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Released
1948 · FILM

Crime on Their Hands

The Stooges are furniture upholsterers seeking to be reporters. They investigate a diamond theft and end up solving the case.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
18 min
Comedy

Synopsis

The Stooges work as janitors at a newspaper office. After an anonymous caller reports the theft of a famous diamond, the trio decide to take on the role of reporters and track down the criminals. They successfully locate the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, which had been concealed in a bowl of candy. The criminals attempt to extract the diamond from him, but the Stooges thwart their efforts with the assistance of a friendly gorilla.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Henry DemondShot by Henry Freulich

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