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Released May 30, 1936
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
16.5 min. (Short Subject)

Gail Tempest stands accused of murdering Kirk Robbin, the owner of the Black Bottom Cafe, and it's up to the defense's three main witnesses - Howard, Fine and Howard - musicians at the club who offer to give witness to her innocence and help clear her name by demonstrating the dance number in front of the jury ... Who killed Kirk Robbin?

Curly's courtroom testimony was taken from Buster Keaton's SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK (1931), directed by Jules White and Zion Meyers.

The Stooges' musical courtroom performance is "Push 'Em Up," by Howard Jackson; see The Three Stooges Journal # 89 (Spring 1999).

'Vici Kid' was a brand of leather popular in 1920/1930s shoe fashion. Curly's supposed ad-lib (it is not in the script), "Oh, vici kid," is apparently a reference to James C. Morton's toupee, comparing it to a patch of leather.

The publicity still shown here has Moe playing the bass fiddle, but in the actual film, Curly played it. Moe held a baton and played a mouth harmonica, which Curly made him accidentally swallow when he said, "That was sure HOT Moe!" and slapped him on the back.

Costar Suzanne Kaaren ('Gail Tempest') was a guest of the 1991 Three Stooges Convention in Philadelphia. See The Three Stooges Journal # 59 (Fall 1991).

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Harry Semels
District Attorney

Suzanne Kaaren
Gail Tempest

Bud Jamison
Defense Attorney

Eddie Laughton
Co-Counsel

James C. Morton
Court clerk

Johnny Kascier
Court recorder

Beatrice Curtis
Court recorder

Alice Belcher
Flirting juror

Harry Seiden
Gallery spectator

Solomon Horwitz
Gallery spectator

Lew Davis
Gallery spectator

Bobby Burns
Gallery spectator

Sam Lufkin
Gallery spectator

Bobby Barber
Gallery spectator

Arthur Thalasso
Tall man in hallway

Harry Keatan
Man in hallway

Ed Mull
Man in hallway

Nick Baskovitch
Man in hallway


Jules White
Producer

Jack White
Director

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

Benjamin Kline
Photography

William A. Lyon
Film Editor



















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