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It's A Shemp! Shivering Sherlocks Traditional Cache

Hidden : 3/25/2019
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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When I was a kid, I was disappointed if the featured Stooge short for that day was one in which Shemp Howard was the third stooge. But now I have a new found respect for the man, stepping in as he did after the debilitating stroke of his brother Curly.

 

What I have found out about the Shemp era of The Three Stooges is that all of the shorts produced in the 1940s were remade in the 1950's using lots of stock footage from previous shorts. It was a cost cutting measure used back in the day that mostly fooled all of us young viewers. This short, Shivering Sherlocks, was recycled into another short, Of Cash And Hash, with what I estimate is around 75 percent of the same footage. (I actually watched them simultaneously).

So in this new series, I now give you a simple traditional cache for the whole family to enjoy, and then a companion mystery cache, for which you can determine the coordinates using information from clips of both shorts.

First of all, from Wikipedia:

Shivering Sherlocks a 1948 film starring the American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges  (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard). Is the 104th short film released by Columbia Pictures starring The Three Stooges. The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

The Plot:

The Stooges are mistaken for three armored car thieves. Captain Mullins (Vernon Dent) gives the boys a lie detector test, but finds no reason to hold them. He releases them, under protective custody, to Gladys Harmon (Christine McIntyre), owner of the Elite Café, who gives them an alibi. They try to return the favor by working at the Café, but have trouble with this.

When Gladys is informed that she has inherited some money and a spooky old mansion, the Stooges escort her to check out the property, where the real armored car bandits and their hideous hatchet man, Angel (Duke York), are hiding. While the Stooges are distracted due to Larry getting something to open the door and Shemp talking to Moe, Gladys has her mouth covered and is dragged inside. The Stooges go in to search for her. Gladys is meanwhile tied to a chair and gagged. Angel enters the room and seems about to attack her, but hears the Stooges and goes after them. The Stooges encounter him and he chases them through the house, but Shemp is able to trap all three criminals in barrels and they are arrested. Gladys has meanwhile somehow been freed and watches this happily. Meanwhile, Shemp accidentally drops a barrel of flour on Larry and Moe.

Trivia:

The diner scene in movie was taken from Busy Buddies. Shivering Sherlocks was remade in 1955 as Of Cash And Hash, using ample stock footage.

This was the final Stooge film directed by long-time Stooge director Del Lord, as well as the only Stooge short he directed with Shemp Howard as a member of the team.

This entry features a recurring gag of "Man Vs. Soup," wherein one of the Stooges is about to eat a soup that, at first unbeknownst to them, contains a live bivalve that continually eats the crackers the Stooge drops in it, and a battle between the two parties ensues. In 1941's Dutiful But Dumb, Curly tries to defeat a stubborn oyster; in Shivering Sherlocks, Moe is having problems with clam chowder. Larry would recreate the routine in 1954's Income Tax Sappy.

Have fun with this one!

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