Disorder in the Court is the 15th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
THE PLOT
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend and colleague, Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), is a dancer at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians. She is accused of killing Kirk Robin (a play on "Who Killed Cock Robin?").
When Curly is called to the witness stand, he is nowhere to be found. The defense attorney (Bud Jamison) goes out into the hall only to find the Stooges playing jacks and tic-tac-toe simultaneously on the floor. After considerable mutual frustration, the court finally swears in Curly, who begins to describe the events that took place on the night of the murder. He offers to show the court exactly what happened, and the Stooges break into their musical routine, with Larry on violin, Moe harmonica, and Curly on spoons. Gail Tempest shrugs off her coat and reveals her dancer costume, to the great surprise of the jury.
The act ends when Larry mistakes a toupee for a tarantula; Moe subsequently takes the guard's gun and starts shooting the toupée, causing pandemonium in the court. After everything is brought under control, Moe and Curly re-enact the actual murder (with Curly on the receiving end). Moe then looks at the parrot, who was at the murder scene, and sees a note tied to the parrot's foot. He opens the parrot cage, and the parrot flies out. The Stooges eventually capture the bird by shooting water at it through a fire hose. Moe then reads the letter out loud and reveals that it is a confession from the real murderer, Buck Wing, which proves Gail's innocence. The note also said that Buck Wing will disappear. Just when they are going to get their picture taken at the front page, the water hose explodes, causing everyone to get wet.
TRIVIA
Since this series of puzzles is saluting Larry Fine, of note in this short is his violin playing in their musical routine. A hilarious moment is when Larry removes the gum from Moe's nose, and after doing so, in what looks like an impromptu performance, goes into an impressive Tarzan imitation.
The title Disorder in the Court is a play on the stereotypical judge's cry, "Order in the court!"
Sol Horwitz, the father of Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, makes an uncredited appearance as a member of the public audience.
Disorder in the Court was the first Stooge short to give Curly Howard top billing over costars Larry Fine and Moe Howard.This is the first Stooge short in which Curly is spelled "C-U-R-L-Y" in the opening titles instead of the previous "C-U-R-L-E-Y." The title card also has the Stooges inverted reading from left to right, Curly-Larry-Moe, as opposed to Moe-Larry-Curly in previous shorts, effectively giving Curly "top billing." This change in the title card coincides with the refined and more familiar Columbia Pictures "torch lady" image, with a shimmering light instead of the primitive animation of light rays in the previous version. In addition, the "Columbia" theme now uses a more upbeat theme, featuring a brass introduction.
The perp is a dancer named Buck Wing, a reference to the buck-and-wing dance common in vaudeville and minstrel shows.
The classic 'swearing in' ('Take off your hat!,' 'Raise your right hand,' 'Judgy wudgy') routine was borrowed nearly verbatim from Buster Keaton's Sidewalks of New York, which was directed by Stooge veteran and producer Jules White.
THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES
To obtain the coordinates for the final location of this cache, just answer the two trivia questions obtained directly from this short and translate the answer into the coordinates for the final location. Finally, answer the bonus trivia question to get a clue for bonus cache GC6B619 Larry Fine:
North Coordinates: When Curly is told to pull the trigger on Exhibit A, the revolver, to illustrate how difficult it would be for the woman on trial to do so, it goes off (of course), and one of the shots hits the attorney in the backside, causing him to tumble onto a lady in the jury box. She proceeds to give out her phone number as Broadlane ABCD, where ABCD is a four digit number. Using that four digit number, the north coordinates are N41 45.(A-1)(B/3)([C+D]/3).
West coordinates: Before being recaptured, the parrot keeps uttering a three word phrase. Using those three words, and A=1, B=2, C=3, etc, the west coordinates for the final location are W088 22.(W2L3-W1L4)(W2L2)(W1L1-W3L2).
(For example, W1L1 = the value of Word 1, Letter 1)
BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: Record the number assigned to the letter below for usage in bonus cache GC6B619 Larry Fine.
In the note read in court, after Buck Wing confesses to the murder he mentions that he is:
Shuffling off to Buffalo (E = 5)
Escaping to New York (E = 7)
To watch this short, use the following link :
Episode 15 Disorder In The Court
For a checksumm value of the six missing coordinate digits, see the hint.