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Director
  
Charley Chase

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.8/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Producer
  
Hugh McCollum

Language
  
English

Saved by the Belle movie poster

Writer
  
Searle Kramer
,
Elwood Ullman

Release date
  
June 30, 1939 (1939-06-30)

Genres
  
Short Film, Comedy, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Curly Howard
(Curly),
LeRoy Mason
(Singapore Joe),
Carmen Laroux
(SeƱorita Rita)

Similar movies
  
Tugboat Mickey
,
Orphan's Benefit
,
Mickey's Birthday Party
,
Symphony Hour
,
Pacific Rim
,
The Artist

Saved by the Belle is the 40th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1939 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a fictional South American country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys the prison, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans, however, the Stooges are tricked, when they are to e commission by the revolutionary army, only to face a firing squad, in which the earthquake causes the Stooges to escape in a truck, filled with explosives. When Curly lights a cigarette, Moe tells him to throw it away, however, Curly throws it into the back of the truck, filled with explosives, causing the truck to blow up, landing the Stooges on a horse, which throws them off, as the film ends.

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Saved by the Belle IMDb Saved by the Belle themoviedb.org