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Released May 05, 1949
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
Columbia
16.3 min. (Short Subject)

The Stooges are taking care of Mary, their downstairs neighbor who is confined to a wheelchair after an accident. What they don't know is that Mary is faking her injuries for the insurance money. The boys have jobs hanging posters at a theater, where they run into The Great Svengarlic. They try to talk him into curing Mary, but instead he hypnotizes them for a publicity stunt, and sends them out on a flagpole to dance many stories above the street. When Svengarlic is knocked out by a bicyclist, the Boys come to and find themselves clinging to the flagpole for dear life.

Remade as FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956), with stock footage.

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Avg. Rating: [8.90/10]
 
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Vernon Dent
Insurance adjuster

David Bond
Svengarlic

Ned Glass
Svengarlic's manager

Johnny Kascier
Man on bike


Jules White
Producer

Jules White
Director

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

Vincent Farrar
Director of Photography

Edwin Bryant
Film Editor

Robert Peterson
Art Director



















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