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Released September 28, 1934
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
18 min. (Short Subject)

At Los Arms Hospital, three brainless interns - Doctors Howard, Fine and Howard - promise Dr. Graves, the hospital superintendent, that they will devote the rest of their lives to "duty and humanity!" Instructed to rush to any room whenever "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" is heard over the loudspeaker, call after call features an assortment of surreal, oddball doctors, nurses and patients. An emergency leads them to operate on Dr. Graves himself, after he accidentally swallows the combination to a safe containing life-saving radium.

This first official Three Stooges comedy was nominated for an Academy Award.

Several scenes were deleted, including an alternate ending with the Stooges meeting Nellie ("their" girl), who turned out to be Siamese triplets. MEN IN BLACK's full script can be found in The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, by Joan Howard-Maurer (Citadel 1984).

Opening title music is "I Thought I Wanted You," by Archie Gottler and Edward Eliscu; see The Three Stooges Journal # 87 (Fall 1998).

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Dell Henderson
Dr. Graves

Jeanie Roberts
Hiccupping nurse

Billy Gilbert
D. T. patient

Ruth Hiatt
Whispering nurse

Hank Mann
Window glass installer

Bobby Callahan
Telegram messenger

Lucile Watson
Matron in hallway

Phyllis Crane
Anna Conda

Arthur Rankin
Intern with Anna Conda

Joe Fine
Intern

Charles King
Anesthesiologist intern

Eve Reynolds
Nurse in hallway with instrument tray

Betty Andre
Reception nurse

Unidentified MEN IN BLACK 2
Patients and staff


Jules White
Producer

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

Benjamin Kline
Photography

James Sweeney
Film Editor



















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