Slaphappy Sleuths (1950)
The Stooges fool around with their own form of Laughing Gas!
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
- Date of release
- 1950-11-09
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Jules White
Casting
- Moe Howard — Moe
- Larry Fine — Larry
- Shemp Howard — Shemp
- Stanley Blystone — Crook
- Emil Sitka — Emil, a Customer
- Gene Roth — Fuller Grime
- Joe Palma — Crook (uncredited)
- Blackie Whiteford — Crook (uncredited)
- Nanette Bordeaux — Louise (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Slaphappy Sleuths is a 1950 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 127th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who appeared in 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Production notes
Slaphappy Sleuths was filmed on April 11–14, 1949 and released 19 months later in November 1950.
The gag of a third Stooge acting like a bloodhound and tries to sniff out the tracks of enemies was also used in Goofs and Saddles (1937) and Phony Express (1943). The gas pumps have female gas names: Ethel, Hazel, and Becky.
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