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Ants in the Pantry

  • 19361936
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Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Ants in the Pantry (1936)
ShortComedy
The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin... Read allThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudev... Read allThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
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    • Jack White
    • Al Giebler(story and screen play)
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Curly Howard
    • Jack White
    • Al Giebler(story and screen play)
  • Stars
    • Moe Howard
    • Larry Fine
    • Curly Howard
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    • 9User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Ants in the Pantry (1936)
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    Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in Ants in the Pantry (1936)

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    Moe Howard
    Moe Howard
    • Moe
    • (as Moe)
    Larry Fine
    Larry Fine
    • Larry
    • (as Larry)
    Curly Howard
    Curly Howard
    • Curly
    • (as Curley)
    Clara Kimball Young
    Clara Kimball Young
    • Mrs. Beulah Burlap
    Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard
    • Lord Stoke Pogis
    Lynton Brent
    Lynton Brent
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Bobby Burns
    Bobby Burns
    • Party Guest With Mouse Down Back
    • (uncredited)
    Phyllis Crane
    Phyllis Crane
    • Debutante with Mouse
    • (uncredited)
    Lew Davis
    • Guest in Riding Gear w
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Charles Dorety
    Charles Dorety
    • Workman With Ladder
    • (uncredited)
    Idalyn Dupre
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Harrison Greene
    • A. Mouser
    • (uncredited)
    Althea Henley
    Althea Henley
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Bud Jamison
    Bud Jamison
    • Prof. Repulso
    • (uncredited)
    Isabel La Mal
    Isabel La Mal
    • Clara
    • (uncredited)
    Eddie Laughton
    • Guest in Suit w
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Helen Martinez
    • Maid
    • (uncredited)
    James C. Morton
    James C. Morton
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    • …
      • Jack White
      • Al Giebler(story and screen play)
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    • Trivia
      Clara Kimball Young began making movies at the Vitagraph studios in Brooklyn in 1909. At about the same time, one of the neighborhood boys, named Moses Harry Horwitz, began hanging around the studio where he would perform errands. That boy later went by the stage name Moe Howard.
    • Goofs
      It's the larvae of moths that eat fabric, not the adult moths so Moe releasing moths into the wardrobe would not have caused the damage to the clothes inside. Even if the moths laid eggs, the damage would not have been caused so quickly.
    • Quotes

      A. Mouser: Where are those three loafers?

      Mouser's secretary: They're in there, talking politics.

      A. Mouser: Politics?

      Mouser's secretary: Yeah, I just heard one of them say, "Let's have a New Deal."

    • Connections
      Featured in Breaking Bad: Hazard Pay (2012)

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    ANTS IN THE PANTRY (Jack White, 1936) **1/2
    This pretty good Three Stooges short has them as pest exterminators under threat of losing their job if they do not "drum up" business; to this end, they infest a house in a posh quarter with mice and all kinds of bugs – so that they can then offer their services to rid the upper-class owners of the 'problem'! While the central idea could hardly fail to be entertaining (given also that the landlady's throwing a party and doesn't want her snobbish guests to become aware of the unhealthy environment inside her house), having watched a number of these Stooges shorts, it's becoming increasingly evident that not only the boys' routines are repeated from one film to the next but even the backdrops against which they're set! That said, it's a likable enough vehicle – with, thankfully, a restrained Curley…and an especially cute scene in which a bagful of kittens is hidden inside a piano, which starts playing 'by itself' when a celebrated performer sits down to give a recital! By the way, director White used the pseudonym Preston Black for this one (and a few more Stooges titles from the first Columbia set).
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      • February 6, 1936 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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