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Released
1946 · FILM

Three Little Pirates

Guaranteed to start a riot!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
18 min
Comedy

Synopsis

The Stooges find themselves castaways from a garbage scow, landing on Dead Man's Island, where the inhabitants live in olden times. To escape the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and gain permission to travel to their homeland to retrieve gifts. The governor is successfully deceived, but the trio encounters further trouble in the den of Black Louie, a pirate, where Curly is forced to participate in a knife-throwing contest with Larry as the target. The situation appears dire until a misfired knife severs the rope holding the chandelier, causing it to crash down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to assume control as the island's new ruler.

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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 Paul BorofskyShot by Philip Tannura

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