Dopey Dicks

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Dopey Dicks
Directed by Edward Bernds
Produced by Hugh McCollum
Written by Elwood Ullman
Starring Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Christine McIntyre
Philip Van Zandt
Stanley Price
Cinematography Vincent J. Farrar
Editing by Henry DeMond
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates March 2, 1950
Running time 15' 43"
Country United States
Language English

Dopey Dicks is the 122nd short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The boys get spooked by Ralph the butler (Stanley Price) in Dopey Dicks
Colorized title card from Dopey Dicks

The Stooges are janitors who have just finished moving furniture and assorted items into the office of a detective. Shemp fantisizes about the exciting life of a private eye, when a beautiful blonde in distress (Christine McIntyre) rushes in begging for help, claiming she is being followed. While the Stooges search the hallways, she quickly scribbles a note and is captured by a mysterious figure.

The Stooges follow her note to a dark house on Mortuary Road where an evil scientist (Philip Van Zandt) is building an army of robot men. Fanning out to search, Shemp finds the girl tied up and gagged in a curtained alcove at the end of the main hallway. The scientist and his assistant (Stanley Price) then try to dispose of the Stooges, but the Stooges overcome the odds and escape with the girl in a car driven by one of the scientist's robots.

In popular culture

Dopey Dicks was one of four Stooge films included in the TBS 1992 Halloween special The Three Stooges Fright Night.

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