Booty and the Beast

Booty and the Beast

Infobox Film
name = Booty and the Beast


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Felix Adler
Jack White
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Kenneth MacDonald
Vernon Dent
Heinie Conklin
Dudley Dickerson
Curly Howard
cinematography =
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US March 5, 1953
runtime = 15' 55"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:146924
imdb_id = 0045571
preceded_by = "Up in Daisy's Penthouse"
followed_by = "Loose Loot"

"Booty and the Beast" is the 145th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges inadvertently aid a safe-cracker (Kenneth MacDonald), who flees to Las Vegas with the stolen "booty." Realizing their error, the trio hop the train to Vegas to catch up with the thief, though not before accidentally freeing a lion from the baggage car. Eventually, the boys capture the nameless crook and retrieve the stolen money from him.

Notes

*The second half of "Booty and the Beast" consists of footage recycled from "Hold That Lion!".
*The title of the film is a parody of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast".
*In the middle of shooting this film they found out that former stooge Curly had died. Ironically, the footage from Hold That Lion that was used in this short included Curly's cameo.

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).


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