Half Shot Shooters

Half Shot Shooters

NR 1936 · 19 min · ★ 7.1 · Comedy

The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.

Directed by Jack White · Written by Clyde Bruckman

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