If a Body Meets a Body

1945 · Approved · 18min · Black and White · English

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given ...

IMDb rating - 7.9/10 from 531 users

Genres - Short · Comedy · Horror · Mystery

Director - Jules White

Writer - Jack White(screenplay) · Gilbert Pratt(story)

Stars - Moe Howard · Larry Fine · Curly Howard

Story line - Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven cents. —Mitch Shapiro <mshapiro@a.crl.com>

Release date - August 30, 1945 (United States)

Countries of origin - United States

Also known as - Nearly in the Dough

Production company - Columbia Pictures