Directed by Raymond McCarey, "Men in Black" is a Three Stooges comedy that is absolutely silly & nonsensical, and I'm not kidding! At the Los Arms Hospital, Drs. Howard, Fine, and Howard (Moe, Larry, and Curly) cause nothing but hijinks as they run around the hospital corridors and confuse the staff & patients with their screwball antics! But not to worry; it's all for the glorious cause of "duty and humanity."
Highlights: The Stooges adopt wacky names for their various surgical instruments; especially funny is when they ask for cotton. The boys repeatedly smash the glass door when they slam it upon running out of the office of superintendent Dr. Graves (Del Henderson). Three times the Stooges rush into a storage room and exit back out 1.) on a bicycle built for three, 2.) on a large horse, and 3.) inside three miniature race cars. Larry sings in Moe's stethoscope, and the boys sing "O Lee O Lay" with a hiccupping nurse (Jeannie Roberts) providing the beat. And finally, how could anyone forget the comically monotonous call on the loudspeaker? ("Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!").
"Men in Black" is the only Stooge short nominated for an Academy Award; it didn't win, but it was still quite prestigious considering that it was only the third Stooge short in a series of 190 for Columbia Pictures. Watch for familiar Stooge supporting players Bud Jamison as a doctor, Little Billy (in drag) as a patient, and especially Billy Gilbert as an insane patient.
Highlights: The Stooges adopt wacky names for their various surgical instruments; especially funny is when they ask for cotton. The boys repeatedly smash the glass door when they slam it upon running out of the office of superintendent Dr. Graves (Del Henderson). Three times the Stooges rush into a storage room and exit back out 1.) on a bicycle built for three, 2.) on a large horse, and 3.) inside three miniature race cars. Larry sings in Moe's stethoscope, and the boys sing "O Lee O Lay" with a hiccupping nurse (Jeannie Roberts) providing the beat. And finally, how could anyone forget the comically monotonous call on the loudspeaker? ("Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!").
"Men in Black" is the only Stooge short nominated for an Academy Award; it didn't win, but it was still quite prestigious considering that it was only the third Stooge short in a series of 190 for Columbia Pictures. Watch for familiar Stooge supporting players Bud Jamison as a doctor, Little Billy (in drag) as a patient, and especially Billy Gilbert as an insane patient.