Three Loan Wolves

Three Loan Wolves

The Stooges recount to their ward how they came to adopt him. A woman left him with Larry at the Stooges pawn shop. Debut of supporting Stooge actor Harold Brauer.

NR 1946 · 17 min · ★ 7.3 · Comedy

Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop, owed money to the gashouse protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in the shop as part of a plan to sell a phony diamond and the stooges wind up caring for the kid. The stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish telling the story, the kid goes off to find his real mother.

Directed by Jules White · Written by Felix Adler

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Cast

Moe Howard Moe
Curly Howard Curly
Larry Fine Larry
Beverly Warren Molly the Glamour Girl
Tiny Brauer Butch McGee
Jackie Jackson Eggbert - tough little boy (uncredited)
Wally Rose First Henchman (uncredited)
Joe Palma Second Henchman (uncredited)

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