Three Pests in a Mess (1945)
The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
Director: Del Lord
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Curly Howard as Curly |
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Larry Fine as Larry |
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Moe Howard as Moe |
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Christine McIntyre as Cheatham's Secretary |
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Brian O'Hara as I. Cheatham |
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Vernon Dent as Philip Black |
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Heinie Conklin as Devil (uncredited) |
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Harry 'Snub' Pollard as Cemetery Guard (uncredited) |
| Production | Hugh McCollum | Producer |
| Writing | Del Lord | Writer |
| Directing | Del Lord | Director |
| Editing | Henry Batista | Editor |
| Art | Charles Clague | Art Direction |
| Camera | Benjamin H. Kline | Director of Photography |