The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Acting
Curly's 'woo-woo-woo' at peak unhinged perfection.
Practical Effects
Real car destruction, zero CGI, 1937 style.
Director
Del Lord
Curly Howard
Curly
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Bobby Burns
Man in Wheelchair (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
Policeman (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Dr. Harry Arms (uncredited)
Charles Dorety
Orderly in Corridor (uncredited)
William Irving
Surgeon (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Shoeshine Victim (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Dr. Arms Older Assistant (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Sleeping Patient (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Del Lord directed over 130 Columbia shorts; this was peak Stooge efficiency—shot in days, funny for decades.
The 'medicine show' con was already nostalgic by 1937, making the Stooges both behind and ahead of their time.
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