Flagpole Jitters

Flagpole Jitters

The Three Stooges hit a new high in low-down laughs

1956 · 16 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy

The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.

Directed by Jules White · Written by Felix Adler

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Shemp Howard Shemp
Larry Fine Larry
Moe Howard Moe
David Bond The Great Svengarlic
Vernon Dent Insurance Adjustor (archive footage)
Mary Ainslee Mary (archive footage)

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