Rl.
Jan. 8 / Prod. No. 4103 / 17
m / p Hugh McCollum
/ d Del Lord /
st scr Del Lord
and Elwood Ullman / ad Bill O' Connor /
ph Allen Siegler / e
Henry DeMond/ a Charles
Clague / C: Christine McIntyre (Gladys Harmon), Kenneth
MacDonald (Lefty Loomis), Frank Lackteen (Red Watkins), Duke York (Angel),
Harold Breen (Moe's Stand-In), Joe Murphy (Shemp's Stand-In), B. Edney
(Larry's Stand-In), Vernon Dent (Capt. Mullins) and Stanley Blystone
(Customer)
SYN:
Cutthroat armored car robber Lefty
Loomis has pulled a quick one, but it's the Stooges who are rounded
up for questioning. While strapped to a lie detector, the police are
unable to determine anything more than the fact that Larry has been
to jail and that Shemp stole a quarter from Moe's shoe. When Gladys
Harmon, owner of the Elite Cafe' vouches for them, the Stooges are
freed and go to work for Gladys. When Gladys speaks of her plans to
sell the mansion she owns, the Stooges decide they better go investigate
the joint to make sure that Gladys' best interest was considered in
the offer. While inspecting the house, the Stooges stumble upon Lefty
Loomis and his hideous hatchet-man Angel, an ungodly creature, who
has been ordered to use his shiny cleaver to dispose of the Stooges.
Shemp, however, shows Loomis and his thugs with expertly aimed barrels
of flour (and a lot of bravado) until the police arrive.
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that Duke York, who plays
Angel, was a regular "Lon Chaney" in Stooges films, often
appearing as creatures more animal than man?
SD:
(Known Dates T 3/25 and W 3/26/47). Shot at the
Columbia Ranch on Stage X. / FN: Reworked as Of Cash
and Hash (2/3/55). Restaurant gags (e.g., preparing chicken soup)
borrowed from Playing the Ponies (10/15/37). Clam soup gag is
a revision of the timework oyster stew gag. Plot and other similar gags
are found in Taxi Spooks (1928) with Jack Cooper, directed by
Del Lord and written by Lord and Ewart Adamson.
