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Columbia Shorts 1944

80. IDLE ROOMERS

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Rl. July 16 / Prod. No. 4013 / 161/2 m / p Hugh McCollum / d Del Lord and Elwood Ullman / ph Glen Gano / e Henry Batista / a Charles Clague / C: Christine McIntyre (Mrs. Leander), Duke York (Lupe, the Wolf Man), Vernon Dent (Mr. Leander), Joanne Frank (Hazel) and Esther Howard (Elderly Woman)

SYN: Two vaudeville performers arrive at a hotel where the Stooges are employed as bellboys. They are hiding a very bizarre secret in a giant trunk. They have the one-and-only Wolf Man. He is a spectacle that will make them millions, provided they last that long. Lupe, the Wolf Man freaks out any time he hears music. Curly, delivers the trunk upstairs and when the Leanders run off for errands the Stooges are ordered to clean their room. Curly decides to turn on the "boogie-woogie box" and all hell breaks loose. Lupe loses his cool and breaks out of the trunk and smashes the radio on Curly's head. Curly of course, never saw it coming and when he is finally able to get the radio off his head, he is fuming. Thinking that Moe did it Curly seeks revenge on Moe. Meanwhile, Lupe has escaped into another room occupied by two ladie guests. When petrified guests report seeing a hairy burglar in the hotel, an A.P.B. is put out by Hotel Manager (Eddie Laughton). The Stooges are sent out to find this burglar and rectify the situation immediately. Their frantic search finally ends in the elevator, which is occupied by -who else- Lupe, the Wolf Man. Who sends himself and the Stooges flying through the roof when he causes the elevator to jump out of the shaft sky-high and into the heavens.

Quick Hits:

- DId you know this film marked the debut of the lovely Christine McIntyre. Ms. McIntyre added a much needed touch of class which made for good comic contrast in several of the Stooges shorts of the 40's.