Flagpole Jitters

The Three Stooges hit a new high in low-down laughs

Flagpole Jitters — Plot

The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to 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.

• Release date
• April 5, 1956
• Runtime
• 16 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Jules White

Flagpole Jitters — Cast

Shemp Howard Shemp Larry Fine Larry Moe Howard Moe David Bond The Great Svengarlic Vernon Dent Insurance Adjustor (archive footage) Mary Ainslee Mary (archive footage)