Scotched in Scotland

Infobox Film
name = Scotched in Scotland


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Elwood Ullman
Jack White
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Christine McIntyre
Herbert Evans
George Pembroke
Philip Van Zandt
cinematography = Ray Cory |
editing = Jules White
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US November 4, 1954
runtime = 15' 31"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:148190
imdb_id = 0047460
preceded_by = "Shot in the Frontier"
followed_by = "Fling in the Ring"

"Scotched in Scotland" is the 158th 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 detective school graduates shipped off to 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

*"Scotched in Scotland" is a remake of 1948's "The Hot Scots", using ample recycled footage from the original film.Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 444; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]
*A whistling, howling wind-like sound is added to the soundtrack to give the film a more "spooky" effect. This was not done in "The Hot Scots".

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"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).