The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
Practical Effects
Real destruction of a police station set—no CGI needed.
Acting
Shemp's post-heart-attack energy is somehow perfect chaos.
Writing
The name 'Antonio Zucchini Salami Gorgonzola dePizza.'
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of the 1937 short 'Dizzy Detectives' with Curly—Shemp inherited Curly's old scripts after his 1946 stroke.
Shemp had already suffered a minor heart attack by 1953; his frantic, wheezing energy in this short is partly genuine exhaustion.
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