Dizzy Doctors

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Directed byDel Lord
Screenplay byAl Ray
Story byCharlie Melson
Produced byJules White
Dizzy Doctors
Directed byDel Lord
Screenplay byAl Ray
Story byCharlie Melson
Produced byJules White
Starring
CinematographyBenjamin H. Kline
Edited byCharles Nelson
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 19, 1937 (1937-03-19) (U.S.)
Running time
17:41
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dizzy Doctors is a 1937 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 21st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

The lazy Stooges, roused from their mid-day slumber by the demands of their spouses to seek gainful employment, serendipitously encounter Dr. Bright, the president of a company in need of salesmen for his novel concoction, Brighto. Marketed with the slogan "it makes old bodies new", Brighto is mistakenly perceived by the Stooges as a polish, prompting them to embark on an enthusiastic street-side campaign to showcase its efficacy to potential clients.

Their demonstrations yield calamitous outcomes: Larry rubs Brighto on a policeman's uniform and the fabric disintegrates, Moe damages a passerby's footwear, and the application of Brighto strips the paint from a gentleman's pristine automobile. Fleeing from their angry victims, the Stooges retreat to Dr. Bright's premises and complain to him about the performance of the supposed polish. Dr. Bright rebukes them but, after elucidating that Brighto is intended as a medicine, he grants the Stooges another opportunity to prove their salesmanship. Emboldened by this second chance, the Stooges infiltrate Los Arms Hospital, endeavoring to peddle Brighto to the ailing patients. Their entrepreneurial zeal, however, is met with further misfortune when they are confronted by the superintendent, who recognizes them as the culprits who damaged the paint on his car.

When he gives chase, the Stooges ingeniously manipulate an elevator, dispatching the superintendent to an unintended destination before hastily escaping into the street via a hospital gurney. Their flight ends in a collision and a jump through an open window into their beds, where they promptly resume their interrupted repose.

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