Rl.
Sep. 18 / Prod. No. 507 / 151/2
m / p Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
/ d Del Lord /
st scr Felix Adler / C:
Ruth Skinner (Mrs. Blake), Stanley Blystone (Joe), Wheaton Chambers
(Bud), Vernon Dent (Driver of Car), Bud Jamison (Cop), Billy Bletcher
(Voice of Seabasquit), Heinie Conklin and Jack Gardner (Bit Men)
SYN:
The Stooges are up to their old
tricks when they attempt to help out an evicted woman and her child
by betting the little girl's piggy bank money on a race horse. Two
race track con artists somehow fast-talk the boys out of their winnings,
trading the cash in for a broken down mare named Seabasquit (Curly
thinks the horse is talking, but it's really one of the con artists
using ventrioloquism). In an attempt to help get the horse back into
decent physical condition, Curly grabs a pipe and tries
to blow a vitamin down the horse's throat. Curly somehow winds up
swallowing the pill by accident and within seconds, he starts acting
and sounding like a horse himself. When the condition gets out of
control Moe and Larry rush poor Curly to the hospital where he gives
birth to a colt that really does talk!
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that before there was
a Mr. Ed on television, there was a series of films starring Francis
the Talking Mule? This short predated the first Francis film by
seven years.
FN:
The "Press,
Press, Pull" routine first appeared in Three Little Beers
(11/28/35) while Curly's bit involving blowing a vitamin through a pipe
was reprised in Scrambled Brains (7/7/51). Selling old dope sheets
is reused in Las Vegas, the 22nd TV episode of The Abbott and Costello
Show (1952-3).
