Flagpole Jitters

IMDb link: 0049214
IMDb rating: 6.8 (318 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Short
Director: Jules White
Cast: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, David Bond and others

Release date: 5 Apr 1956
Release year: 1956
Runtime: 16 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: slapstick comedy, actress shares first name with character, theatre janitor, show business, hypnotist, hypnotism, deception, jewelry store, cigarette smoking, gangster

Plot:

The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is in a wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.

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