The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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Shemp Howard as Shemp
Larry Fine as Larry
Moe Howard as Moe
Kenneth MacDonald as Icabod Slipp
Emil Sitka as Attorney
Dudley Dickerson as Pullman Porter
Curly Howard as Curly - Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin as Train Conductor (uncredited)
Blackie Whiteford as Train Passenger (uncredited)
Victor Travis as Bearded Man (uncredited)
Jules White Producer
Jules White Director
Felix Adler Writer
Charles Clague Art Direction
George F. Kelley Director of Photography
Edwin H. Bryant Editor
United States 17 July 1947
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The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department.
18 October 1945
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean.
28 September 1930
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24 September 1942
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01 January 1956
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
01 August 1959
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges.
15 February 1962
The Three Stooges manage to crash through the time barrier with their slap-happy antics in this classic feature-length comedy.
15 November 1945
The Stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name.
20 June 1946
The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence.
05 February 1943
The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr.
04 December 1941
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree.
07 January 1960
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Hold That Lion!:
All three Howard brothers on screen for the only time!
Hold That Lion! full hd movie trailer.
Hold That Lion! full hd movie trailer.
Here's a super 8 film of the Three Stooges short "Hold That Lion". This was digitized by my friend Mark "Dangerboy" Nelson. He also added the music as well.
Hold That Lion! full hd movie trailer.
Hold That Lion "performed" by Gilbert Girard. Victor CVE-35975-3. Recorded in Camden NJ on August 31 1926. Special record for Famous Players-Lasky Corp ...
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05 November 1947
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23 October 1947
The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship.
23 March 1947
Lulu's father, wishing to relive his days as a boyscout and to help Lulu get into the girlscouts, takes his daughter on a camping trip.
20 April 1947
In this short directed by Pietro Francisci, later known for hit swords-and-sandals titles such as 1958’s “Hercules” starring Steve Reeves, Lollobrigida appears to sing (she may have been dubbed) Italian folk song “Stornellata Romana.
27 September 1947
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
02 January 1947
A look at a family living in Stoke-on-Trent in the 1940's and what it's like working in the pottery factories that Stoke is famous for.
05 September 1947
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
17 April 1947
This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
25 December 1947
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow.
01 January 1947
Khurshid tries to marry Bahigha, the daughter Arfy Pasha, who rejects the idea of their marriage for the difference in their social status.
04 June 1947
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