The Tooth Will Out is the one-hundred-thirty-fourth short subject from Columbia Pictures starring the Three Stooges.
Plot[]
The Tooth Will Out
After being fired from two jobs for breaking dishes, the Stooges end up being chased into a dental office by the angry Vesuvius restaurant chef with a cleaver. Eventually, the boys study, and graduate from dental school. The dean of the school (Vernon Dent) gives them their first recommendation to go out west far away, and open a practice. The boys open up shop in quiet western town, when their first customer (Slim Gaut) comes in with a mild toothache. Wearing glasses with lenses as thick as soda bottles, Dr. Shemp proceeds to drill the patient's teeth until smoke rises from his mouth. The appointment is abruptly cut short when an irate customer who claims to be the Sheriff (Dick Curtis) enters the office with a serious toothache and threatens Shemp if he does something bad to him just like he did with the other dentists. Feeling nervous, Shemp accidentally picks up the wrong book, entitled The Amateur Carpenter. They first rub sandpaper to his chest, and paste the inside of his hat which they thought it was to "varnish the lid". After discovering it is the wrong book, the boys go back to business seriously. They finally extract the Sheriff's tooth, only to discover it is the wrong one that Shemp pulled and the angry Sheriff responds by drawing his gun and unleashes a hail of bullets on the fleeing Stooges.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard
- Larry Fine
- Shemp Howard
- Vernon Dent, Dean of the dentist school
- Slim Gaut, The Stooge's first customer
- Dick Curtis, the Sheriff as well as the second customer
Notes[]
- This is the last Three Stooges short to feature Dick Curtis.
- Vernon Dent and Margie Liszt both were apperance in each other, the other shorts goes as Pest Man Wins and Income Tax Sappy.