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SAVED BY THE BELLE |
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Columbia, 1939. Directed by
Charley Chase. Camera:
Allen G. Siegler. With Moe
Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, LeRoy Mason, Carmen Laroux, Gino Corrado,
Vernon Dent, Manuel Paris, Al Thompson. |
Starts with a sign: "Valeska:
A thriving kingdom in the tropics." The boys are tossed out of
a rooming house where they stay while on business with the King
Winter Outfitting Co. Presented with a bill that features a
long beer tab, they think they're getting money from their company,
but receive a telegram that reads, "No passage money until you get
rid of present wardrobe." They bail on the bill and are
imprisoned.
They're drafted to help Rita, a
revolutionary, get a map to the troops. They lose the map
under a couch and mistakenly pull out a rolled calendar that sits
next to the map. The revolutionary leader turns out to be the
hotel owner. The boys almost die on the firing squad but
escape in an ammo truck, which explodes, landing them on the back of
a concave horse in the conclusion of this convoluted short.
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The Three Stooges
An Illustrated History,
by Michael Fleming
Broadway Books 1999
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