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Released: May 28, 1943
Columbia Short Subject
Length: 17.8 min.

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The Stooges are merchant sailors whose ship is sunk by a Nazi sub. They managed to sneak on board a German freighter, and manage to knock out and capture all of the crew. They then disguise themselves as Hitler, Goering and Gobbels to fool the ship's officers.

Behind-the-scenes, silent, color footage was discovered in early 2007, and premiered in The Stoogeum theater at the April 2007 Fan Club Meeting. An alternate camera angle of the Stooges fighting the Nazi sailors, and off-camera clips of the boys, Jules White, Bud Jamison and Vernon Dent were captured on private 16mm film. See The Three Stooges Journal #s 122 (Summer 2007) and 123 (Fall 2007) for more information.

In 1941, a very different, pre-war version of this film was scripted and then rejected by the Columbia front office as an offense to the Navy. That earlier script is reviewed in The Three Stooges Journal #s 131 (Fall 2009) - 132 (Winter 2009).

Al Thompson in a dual role... first, he appears as one of the German sailors, and again later as one of the German officers.

Production Notes
Working Title(s):	A Sailor's Mess
Prod. No.:	522

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