Dopey Dicks

Dopey Dicks
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Directed by	Edward Bernds
Written by	Edward Bernds
Produced by	Hugh McCollum
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Christine McIntyre Philip Van Zandt Stanley Price
Cinematography	Rex Wimpy
Edited by	Edwin H. Bryant
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.

Notes

• A colorized version of Dopey Dicks was released in 2007. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Hapless Half-Wits."

The Stooges are office cleaners, and 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 rushed in begging for help. 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 is building an army of robot men to take over the world. 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 evil assistant 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.

Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2] (Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).