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Released
1938 · FILM

Violent Is the Word for Curly

THEY'RE CRACKED IN THE CRANIUM...ON A CUCKOO CAMPUS!

Directed by
Runtime
18 min
Comedy

Synopsis

The Stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The Stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew," a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken for the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the Stooges try to convince a rich woman, the school's benefactor, that an athletics program is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

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Edited by Art SeidShot by Lucien Ballard

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