SYN:
The Stooges come out of a bar
deflated at the amount of trouble it is to find a cold bottle of beer
around town due to the prohibition. Rather than continue on a wild
goose chase, Curly suggests that they produce their own beer. Their
first customer is a police officer and the Stooges are pinched. Curly
refused the deprivation of his suds and sneaks a whole keg into the
county jail with him under his coat. While posing for a photograph,
the hot lights cause the barrel to explode, sending terrential rains
of suds down on everyone. The Stooges are then sent to prison for
their wrong-doings. They plan a crafty escape (stock footage from
In the Sweet Pie and Pie 1941). Later in the prison recreation
room, the boys have a run-in with the warden and are sent to the rock
pile. Their orders to bust rocks are temporarily postponed when a
guard orders them to repaint the prison walls (footage from So
Long Mr. Chumps 1941). Instead, the boys paint their prison suits
to look like guard uniforms and dash for the front gate to be captured
(new footage). Finally, the Stooges wind up on their favorite rock
pile again "Making little ones out of big ones" (again stock
footage from So Long Mr. Chumps). Then, almost half a century
later, the Stooges, sporting long, gray beards, are released from
prison. Curly's first request: a nice cold bottle of beer! Moe and
Larry angrily throw Curly back in jail theirselves.
Quick
Hits:
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Many of the films prison scenes were from earlier shorts In the
Sweet Pie and Pie and So Long Mr. Chumps, both shot in
1941. You can see an obvious desparity in the different time periods
in Curly's abilities.
