Directing
Del Lord
Born October 7, 1894 · Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Died March 23, 1970 · aged 75
Del Lord was born on 7 October 1894 in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and producer, known for What Price Vengeance (1937), Barnum Was Right (1929) and Idle Roomers (1944). He died on 23 March 1970 in Calabasas, California, USA.
Known For
Strange Innertube · 1932Strange Innertube
★ 4.71932
MovieCrimeComedy
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
Whispering Whiskers · 1926Whispering Whiskers
★ 10.01926
MovieComedy
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.
Hoi Polloi · 1935Hoi Polloi
★ 7.31935
MovieComedy
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
Pardon My Scotch · 1935Pardon My Scotch
★ 7.21935
MovieComedy
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at a party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
The Soul of a Heel · 1938The Soul of a Heel
★ 8.01938
MovieComedy
Andy tries to win the approval of his prospective father in law.
Let's Go Steady · 1945Let's Go Steady
★ 9.01945
MovieMusicComedy
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
She's a Sweetheart · 1944She's a Sweetheart
★ 9.01944
MovieMusic
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
False Alarms · 1936False Alarms
★ 5.91936
MovieComedy
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
Movies
Strange Innertube · 1932Strange Innertube
★ 4.71932
MovieCrimeComedy
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
Whispering Whiskers · 1926Whispering Whiskers
★ 10.01926
MovieComedy
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with classic physical comedy.
Hoi Polloi · 1935Hoi Polloi
★ 7.31935
MovieComedy
A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
Pardon My Scotch · 1935Pardon My Scotch
★ 7.21935
MovieComedy
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at a party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
The Soul of a Heel · 1938The Soul of a Heel
★ 8.01938
MovieComedy
Andy tries to win the approval of his prospective father in law.
Let's Go Steady · 1945Let's Go Steady
★ 9.01945
MovieMusicComedy
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
She's a Sweetheart · 1944She's a Sweetheart
★ 9.01944
MovieMusic
In this musical drama, a woman turns her mansion into a boarding house for soldiers on furlough, providing them with room, board, and musical entertainment.
False Alarms · 1936False Alarms
★ 5.91936
MovieComedy
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
Phony Express · 1943Phony Express
★ 6.01943
MovieComedyWestern
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
All the World's a Stooge · 1941All the World's a Stooge
★ 6.81941
MovieComedy
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
Nervous Shakedown · 1947Nervous Shakedown
★ 9.01947
MovieComedy
Hugh and Dudley stay at Dr. Flint's Sanitarium, unaware that two escaped convicts are using the place for a hideout.
Movie Maniacs · 1936Movie Maniacs
★ 6.01936
MovieComedy
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Three Little Beers · 1935Three Little Beers
★ 7.11935
MovieComedy
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
South of the Boudoir · 1940South of the Boudoir
★ 7.01940
MovieComedy
Charley, over his wife's objections, has invited his boss over for dinner. Mrs. Chase walks out, and Charley hires a waitress to pose as his wife. Meanwhile, the boss picks up Mrs. Chase and brings her as his dinner guest.
Taxi Barons · 1933Taxi Barons
★ 8.01933
Movie
After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European baron and general. In the same guises they then invade a high society party with the gendarmes in close pursuit.
Some More of Samoa · 1941Some More of Samoa
★ 6.01941
MovieComedy
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
Topsy and Eva · 1927Topsy and Eva
★ 10.01927
MovieComedy
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
No Census, No Feeling · 1940No Census, No Feeling
★ 6.61940
MovieComedy
The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
Dizzy Doctors · 1937Dizzy Doctors
★ 7.41937
MovieComedy
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Gum Shoes · 1935Gum Shoes
★ 9.01935
MovieComedy
Two house detectives investigate a series of robberies committed by a trained gorilla.
Alibi Alley · 1927Alibi Alley
★ 3.31927
Movie
Aubrey plays a man with a mother-in-law problem at home and a boss problem at work.
The Awful Goof · 1939The Awful Goof
★ 7.01939
MovieComedy
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Bull and Sand · 1924Bull and Sand
★ 9.01924
MovieComedy
Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
Cactus Makes Perfect · 1942Cactus Makes Perfect
★ 6.01942
MovieWesternComedy
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
