Dopey Dicks

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
Edited by	Henry DeMond
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	March 2, 1950 (1950-03-02) (U.S.)
Running time	15:43
Country	United States
Language	English

Dopey Dicks is the 122nd short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1950 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.1959.

Plot

The Stooges are janitors who have just finished moving furniture and assorted items into the office of a detective. Shemp fantasizes 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.

Production notes

The film title is a parody of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.^[1]

A colorized version of Dopey Dicks was released in 2007 as part of the DVD collection "Hapless Half-Wits."^[2]

In popular culture

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

References

External links

• Dopey Dicks at the Internet Movie Database
• Dopey Dicks at AllMovie