949.

The comedic device wherein a sofa spring becomes inadvertently affixed to an individual's posterior is also featured in Hoi Polloi (1935), Three Little Sew and Sews (1939), An Ache in Every Stake (1941) and Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959).

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