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Columbia Shorts 1956

172. HOT STUFF

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Rl. Sep. 6 / Prod. No. 4245 / 16 m / p d Jules White / st Elwood Ullman / scr Felix Adler / ad Willard Sheldon / ph Irving Lippman / e Harold White / a Ross Bellah / C: Jacques O'Mahoney (Guard of the Cell), Emil Sitka (Professor Sneed), Christine McIntyre (Hazel, Sneed's Daughter) (all in stock), Evelyn Lovequist (Uranian Female Officer), Connie Cezan (Ava, Uranian Female Officer), Andre Pola (Kronk, Anemia Spy), Vernon Dent (General), Harold Brauer (Guard) (both in stock) and Phil Van Zandt (Capt. Rork)

SYN: Uranian undercover agents Moe, Larry and Shemp are seized by Anemian spies mistaking Larry for Professor Sneed, the inventor of a super-power rocket fuel, and Moe and Larry for his assistants. The spies transport the trio to the state of Anemia, where they are forced to try and recreate the rocket fuel formula. They create a formula all-right, but it's not rocket fuel. More like sulphuric acid. They use the formula to burn a hole in the wooden floor creating an opening to the jail cell below where they are able to free the real professor and his daughter. They make a run for the exits and jump in a getaway vehicle that happens to be out of gas. They get really lucky, however, when they realize that their "psuedo rocket fuel" acutally powers vehicles too.

Quick Hits:

- Did you know that Hot Stuff was actually filmed after Shemp's death? New scenes were: The Stooges, wearing beards, enter the Uranian Department of the Inferior. A pretty girl passes by, so Moe orders: "Shemp" - Joe Palma - "follow her, she may be a spy!" Palma utters, "Right," and skips off after here while Moe and Larry engage in a separate scene with two female Uranian officers. Later, in the laboratory, Palma tries to imitate Shemp's famous tagline, "Heep-heep-heep!"

 

WT: They Gassed Wrong (scripted on Dec. 12, 1955) / FN: A reworking of Fuelin' Around (7/7/49), using stock foogage.