The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
Acting
Shemp's final filmed performance, stitched together posthumously.
Production
Recycled footage from 1949's Fuelin' Around, budget king Jules White.
Director
Jules White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shemp Howard died in 1955; this 'new' 1956 short was cobbled from unused 1949 footage, making it a posthumous performance.
The fictional 'Anemia' mocks Soviet Bloc nations with lazy wordplay—peak 1950s American comedy xenophobia, barely disguised.
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