Blunder Boys

Blunder Boys (1955)

Turkish Night In A Ladies' Bath!

The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. This was Shemp's last completed film.

Date of release
1955-11-03
TMDB
8.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Blunder Boys is a 1955 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 166th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Blunder Boys was the last Stooge film featuring Shemp Howard that was not a remake. In addition, it would also be the last film released during his lifetime; Shemp died of a heart attack 19 days later after its release. Filming was completed on January 24–26, 1955.

The premise of Blunder Boys is a parody of the television series Dragnet. The ending was also a parody of the company that ran Dragnet, (Mark VII Limited); Moe stamps the logo, "VII 1/2 The End", on Larry's head in a similar fashion to how it is done in the logo.

Of his 16 appearances with the Stooges, Blunder Boys marks the only time Kenneth MacDonald was not cast as the team's antagonist.

Blunder Boys was the last Stooges film to feature new footage of long-time supporting actor Al Thompson.

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