Saved by the Belle

Infobox Film
name = Saved by the Belle


caption =
director = Charley Chase
writer = Searle Kramer
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
LeRoy Mason
Carmen LaRoux
Gino Corrado
Vernon Dent
Manuel París
Al Thompson
cinematography = Allen G. Siegler |
editing = Art Seid
producer = Charley Chase
Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US June 30, 1939
runtime = 17' 22"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:142248
imdb_id = 0031897
preceded_by = "Yes, We Have No Bonanza"
followed_by = "Calling All Curs"

"Saved by the Belle" is the 40th 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 traveling salesmen in the South American country of Valeska. The lazy town is only slightly stirred awake by its frequent earthquakes, though there is a quiet revolution on the horizon. The revolutionary leader (Gino Corrado) also happens to run the hotel where the Stooges are staying, and he decides to close the place down. When the trio cannot pay their bill, they are in jail. During their stay, the Stooge befriend Señorita Rita (Carmen LaRoux), another member of the revolutionaries, and she helps the Stooges escape.

Notes

*This was the final Three Stooges short to be directed by veteran comedian Charley Chase. Chase died of a heart attack on June 20, 1940.
*The title is an obvious play on the boxing expression, "saved by the bell." [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 153; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]

References

Further reading

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