Movie

Flagpole Jitters (1956)

• April 5, 1956
• 16m

• Comedy

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

Overview

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.

Director

Jules White

Writers

Felix Adler, Jack White

Starring

Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard