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The Stooges are pawnbrokers with a sassy son who wants to know why he has three fathers. This leads into a flashback. It seems that the moll of protection racketeer Butch McGee left her sister's baby with Larry. The Stooges tend toward unorthodox child care methods, such as a loaded gun for a pacifier and a large milk bottle with a glove on it. Enter McGee and his gang, who want the Stooges to pay up their protection fee... or else.
Disjointed plot that leaves a bad taste when one realizes the Stooges have raised a kidnapped child, and somewhere out there is a mother who doesn't know where her child is.
Harold "Bill" Brauer's first costarring appearance with the Stooges. Bill Brauer and Emil Sitka are the only supporting actors to work with all six Stooges.
Costar Harold "Bill" Brauer ('Butch McGee') was a guest of the 1989 Three Stooges Convention in Philadelphia. See The Three Stooges Journal # 51 (Fall 1989) for the story.
Costar Beverly Warren ('Molly') was a special guest of the 2003 Three Stooges Fan Club Meeting, reported in The Three Stooges Journal # 106 (Summer 2003). A year prior, Beverly graciously welcomed fans to her home in California, for an interview that was published in The Three Stooges Journal # 101 (Spring 2002).

Larry Fine
Larry

Jerry Howard
Curly

Moe Howard
Moe

Jackie Jackson
Egbert

Harold Brauer
Butch McGee

Beverly Warren
Molly

Wally Rose
Henchman

Joe Palma
Henchman

John Merton
Detective, scene deleted

Vernon Dent
Detective, scene deleted

Danny Craig
Curly's stand-in

Dave Levitt
Moe's stand-in

Eli Schmuckler
Larry's stand-in

Unidentified THREE LOAN WOLVES
Baby Egbert

Jules White
Producer

Jules White
Director

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

George F. Kelley
Director of Photography

Edwin Bryant
Film Editor

Charles Clague
Art Director

Tommy Flood
Assistant Director
| Working Title(s): | IN HOCK |
| Title Origin: | Possibly a reference to Columbia's movie series "The Lone Wolf" (1935 - 1947) |
| Prod. No.: | 4053 |
| Shooting Days: | 4 days From: 1946-02-27 To: 1946-03-02 |
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Call me weird, but I always loved this short. Yeah, there's the obvious talk about Curly & what he could or could not do--but in the meantime, there's a grade A performance turned in by everyone's favorite porcupine, Larry. So many classic lines he delivers, like "the bag left me holding the babe" or his answer to Moe about how the kid got in their pawn shop--business as usual. I also enjoyed his story about the 3 bears. Larry got a rare opportunity to shine in the spotlight & knocked it out of the park (imo). So rather than weep about poor Curly, I choose to revel in the greatness that is Larry--taste terrible, I better kill it with a cigarette.
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(8) Watching this for the second time, I noticed a slight "plot hole" (for lack of a better description). The bulk of the short is supposed to be told in flashback by the Stooges, yet the scene between Butch and Molly is something they couldn't have known about! (The "onion" bit arguably fits this as well.)
As for the "goof" of the baby being called a "her" -- only Curly says that, and at that point he has had no way of knowing what the baby is anyway.









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