The Hot Scots

Infobox Film
name = The Hot Scots


caption =
director = Edward Bernds
writer = Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Christine McIntyre
Herbert Evans
George Pembroke
Ted Lorch
cinematography = Allen G. Siegler |
editing = Henry DeMond
producer = Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US July 8, 1948
runtime = 17' 16"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:139594
imdb_id = 0040451
preceded_by = "Fiddlers Three"
followed_by = "Heavenly Daze"

"The Hot Scots" is the 108th 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 wannabe detectives who inadvertently get their chance to crack a case in Scotland. Dressed in kilts and talking in phony Scotch accents, the Stooges (as McMoe, McLarry, and McShemp) are given the task of guarding the prized possessions of the castle's owner (Herbert Evans). The castle staff are actually ransacking the castle while the boys sleep there, though they eventually get the baddies.

Notes

*Like "Squareheads of the Round Table" and "Fiddlers Three", "The Hot Scots" was filmed on the existing set of the feature film "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest".
*"The Hot Scots" was reworked in 1954 as "Scotched in Scotland", using ample stock footage.
*"Brigadoon" opened on Broadway on 13 March 1947 for 581 performances

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).