Rl.
July 9 / Prod. No. 551 / 151/2
m / p Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
/ d Harry Edwards /
st scr Monty Collins and
Elwood Ullman / ph John
Stumar / e
Paul Borofsky / a Carl Anderson / C:
Chester Conklin (Joe, the Circus Attendant), Heinie Conklin (Louie,
the Attendant), Stanley Blystone (Herman), Bud Jamison (Detective),
and Duke York (Sultan of Abadaba)
SYN:
The Stooges are rewarded with tickets to the circus
for their work as billboard pasters. They choose to try and sell their
tickets for money for food, so they take on the role as scalpers inside
the fairgrounds. It only takes a few minutes for the circus strongarms
to realize that the Stooges are muscling in on their territory and
chase the Stooges off. Curly seeks shelter in the tent of Effie the
bearded lady who mistakes him for her blind date. Curly quickly realizes
that he has no emotions for a woman with more hair than him so he
knocks her out and cuts off her beard. When Herman the circus owner
calls on Effie, to come out and play her part, Curly quickly pastes
the beard on himself and jumps into character. Disaster strikes again
when Curly (Effie's) bonnett gets knocked off revealing his true identity,
and the chase begins. He meets up with Larry and they take shelter
(in a horse costume) and hide with some real mares. This disguise
fails soon after when Joe, the circus attendant, decides its time
to feed the lions. What better lion food than horse meat...right?
Later, the Stooges finally get pinched, and Herman decides to reward
them with one last break; the Sultan of Abadaba need three volunteers
for the human target act. Uh-oh!
Quick
Hits:
-
Although the Three Stooges Scapbook
mentions Moe and Larry in the horse costume, it was actually Curly
and Larry that did this gag.
-
Stanley Blystone, often a foil for the Stooges, played Paulette
Goddard's father in Charles Chaplin's Modern Times (1936).
FN:
Moe and Larry use the horse costume gag again in Horsing Around
(9/12/57).
