Dizzy Detectives

Dizzy Detectives
Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jamison Lynton Brent John Tyrrell Dick Jensen
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Edited by	Jerome Thoms
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	February 5, 1943 (1943-02-05) (U.S.)
Running time	18' 32"
Country	United States
Language	English

Dizzy Detectives is the 68th short film starring the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

After an attempt at installing a door with mishaps galore, the boys are recruited by the police chief (Bud Jamison) as police officers. The head of the citizen's league, Mr. Dill (John Tyrrell), warns the police commissioner that he must capture the ape man that is terrorizing the city, or he will have his job.

The boys get a tip that the ape man is burglarizing a particular store and head out to catch him. They patrol the store, with Curly pausing for a while in a rocking chair aside a cat whose tail happens to swing simultaneously with the rocker. The tail gets caught eventually, causing the cat to screech, and Curly to scurry away.

While there, they encounter a live gorilla, and the thugs that are running the racket, including Mr. Dill, who is conspiring to remove the chief so he can be the successor. The gorilla was taken from a circus and not used to this job. The Stooges proceed to beat up the thugs with all manner of fights. After encountering a fake guillotine set, which shocks Larry and Moe, Curly disposes of the gorilla by head butting him. But beforehand, the gorilla drinks a bottle of nitroglycerin the thugs were carrying. This causes the gorilla to explode. At the end, Curly growls at the severed gorilla head he is holding, which growls back at him.

Production notes

The opening carpentry scene was borrowed from 1935's Pardon My Scotch, which includes the footage of Moe breaking three ribs.

Dizzy Detectives was remade — line-by-line — with Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne as Fraidy Cat in 1951; Fraidy Cat was itself remade three years later as Hook A Crook, using ample stock footage.

External links

• Dizzy Detectives at IMDb
• Dizzy Detectives at AllMovie