Booty and the Beast
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Felix Adler Jack White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Kenneth MacDonald Vernon Dent Heinie Conklin Dudley Dickerson Curly Howard |
| Editing by | Edwin H. Bryant |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 5, 1953 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 15' 55" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Booty and the Beast is the 145th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
[edit] Plot
The Stooges inadvertently aid a safe-cracker (Kenneth MacDonald), who flees to Las Vegas with the stolen "booty." Realizing their error, the trio hop the train to Vegas to catch up with the thief, though not before accidentally freeing a lion from the baggage car. Eventually, the boys capture the nameless crook and retrieve the stolen money from him.
[edit] Notes
- The second half of Booty and the Beast consists of footage recycled from Hold That Lion!, which includes the cameo appearance by Curly Howard, who had died on January 18th, 1952.
- The title of the film is a parody of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
- The scene where Kenneth MacDonald's character comes out of the door right into the Stooges' arms is originally from "Hold That Lion". In the original scene Moe yells "Hey, it's Slipp!", but in this reworking "Slipp!" is replaced with a rather poorly overdubbed "him!".
- All the lines containing the name "Slipp" in Hold That Lion are changed to either "He", "Him" or "That Crook."
- One of only 2 Stooge films to have all 3 Howard Brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp) at the same time. A 3rd cameo was shot for Malice in the Palace but was cut from the finished product.
