Product Details

• Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Earle D. Bunn, Bobby Burns
• Directors: Del Lord
• Writers: Albert Ray, Charlie Melson
• Producers: Jules White
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: July 2, 1996
• Run Time: 20 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304092105
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,816 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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"Dizzy Doctors" (1937, short number 21 in the Columbia series) finds the boys married to working wives who bully them into getting jobs. Becoming salesmen for "Brighto," they think it is both a spot remover and car polisher; but when the product is put to those uses, the disastrous results set a policeman and a car owner (Vernon Dent) against them. Learning that Brighto is really a cure-all, they naturally try to sell it in a hospital (the very one they disrupted in "Men in Black"), meet the head of the place--Dent himself--and are chased into the distance to end a fast-paced short.

"Goofs and Saddles" (1937, number 25) begins with the boys sporting old-fashioned mustaches that actually make them look good! As cavalry scouts named Buffalow Billious, Wild Bill Hicup, and Just Plain Bill (their own spelling), they are sent to round up some rustlers. Now clean-shaven, they try cheating at poker, retreat when they see what happens to card sharks, and defeat the baddies by shooting bullets through a meat grinder. Classic bits throughout.

"Three Little Sew and Sews" (1938, number 36) has several unusual aspects. Although it takes place in "Telvana," the costumes are strictly U.S. Navy issue. For once in the 97 episodes in which Curly was a Stooge, he gets the upper hand as he dons an admiral's costume sent down to be pressed and lands Moe and Larry in the brig. After getting $5 from each to release them, he announces they will never pass through a second door. Trivia buffs should note that is one of the very few films in the series in which the boys end up dead! --Frank Behrens

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best stooge tapes ever!!!!, June 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Three Stooges: Dizzy Doctors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

3 of the best stooge shorts all on 1 tape. Worth every penny.

DIZZY DOCTORS - 1 of the best stooge shorts ever.
In this short the stooges are selling "Brighto" but mistake it for polish when it's really medicine. They end up destroying coats, shoes, and and even taking the paint off a car.
Quote of the short: "If you have a nic - nac with a nic in it, we'll knock the nic out of the nic - nac with Brighto." - Larry

GOOFS AND SADDLES - Really good short
In this short the stooges are tracking down cattle rustlers with many zany disguises. This short is one of the few when the stooges are the best men.
Quote of the short: "I'll tell them we're not home" - Curly

THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS - Good and funny short
In this short the stooges are tailors and put on officers clothes. Then they attend a party (as the officers) and end up capturing two spies.
Quote of the short: "I'm going to change my socks, wwwhhhaaattt an experience." - Moe

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dizzy Goofs and Little Sew and Sews, July 5, 2001

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Stooge (Naperville, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Three Stooges: Dizzy Doctors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

DIZZY DOCTORS (1937) - Excellent short with the boys finding jobs as Brighto salesmen, but mistaking the medicine for polish. The chase scene in the hospital is a highlight, and the ending is hilarious.

GOOFS AND SADDLES (1937) is one of the few Stooge westerns that I like. In this one, the boys are calvalry men assigned to take on cattle rustlers and gangster Longhorn Pete. A fast-paced short, with great scenes.

THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS (1939) is another great short, which casts the Stooges as tailors on a ship, and Curly pretends to be Admiral Taylor (and Moe and Larry his assistants) at a local party, and the boys end up being tricked into helping a gang steal a submarine. The ending is hilarious.

I give this 4 1/2 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Stooge Slapstick, March 24, 2005

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Three Stooges: Dizzy Doctors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Columbia's Three Stooges compilations have been a mixed bag. However, this particular tape is excellent, with a trio of vintage shorts. "Dizzy Doctors" (1937) remains the best of the lot - a fast-paced romp featuring Moe, Larry and Curly as "three of the best salesmen who ever saled." The remaining two-reelers - "Goofs and Saddles" (1937) and "Three Little Sew and Sews" (1938) - are slapstick gems in the classic Stooge tradition. Good print quality throughout.