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Columbia Shorts 1955

165. HOT ICE

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Rl. Oct. 6 / Prod. No. 4233 / 161/2 m / p d Jules White / st Elwood Ullman / scr Jack White / ad Willard Sheldon / ph Fred Jackman / e Tony DeMarco / a Cary Odell / C: Kenneth MacDonald (Dapper Dan), Christine McIntyre (Bee, in stock footage), Charles C. Wilson (Inspector McCormick, in stock footage), Lester Allen (Runty), Barbara Bartay (Girl in Cafe), Bud Fine (Thug in Bar) and Blackie Whiteford (Cauliflower-eared Thug)

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:

- In a new scene the boys are shown searching for the Punjab Diamond in a curvy blonde's pocketbook, only to find a blackjack, a bottle of nitroglycerin, two sticks of dynomite, a hatchet and a crowbar instead.

 

FN: A reworking of Crime on Their Hands (12/9/48), using stock footage. Scotland Yard scenes from Hot Scots (7/8/48). In new segments, director Jules White casts a double for "Muscles." The search through the dresser drawers gag is a revision of their file cabinet gag.