Loose Loot

Ah yes, the old "Stooge Decline," where the new fangled television sets are killing off the 2-reeler business (if it wasn't dead already) and Jules White has to go "stock footage" crazy.

All that being said, there are a few of these recycled dogs that are average or above that; hell a few might improve on the original. "Loose Loot" comes close to being as classic as "Hold that Lion." It certainly is the best one coming from these waning years of the Shemp trio...

LOOSE LOOT (1953) is not the best remake The Three Stooges have ever made. You can hardly even call this a remake. There's just reused footage from HOLD THAT LION! (1947) in the first five minutes. And the new footage is unusual, because most of it takes place in one room at the theatre. For some odd reason, Shemp isn't his usual funny self in the new footage, he, acts meaner that usual. "That guy must have iron in his bod," Shemp says after he sticks a sword in Slipp's (Kenneth MacDonald) rear end. Overall, an olay remake, but nothing special.

Grade: C

Footage from HOLD THAT LION! was also used in BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953), the previous short.

The only Shemp rehash from this period that's worth watching. Nearly as good as the original "Hold That Lion" which it borrows opening footage from. Great moments include the wild chase down the hallway as the slimey villian I. Slipp(Kenneth McDonald) along with henchmen Tom Kennedy pursue our boys. Then there is Shemp's hilarious carnival barker routine as the boys throw fruit at Slipp who's head has been jammed in a door with a chair. The rest of the remakes from this time period sucked but this is one definitely worth seeing.

When you get a law firm like that on your case, the Three Stooges have nothing to worry about in collecting their inheritance. But there's a scheme afoot to deprive them of an inheritance.

Their uncle has left them a tidy sum of money, but will executor, one Ichabod Slipp has flown the coop with their inheritance. But with Moe, Larry and Shemp on the case right will prevail, after a fashion. The culprit is played by character actor Kenneth MacDonald.

It's a chase on a train to get MacDonald and the boys get themselves tangled up with a zoo lion being shipped God knows where. And their final showdown with MacDonald is classic, all three of them eventually bring him down.

Love the Stooges, but I certainly do love the Dickensian names they give some the supporting characters in their shorts. Ichabad Slipp, indeed.

Unfortunately due to cut coats Columbia remakes some shorts using stock footage from previous shorts, so this episode was mixing, ours friends had received from their Uncle's will, but the regular guest Kenneth MacDonald as the crook Icabod Slipp who pretend to be a lawman tries deceives the Stooges, they realize the manoeuvre and start chase him, one fabulous sequence when they stuck his head on the door, as target they throw many fruits in his Slipp's face, also a slow down sword fight ending up in an useless sword, and the last scene Moe, Larry and Shemp running thru the painting frame, Shemp was priceless in the recycled episode!!

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First watch: 1973 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD-R / Rating: 7.5