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Columbia
Shorts 1941
57.
AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE
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Aug. 22 / Prod. No. 488 / 18
m / p Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
/ d Del Lord /
st scr Lloyd A. French / ph
Phillip Tannura / e
Burton Kramer / C: Vernon Dent (Poindexter
Lawrence), Bud Jamison (Baker), Gino Corrado (French Chef), Bess Flowers
(Mrs. Lawrence), and Symona Boniface (Party Guest)
SYN:
Reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy's
Music Box. The Stooges are three clumsy ice delivery men who
are having a whale of a time trying to deliver ice up a lengthy flight
of stairs. Thanks to Curly, they have a brainstorm to bring the icebox
down to the ice, and disaster occurs when they stop about halfway
up the stairs to take a breather and the icebox gets away. Mr. Lawrence,
a nearby neighbor is flattened while trying to safely get home with
his freshly baked birthday cake. The usual Stoogelike antics cause
Mrs. Lawrence's cook and maid to quit right before her husband's big
birthday bash. The Stooges, however, decide to make amends by helping
Mrs. Lawrence out of a jam. They offer to help prepare for the big
party, unaware that Mr. Lawrence is the same gent that they injured
earlier with a runaway icebox. While in the process of cooking the
main entree, Larry messes up the cake by deflating it with a pin.
In an attempt to rectify the blunder, he re-inflates the cake with
a gas hose from the oven. When poor ol' Mr. Lawrence blows out his
candles, the cake explodes, plastering him and his guests with cake
and frosting. He quickly remembers where he's seen these goofy characters
and the chase begins. The Stooges end up making a quick getaway down
the same steep concrete stairway that invited their disaster in the
beginning of the short.
Quick
Hits:
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Curly's dance, with a spring stuck
to the seat of his pants, is a highlight, which was originally used
in Hoi Polloi (1935). It was later repeated by Curly Joe
DeRita in the Stooges feature film Have Rocket, Will Travel
(1959).
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It has recently been discovered by
Jim Pauley from Philadelphia that the famous stairs shown in the
beginning and at the ending of this short are still in existence
in Los Angeles today, some 60 years later.
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ABOUT THIS FAMOUS THREE STOOGES LANDMARK
The
"An Ache in Every Stake" Stairway
FN:
Partially
reworked later as Listen, Judge (3/6/52). The sequence of carrying ice
upstairs and tangling with a man was also used in Ice Cold Cocos
(1926), with Billy Bevan, as directed by Del Lord.
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