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Idle Roomers

  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 17m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Eddie Laughton, and Christine McIntyre in Idle Roomers (1944)
SlapstickComedyShort

The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing mu... Read allThe stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones ... Read allThe stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them... Read all

  • Director
    • Del Lord
  • Writers
    • Del Lord
    • Elwood Ullman
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Curly Howard
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    569
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writers
      • Del Lord
      • Elwood Ullman
    • Stars
      • Moe Howard
      • Larry Fine
      • Curly Howard
    • 13User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Moe
    • (as Moe)
    Larry Fine
    Larry Fine
    • Larry
    • (as Larry)
    Curly Howard
    Curly Howard
    • Curly
    • (as Curly)
    Duke York
    Duke York
    • Lupe the Wolf Man
    Christine McIntyre
    Christine McIntyre
    • Mrs. Leander
    Vernon Dent
    Vernon Dent
    • Mr. Leander
    Joanne Frank
    • Hazel
    • (uncredited)
    Esther Howard
    Esther Howard
    • Hazel's Roommate
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Laughton
    • Desk Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Victor Travis
    • Man in Lobby
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Del Lord
    • Writers
      • Del Lord
      • Elwood Ullman
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    8SnoopyStyle

    solid all around

    Larry, Curly, and Moe are bumbling bellboys at the Hotel Snazzy-Plaza. A guest has brought Lupe - The Wolf Man which goes crazy when it hears music. It's solid random Stooges fun early on and then they add in a wolf man. "Did you lock the door?" is my favorite low key joke. The elevator is actually pretty good and it allows the short end. This is solid all around.
    8springfieldrental

    Christine McIntyre's First Major Role in a Stooges Flick

    The Three Stooges, in July 1944 "Idle Roomers," finds the trio as hotel bellhops. The episode is famous for introducing actress Christine McIntyre to the Stooges' acting troupe. This was the blonde Nogales, Arizona native's first of nearly two dozen Stooges' movie appearances through the mid-1950s. McIntyre graduated from the Chicago Musical College, excelling in vocal studies, which opened the doors to her movie career in 1937. She sang in several movies before moving on to low-budget Westerns. Signing a ten-year contract with Columbia Pictures, McIntyre dove completely into the Stooges world (she did briefly appear as an extra in the Stooges' 1943 "They Stooge to Conga.") In her first big role for the Stooges, McIntyre plays a hotel guest whom the three bellhops battle over to give her the best service possible. Her husband (Vernon Dent) secretly has delivered to the hotel Lupe the Wolf Man (Duke York), who escapes from his hidden cage while the Stooges are cleaning the room. Mayhem ensues, including a hilarious sequence first introduced in the Marx Brothers' 1930 "Duck Soup." Curly thinks he's looking at himself in the mirror, when it's actually Lupe mimicking his every move on the other side of the broken mirror. The three eventually find themselves in an elevator with Lupe, a sequence copied from Buster Keaton's 1921 'The Goat.'
    thermal54

    Very funny Stooges effort

    This was made right before Curly's health started to fail.

    There are several very good moments:

    *The "flying" radio. *Curly blowing on a trombone, trying to soothe the beast, only to make it angrier. An entire band sound comes out of the horn. *The wolfman hurling the trombone at Curly. The instrument gets bent around Curly's head from the impact. *Curly and Moe hiding from the wolfman, then getting spooked by some little lap dog. *Curly and the wolfman at the broken mirror. *The Stooges and Lupe flying out of the elevator shaft at the movies' climax.

    Overall, typical solid effort from Del Lord and the boys.

    Seven out of ten.
    8abbazabakyleman-98834

    The Three Stooges Meet the Wolf Man

    Another wonderful scare comedy from the creative mind of Del Lord. The Stooges are bell-hops who spend most of the short's run time evading a wolf-man terrorizing the hotel. Plenty of visual gags and a funny script.
    jeremy-44

    It Is A Funny Three Stooges Short!!

    Hi I'm 13 years old. I'm a big fan of the Three Stooges short movie and the big Stooges movies!! Idle Roomers is about this guy brings this wolfman in like a traveling case and puts it in the basement or in the room! and it gets loose in the hotel! and causes the three stooges Moe, Larry, Curly, Trouble! Very Good Three Stooges Short Film!! Have The Short On Video!!

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    • Trivia
      Debut of Christine McIntyre in a Stooges short, although she had a bit part on "They Stooge to Conga" (1943).
    • Goofs
      When the wolf man bends the bars to escape his cage, two of them immediately spring back up.
    • Quotes

      Hazel's roommate: Wolf! Wolf! Ahhhhhh!

      Curly: Who, me? I resemble that remark.

      Moe: I told you your face scares people. Why don't you throw it away?

      [looks behind him and sees Lupe the Wolf Man]

      Moe: Yaaaa... aaaa... aaaa!

      [runs off]

      Curly: [mockingly] Yaaaaaa... Hey lady. I ain't that ugly. Or am I?

      [Curly goes to the mirror and sees Lupe in broken mirror frame]

      Curly: Naaaaaaaa! Oh no! I think you got something there, I just scared myself!

      Curly: [looks again, feels his chin and Lupe does the same thing] I need a shave but I don't feel any whiskers.

      [smiles, Lupe does the same thing]

      Curly: Hey lady, I'm losing my teeth. I think I got pyarhea.

      [feels his head. Lupe does the same thing]

      Curly: That can't be me. That looking glass is doity.

      [puts his hand to the broken mirror frame and Lupe touches hands with him and both hands move in a circle. Then Curly blows into the frame and Lupe roars and leans out of the broken frame. Curly runs off]

    • Connections
      Referenced in Capitaine Planète: Who's Running the Show? (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Frederic March
      Composed by Howard Jackson and Raffaello Penso

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 15, 1944 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • YouTube - Video
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Three Stooges Meet the Wolf Man
    • Production company
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 17m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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