Movies with Philip Van Zandt
Movies found: 25, viewing from 1 to 20
Fiddlers Three
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1948
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
Citizen Kane
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Starring: George Coulouris, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Orson Welles
Directors: Orson Welles
Country: USA
Year: 1941
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."
Mummy's Dummies
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Ralph Dunn, Dee Green, Vernon Dent
Directors: Edward Bernds
Country: USA
Year: 1948
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
Squareheads of the Round Table
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Jock Mahoney, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent
Directors: Edward Bernds
Country: USA
Year: 1948
Set in Arthurian times, the stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
Dopey Dicks
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Stanley Price
Directors: Edward Bernds
Country: USA
Year: 1950
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.
Fuelin' Around
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Emil Sitka, Jock Mahoney, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre
Directors: Edward Bernds
Country: USA
Year: 1949
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
Three Arabian Nuts
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Wesley Bly, Dick Curtis, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Vernon Dent
Directors: Edward Bernds
Country: USA
Year: 1951
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
Spooks!
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Norma Randall
Directors: Jules White
Country: Unknown
Year: 1953
The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.
Musty Musketeers
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Vernon Dent
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
Hot Stuff
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Emil Sitka, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1956
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
Bedlam In Paradise
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Vernon Dent, Sylvia Lewis
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1955
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates.
Scotched In Scotland
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Charles Knight
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Would be detectives, the stooges get a job guarding a Scotch castle while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing the castle of its valuables. Though they do their best to frighten the boys off, the stooges prevail and expose the crooked goings-on.
Knutzy Knights
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Shemp Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Jock Mahoney, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
Outer Space Jitters
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Philip Van Zandt, Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Dan Blocker
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1957
The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to the stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime story to their kids (also played by the stooges) while they wait for the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry.
Fifi Blow Her Top
Genres: Comedy, Short
Starring: Philip Van Zandt, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Christine McIntyre, Joe Besser, Harriette Tarler, Vanda Dupre
Directors: Jules White
Country: USA
Year: 1958
The stooges reminisce about their wartime romances in Europe. After they finish their tales, they discover that Joe's girl Fifi, whom he left behind in Paris, has moved in next door. The only problem is that she's now married, with a very jealous husband. The husband turns out to be a real cad, and when Fifi overhears him tell about his plans to find a new wife, she clobbers him and goes back to Joe.
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Genres: Action, Adventure, War
Starring: Frank Puglia, Joe Sawyer, Philip Van Zandt, Lloyd Corrigan, Otto Kruger, Nancy Kelly, Robert Lowery
Directors: Wilhelm Thiele
Country: USA
Year: 1943
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants and wind up ruining a German's attempt to capture a wild horse. They arrive in an Arab city and rescue a stranded American lady magician, sentenced to be hanged for carrying a secret message to the Sheik. To obtain the plants, Tarzan must fight prehistoric monsters, Nazis, and so on.
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Genres: Action, Adventure, War
Starring: Sig Ruman, Stanley Ridges, Philip Van Zandt, Frances Gifford, Pedro de Cordoba, Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield
Directors: Wilhelm Thiele
Country: USA
Year: 1943
Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. Tarzan, the isolationist, becomes involved after the Nazis shoot at him and capture Boy: "Now Tarzan make war!"
Decoy (1946)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Sheldon Leonard, Herbert Rudley, Robert Armstrong, Philip Van Zandt, Bert Roach, Jean Gillie, Edward Norris
Directors: Jack Bernhard
Country: USA
Year: 1946
Gangster Frank Olins is to die in the gas chamber much to the dismay of his girlfriend Margot Shelby as he is carrying the secret of the location of $400,000 with him. Margot seduces gangster Jim Vincent to get him to engineer the removal of Olins' body from the prison immediately after he dies in the gas chamber. She takes prison doctor Craig away from his nurse/girl friend and gets him to administer an antidote for cyanide gas poisoning. During the removal of Olins' body, the hearse driver is killed by Tommy. The revived Olins gives Margot half of a map showing the money location and Vincent, in a fit of jealousy, kills Olins and takes the ...
The Lady Gambles
Genres: Drama
Starring: Robert Preston, Leif Erickson, Tony Curtis, Philip Van Zandt, Don Beddoe, Barbara Stanwyck, Elliott Sullivan
Directors: Michael Gordon
Country: USA
Year: 1949
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Our Miss Brooks
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Richard Crenna, Don Porter, Philip Van Zandt, Eve Arden, Nick Adams, Joseph Kearns, Gale Gordon
Directors: Al Lewis
Country: USA
Year: 1956
In the 1950s, America adopted Our Miss Brooks as its very own. Emmy winner Eve Arden starred as Connie Brooks in the long-running radio and TV series about a wisecracking high school English teacher. The movie provides all the TV show's charm and laughter plus a dividend for fans: their Miss Brooks is finally locked in the loving arms of the handsome but incredibly bashful biology teacher Philip Boyton (Robert Rockwell). The film also adds a bittersweet edge to the comedy as Connie mends a rift between a student and his neglectful father. High marks go to the supporting cast, especially Gale Gordon as blustery principal Osgood Conklin and Ric...