Dopey Dicks (1950)
The Stooges encounter a mad scientist seeking a human head for his mechanical man.
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.
- Date of release
- 1950-03-02
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Edward Bernds
Casting
- Shemp Howard — Shemp
- Larry Fine — Larry
- Moe Howard — Moe
- Christine McIntyre — Louise
- Philip Van Zandt — Professor
- Stanley Price — Ralph
- Gene Sheldon — Headless Robot (uncredited)
- William Kelley — Driving Headless Robot (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Dopey Dicks is a 1950 detective film short subject directed by Edward Bernds starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 122nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Production notes
Dopey Dicks was filmed on January 11–14, 1949, and released nearly 14 months later on March 2, 1950.
The film's title is a spoof of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. The unseen private eye is named Sam Shovel, a play on Dashiell Hammett's famed detective Sam Spade.
A colorized version of Dopey Dicks was released in 2007 as part of the DVD collection Hapless Half-Wits.
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