Violent Is the Word for Curly

Violent Is the Word for Curly

THEY'RE CRACKED IN THE CRANIUM...ON A CUCKOO CAMPUS!

NR 1938 · 18 min · ★ 7.1 · Comedy

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

Directed by Charley Chase · Written by Al Giebler

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Curly Howard Curly
Larry Fine Larry
Moe Howard Moe
Bud Jamison Acme Service Station Owner (uncredited)
Samuel Adams Professor Feinstein (uncredited)
Beatrice Blinn Brainy Astronomy Student (uncredited)
Al Thompson Professor Frankfurter (uncredited)

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