🌷 3 Stooges - "Hot Ice" (1955) FULL EPISODE

The Stooges apply for experienced men at Scotland Yard, but wind up as gardeners instead. They stumble across a note about a case involving a stolen diamond, and take the case to prove themselves. While investigating in a dockside saloon dive, Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond, and the crooks plan to cut it out of him. But a gorilla hidden in the saloon, imported from Africa, escapes from his cage and changes the thieves' plans.

Director
Jules White

Moe Howard as Moe
Larry Fine as Larry
Shemp Howard as Shemp
Kenneth MacDonald as Dapper Malone
Christine McIntyre as Bea (stock footage)
Barbara Bartay as Girl in Bar

Hot Ice is a 1955 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 165th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot:
The Stooges are wannabe detectives who inadvertently get their chance to crack a case in Scotland. They manage to stumble on a lead concerning the priceless Punjab diamond being stolen by a crook named Dapper. With dreams of becoming genuine detectives, the trio head for Squid McGuffy's cafe asking for the whereabouts of Dapper. They manage to convince everyone at the restaurant that they are actually police. The Stooges search the handbag of a suspicious looking Moll and find guns, poison, blackjacks, and handcuffs. But no diamond. They apologize for thinking the woman was a crook.

While searching several rooms above the cafe, the Stooges stumble on Dapper's moll, who hastily hides the Punjab diamond in a candy dish. The boys refuse to leave, suspecting Dapper will eventually show his face. While killing time, Shemp starts to flirt with the moll, and manages to swallow the ice along with some mints from the candy dish. The gal nearly has a nervous breakdown but quickly discovers the Stooges are not actually real detectives. She calls in Dapper and his henchman Muscles and frantically try to pry the diamond out of frazzled Shemp.

After all else fails, Dapper decides to cut him open. Moe and Larry are locked in a closet by Muscles while Shemp is tied down on a close by desk-turned-operating table. As luck would have it, there happen to be a bag of tools in the closet, which Moe and Larry use to saw their way out of the closet, and right into a gorilla's cage on the other side of the wall. The gorilla knocks Moe, Larry, Dapper and Muscles cold. The beast, however, befriends Shemp, and helps him cough up the diamond. Moments later, Shemp explains how he managed to swallow the diamond by actually doing so again.