Rl.
Feb. 7/ Prod. No. 484 / 17
m / p d Jules White / st
scr Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler / ph
Barney McGill / e Mel
Thorsen / C: Vernon Dent (Detective), Robert Williams
(B.O. Davis), Dorothy Appleby (Pomeroy's Girl Friend), Bert Young (Cop
#2), Eddie Laughton (Pomeroy) and Bruce Bennett (Bit Man)
SYN:
The Stooges are street cleaners who find some oil bonds
belonging to B.O. Davis, an ailing millionaire. When they try to return
the bonds, Davis offers the boys $5,000 in return for tracking down
an honest man with executive ability to take over his position. Their
search leads to a sobbing woman who claims that her sweetheart, Percy
Pomeroy, is an honest man in prison by mistake. In order to get Pomeroy
released, the Stooges force the police to arrest them for robbing
the First National Bank, which, coincidentally, was just robbed. Sent
to prison, the trio finally meet up with Pomeroy (Number 41144), their
honest man, who is freed when the police detectives round up their
real criminal, Lone Wolf Louie. The Stooges, however, continue serving
their sentence busting rocks on the rock pile.
Quick
Hits:
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Eddie Laughton (who plays Pomeroy)
appeared oftem with the Stooges, acting as their straight man during
live performances.
WT:
Footage used in Beer Barrel Polecats (1/10/46).
The idea of getting arrested purposefully was also used in Three
Smart Saps (7/30/42) and in The Noose Hangs High, a 1948
feature with Abbott and Costello. Omitted from the final script was
one scene where a street policeman notices the Stooges and Pomeroy's
girl crying. A double-talk routine develops as to why each person is
crying.
