Curly Joe Howard

This period is considered to be when the Stooges hit their stride and perfected their craft, when all the elements came together perfectly. When the Stooges get a prizefighter drunk, Curly has not choice but to step in and take his place. The Stooges make pests of themselves at a high society party when a maid mistakenly phones their exterminator company instead of an escort service. Working as tailors on a navy ship puts the Stooges in a pressing...

Disorder in the court: the Stooges get involved in the trial of a fan dancer who is accused of shooting her lover; Malice in the palace: the Stooges try to recover diamond stolen from King Rutin-Tutin's Tomb; Sing a song of six pants: the Stooges try to pay off past due notes to Skin & Flint by capturing a burglar; Brideless groom: Shemp must marry to inherit $500,000. Kook's tour: This rarely seen 1970 film was originally intended to be the pilot...

For true Stooges fans, "Rare Treasures from the Columbia Pictures Vault" offers a rare insider's look at the expansive careers of the entire Three Stooges. This 3-disc set includes two full-length feature films with the original Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) and the three final Stooges (Moe, Larry and "Curly Joe" DeRita) and rare solo comedy shorts featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita as they develop their comedy skills allowing them...

Struggling to make it on television and having been evicted from their apartment, Moe, Larry and Curly Joe find rooms in a gloomy mansion owned by an eccentric scientist, who has invented a rocket wanted by Martians planning to destroy the Earth.

In the mid-1960s, the Three Stooges were enjoying a revival of popularity from regular airings of their classic shorts on television. By this time, however, Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe were getting somewhat long in the tooth, so Moe's son-in-law, cartoonist Norman Mauer, came up with the idea of an animated series based on the Stooges' exploits.

Ventriloquist Paul Winchell introduces some of the original Three Stooges' funniest sequences. Features the Marquis Chimps in a rendition of the Cinderella story.