Dopey Dicks (1950)

Directed by

Edward Bernds

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

15 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman asks for help at a detective agency but gets kidnapped. The janitors who work there try to rescue her. They have to deal with a mad scientist and his robots.

comedicfast-pacedslapsticksillyparodicchaoticzanylighthearted

What happens

Dopey Dicks is a 1950 detective film short subject directed by Edward Bernds starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 122nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. In the film, a young woman enters a private investigator's office and asks for help. The investigator is absent, but the office's janitors agree to help her. The woman is kidnapped shortly after. The janitors attempt to rescue the damsel in distress, but they have to face a mad scientist and his army of robots. The film parodies the Sam Spade stories by Dashiell Hammett. The unseen detective who the Stooges effectively replace is called "Sam Shovel". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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