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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18 October 1945
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24 September 1942
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01 January 1956
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15 February 1962
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15 November 1945
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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.
20 June 1946
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05 February 1943
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28 September 1930
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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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10 July 1947
This is the Loyola Films version of Cathedral Films original version of "The Story of Jairus' Daughter.
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.
13 February 1947
A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.
20 September 1947
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh.
05 June 1947
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter.
11 August 1947
Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner.
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.
19 December 1947
In a house in a small town, three sisters - Tant Grön, Tant Brun and Tant Gredelin - live together.
24 October 1947
Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by veteran Lambert Hillyer.
11 January 1947
A virtuous Spanish princess becomes queen of Portugal, and soon is affected by the social struggles and the reckless fight to power between the king's faction and that of his son's.
25 September 1947
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
17 February 1947
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