An Ache in Every Stake

An Ache in Every Stake

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NR 1941 · 18 min · ★ 7.8 · Comedy

The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.

Directed by Del Lord · Written by Lloyd French

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Cast

Curly Howard Curly
Moe Howard Moe
Larry Fine Larry
Gino Corrado The Cook (uncredited)
Vernon Dent Poindexter Lawrence (uncredited)
Bess Flowers Mrs. Lawrence (uncredited)
Bud Jamison The Baker (uncredited)

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