Dunked in the Deep

Dunked in the Deep
Directed by	Jules White
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Gene Roth
Cinematography	Vincent J. Farrar
Editing by	Edwin H. Bryant
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	November 3, 1949 (U.S.)
Running time	16' 46"
Country	United States
Language	English

Dunked in the Deep is the 119th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor Mr. Borscht (Gene Roth), a spy for a fictitious USSR-like country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, and sustained by eating salami, they discover that their 'friend' has concealed stolen microfilm in watermelons. After a wild chase, the boys overtake Borscht and recover the microfilm.

Shemp gets some melon in Dunked in the Deep. Gene Roth (far left) looks on.

Notes

• Dunked in the Deep was reworked in 1956 as Commotion on the Ocean using ample stock footage.
• Shemp Howard accidentally cut his hand on the lock when he rushes to the door in an effort to open it.
• Hiding microfilm in watermelons is an allusion to an actual event from the previous year. In 1948, Time Magazine's managing editor Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist spy-turned government informer, accused Alger Hiss of being a member of the Communist Party and a spy for the Soviet Union. In presenting evidence against Hiss, Chambers produced the Pumpkin Papers: four rolls of microfilm of State Department documents, which Chambers had concealed in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm.^[1]

References

1. ^ [|Chambers, Whittaker] (1952). Witness. Random House. pp. 751–755. ISBN 0-89526-571-0. 

External links

• Dunked in the Deep at the Internet Movie Database
• Dunked in the Deep at AllRovi