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Spooks! (1953) starring the Three Stooges - Moe, Larry and Shemp

Spooks! (1953) is a Three Stooges short film featuring Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard as three inept detectives who are hired to find Bea Bopper (Norma Randall), who has been kidnapped by mad scientist Dr. Jeckyl (Philip Van Zandt), who plans to transplant her brain into that of a gorilla. The Three Stooges track them down, and enter the mad scientist’s hideout disguised as pie salesman, and encounter the mad Dr. Jeckyl, his henchman and the gorilla—and after a short pie fight, and with the gorilla’s aid, they rescue the girl and escape. The gorilla gets the last laugh, throwing pies at Moe, Larry, Shemp and the damsel in distress.

One noteworthy point is that Spooks! is one of only two Three Stooges short films that were released in 3-D, and the short film makes the most of this, with the mad scientist aiming a needle directly at the audience, throwing pies, etc. It has several cute moments, such as Shemp making a word play on ‘bebop’, and the close-up view of “a hideous, monsterous face!” of a bat—with Shemp’s face! A cute short film, but nothing exceptional. Spooks! is available on The Three Stooges Collection volume 3.

3-D image of Moe Howard from Spooks!

Funny movie quotes from Spooks! (1953) starring the Three Stooges - Moe, Larry and Shemp

Sign: Super Slueth Detective Agency - Divorce evidence manufactured to your order - don’t knock walk IN

Moe: What’s your name?
Client: George B. Bopper.
Shemp: Oh a bee bopper! Dig that crazy bopper name! Cool man, real george! Give me some skin!

[After Moe has poked Shemp in the eyes]
Shemp: I can’t see! I can’t see!
Curly: What’s wrong?
Shemp: I got my eyes shut. [Moe slaps him] They’re open

Shemp (Shemp Howard): Moe, there’s somethin’ fishy here!
Moe (Moe Howard): Yeah, you too suckers!

Dr. Hyde (Philip Van Zandt): (after sitting on a hypodermic needle) I"m losing my mind!

Shemp: Moe! We’re trapped like rats!
Curly: Speak for yourself!

Miss Bopper: No, no Dr. Jekyll!
Shemp: Dr. Jekyll? We must hide!

Shemp (Shemp Howard): That great, big chimney-panzee! He looked just like my mother-in-law!

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