Loose Loot

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is one of My all time favorite Three Stooges shorts with Shemp and appearing in this one are Kenneth MacDonald, Tom Kennedy, Nanette Bordeaux, Suzanne Ridgeway, and Emil Sitka. Kenneth MacDonald and Tom Kennedy both performed excellently here! The Stooges are great here and the entire short is hilarious! Strongly Recommended!

"Loose Loot" is one of the first Stooges remakes of an earlier short. In this case, it is a remake of their 1947 effort "Hold That Lion." Beginning in 1952, producer Jules White began to remake earlier Stooge shorts and include existing footage in the remakes to save money and production time. In addition, motion picture houses were becoming increasingly reluctant to show short subjects; there was also the competition from television.

Some of the remakes lifted much footage from earlier shorts; more than 3/4 of each release after 1952 included footage from the earlier shorts.

"Loose Loot" includes footage from "Hold That Lion," most notably in the first five minutes. However, most of the remaining footage was shot in 1952. Happily, "Loose Loot" succeeds because of the new footage. This part of the plot takes place at a theatre where the Stooges are tracing the executor of their late uncle's will. Many funny slapstick moments occur in the new footage, which includes veteran actors Kenneth MacDonald and Tom Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy's brother.) Among the funnier moments are the Stooges throwing fruit at MacDonald and the surreal moment when the stooges enter a picture frame.

"Loose Loot" is not to be missed by Shemp fans and Stooges fans in general. Although based on a earlier short and including old footage, "Loose Loot" is funny and interesting in its own way. Stooge fans who tend to stay away from their 1950s remakes should catch this one.

LOOSE LOOT is a latter day Three Stooges short, and it's recommended as a satisfying never-ending assault of physical slapstick and insanity for all fans of the comedy trio! The first half begins with Moe, Larry and Shemp (in re-used older footage from 1947's HOLD THAT LION!) being conned out of their inheritance money by the shifty Ichabod Slip (Kenneth MacDonald), so the Stooges plot to confront the crook at a dance theater to get back their cash in the second half (which is all new 1950's footage matched to flow with the old). This is just nonstop and cartoonish madness from start to finish, as the Stooges mercilessly beat the tar out of MacDonald, who must have been paid well enough to endure such rough but comical abuse! I have always been impressed at the way Columbia managed to synchronize older and newer footage together, and in this case you could never tell unless you had already seen HOLD THAT LION!. *** out of ****

Ah yes, the old "Stooge Decline," where the new fangled television sets are killing off the 2-reeler business (if it wasn't dead already) and Jules White has to go "stock footage" crazy.

All that being said, there are a few of these recycled dogs that are average or above that; hell a few might improve on the original. "Loose Loot" comes close to being as classic as "Hold that Lion." It certainly is the best one coming from these waning years of the Shemp trio...

LOOSE LOOT (1953) is not the best remake The Three Stooges have ever made. You can hardly even call this a remake. There's just reused footage from HOLD THAT LION! (1947) in the first five minutes. And the new footage is unusual, because most of it takes place in one room at the theatre. For some odd reason, Shemp isn't his usual funny self in the new footage, he, acts meaner that usual. "That guy must have iron in his bod," Shemp says after he sticks a sword in Slipp's (Kenneth MacDonald) rear end. Overall, an olay remake, but nothing special.

Grade: C

Footage from HOLD THAT LION! was also used in BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953), the previous short.