Next Stooge: Booty and the Beast (non-porn version)

Long before Michael Mann was the king of the one-word-title working man's heist picture, there was the following Stooge short called Booty and the Beast, a play on their previous short called Hold That Lion!  Mostly because most of the second and third acts are cribbed from Lion!, including post-stroke Curly with his full head of hair.  Ah, nostalgia.
Now, most of the time, the Stooges are working with prop tools that they hit each other about the and with, but when it comes to electric power tools, even the Stooges sometimes have to work with the real deal Holyfield.  Such is the case here.  Larry plugs in a big-ass drill and prepares to drill open a safe.  Moe grabs onto the giant bit and Larry pulls the trigger.  It looks like Moe lightly hurts his hand, but not enough that he wusses out and yells "Cut!" and asks for first aid like some kind of wussy.  Tis neither the showbiz way nor the Stooge way, I say!  Not that I would know, of course.
I should probably mention the plot.  Kenneth MacDonald is at his smarmy best as a man trying to break into a house.  Our three Stooges are driving in a car which breaks down right in front of the house.  They run up to MacDonald and ask to use his phone.  See, they don't realize that he's trying to break in, and not the actual owner of the house.  Actually, it's kind of lucky for MacDonald that the Stooges are so gullible, as his explanations for the rather blatantly suspicious things he's doing are a tad lazy at best and criminally lazy at worst.
And so, as ordained by their newfound puppet master, the Stooges let the fox into the henhouse, and help him drill open a circular wall safe and blow it up.  The Stooges get lightly knocked out by the explosion, MacDonald makes off with the loot, and the Stooges incapacitate security guard Vernon Dent before embarking on their latest search for quick movie justice.  Hmm!  That light fixture that knocks out Vernon Dent looks awfully familiar.  In fact, this whole first act seems vaguely familiar; maybe I've just seen it already... I hope.
And so, we get a lightly reworked Hold That Lion.  The second half of Hold That Lion had to be reworked to remove all traces of the name Ichabod Slipp.  However, in our next Stooge short, Loose Loot, we'll be relying on the first half of Hold That Lion, and the name Ichabod Slipp will make its triumphant return!

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-so sayeth The Movie Hooligan