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Playing the Ponies is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Charles Lamont released in USA on 15 october 1937 with Moe Howard
Playing the Ponies (1937)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 october 1937
Directed by Charles Lamont
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Rating74%
Playing the Ponies is the 26th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
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The Stooges operate a failing restaurant and are plenty sick of it. Two men (Nick Copeland, Lew Davis) walk in and order food as they look over a racing form. One man laments the state in which his horse, Thunderbolt, is in, claiming that he is "all run out" and that he wants to dump him off on some unsuspecting sap. This works in his favor when Larry opens a newspaper and reads a story on a horse named Mad Cap who won a race worth $10,000 ($164 051 today). The Stooges then decide to sell their restaurant to Thunderbolt's owners and get into the horse racing industry.Actors
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