Rl.
Dec. 9 / Prod. No. 4111 / 171/2
m / p Hugh McCollum
/ d Edward Bernds /
st scr Elwood Ullman
/ ph Henry
Freulich / e Henry DeMond / a
Charles Clague / C: Kenneth MacDonald
(Dapper), Christine McIntyre (Bee), Charles C. Wilson (J.L. Cameron),
Lester Allen (Runty) and Frank Lackteen (Muscles)
SYN:
Dapper and his gang have stolen
the priceless Punjab Diamond. Runty, one of Dapper's henchmen, defects
when Dapper decides on peddling the jewel. Therefore, Runty blows
the news of Dapper's plan to the Daily Gazette's janitors, Moe, Larry
and Shemp, mistaking them for reporters. The Stooges and their gumshoe
instincts track Dapper to his hideout, where Shemp mistakes the diamond
for a breath mint and swallows the giant rock. Dapper, an impatient
sort, decides to perform immediate stomach surgery - the kind without
anesthetic- on Shemp to extract the diamond. With Dapper clutching
an unsterilzed knife and Shemp's last breath drawing near, a gorilla
bursts into the room, observes the injustice about to transpire, and
fixes Dan the way a criminal justice system should have long before.
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that former boxer Cy Schindell
appeared briefly in features under the name Al Seymour?
FN:
Reworked as Hot Ice (10/6/55), using stock footage. Newspaper
office footage reused in Commotion on the Ocean (11/8/56).
