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Director
  
Jules White

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Editor
  
Harold White

Writer
  
Jack White

Language
  
English

Pies and Guys movie poster

Release date
  
June 12, 1958 (1958-06-12)

Genres
  
Short Film, Comedy, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Larry Fine
(Larry),
Joe Besser
(Joe),
Greta Thyssen
(Miss Lulu),
Moe Howard
(Moe)

Three Stooges Films movies
  
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Tagline
  
The Stooges are the subject of a bet over whether heredity or environment molds gentlemen.

Pies and Guys, released by Columbia Pictures in 1958, is the 185th short film starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

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Plot

In the third Stooge adaptation of Pygmalion, the trio are repairmen who make a scene in the presence of two psychologists, Professors Quackenbush (Milton Frome) and Sedletz (Gene Roth). Quackenbush makes a bet with Sedletz that he can turn the boys into gentlemen through environment. Training is slow and painful for the professor, who pulls his hair out in disgust. However, the Stooges do have the opportunity to flirt with the professor's assistant (Greta Thyssen), while learning proper table etiquette. Finally, the Stooges will decide the wager by their behavior at a fancy society party.

Naturally, the party goes awry. Joe greets the Countess Spritzwasser (Harriette Tarler) by kissing her hand, and biting off the diamond in her ring. Realizing this, Moe and Larry take Joe to a secluded area to lecture him, only to find he has swiped a load of silverware.

Joe then grabs a pie from a pastry table, and tries to eat it whole. Moe sees this, swipes the pie, and pushes Joe out of the way. Seeing another guest, Mrs. Smythe-Smythe (Symona Boniface), approaching, Moe tosses the pie straight up—to which it attaches itself to the ceiling. Seeing that he can barely get a sentence out, she sympathetically comments, "young man, you act as if you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head." Moe replies that Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is a psychic and flees, to which the pie comes crashing down on the society matron. This sparks off a massive pie melee that takes no prisoners.

References

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