🎬 Cine World |The Three Stooges | Malice in the Palace 1949 | 2021

🎬 Cine World |The Three Stooges | Malice in the Palace 1949 | 2021

Malice in the Palace is a 1949 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 117th 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 running the Cafe Casbah Bah (a Middle Eastern restaurant) and attempting to prepare a meal for customers Hassan Ben Sober (Vernon Dent) and Ginna Rumma (George J. Lewis). The meal turns out disastrous: their spaghetti dinner is spilled all over the customers' faces, so the stooges offer them a replacement meal: rabbit and hot dogs. Because a stray cat and dog make noises at inopportune times while Larry prepares the meal, Larry's meal appears to be actual dog and cat meat, which brings Moe and Shemp great grief when ordered to eat it by their customers.

These two customers are thieves intent on robbing the tomb of King Rootintootin, which contains a priceless diamond. Because of their fear of a curse on the diamond, they decide they need three stooges to carry out the deed; the bumbling Moe, Larry and Shemp prove to be perfect for the job. Before ben Sober and Rumma can reveal their scheme, they discover that the Emir of Shmow (Johnny Kascier) has already gotten his hands on the diamond. The two plotters start wailing and, when ben Sober reveals his actual career as a doorman (and not the royalty Moe thinks he is), he and his accomplice are thrown out of the restaurant. The Stooges then attempt to steal the diamond back from the Emir, since it is government property and would likely fetch a large reward.

The Stooges arrive at the Emir's palace dressed as Santa Claus. They then manage to acquire the diamond and make a quick exit, but not before dealing with a burly guard (Everett Brown).

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🔴 CAST

🔰 CREDITED
✔Moe Howard as Moe
✔Larry Fine as Larry
✔Shemp Howard as Shemp
✔Vernon Dent as Hassan Ben Sober
✔George J. Lewis as Ghinna Rumma
✔Frank Lackteen as Haffa Dalla

🔰 UNCREDITED
✔Joe Palma as Palace sentry
✔Bert Young as Palace sentry (stock footage from Wee Wee Monsieur)
✔Everett Brown as Nubian guard
✔Johnny Kascier as Emir of Shmow
✔Curly Howard as Chef (scene deleted)