Three Pests in a Mess

Three Pests in a Mess

NR 1945 · 15 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy

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.

Directed by Del Lord · Written by Del Lord

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Curly Howard Curly
Larry Fine Larry
Moe Howard Moe
Christine McIntyre Cheatham's Secretary
Brian O'Hara I. Cheatham
Vernon Dent Philip Black
Heinie Conklin Devil (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard Cemetery Guard (uncredited)

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