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    SAVED BY THE BELLE |  |  
	
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    Columbia, 1939.  Directed by 
	Charley Chase.  Camera:  
	Allen G. Siegler.  With Moe 
	Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, LeRoy Mason, Carmen Laroux, Gino Corrado, 
	Vernon Dent, Manuel Paris, Al Thompson. |  
	
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			Starts with a sign:  "Valeska:  
			A thriving kingdom in the tropics."  The boys are tossed out of 
			a rooming house where they stay while on business with the King 
			Winter Outfitting Co.  Presented with a bill that features a 
			long beer tab, they think they're getting money from their company, 
			but receive a telegram that reads, "No passage money until you get 
			rid of present wardrobe."  They bail on the bill and are 
			imprisoned. 
			
			They're drafted to help Rita, a 
			revolutionary, get a map to the troops.  They lose the map 
			under a couch and mistakenly pull out a rolled calendar that sits 
			next to the map.  The revolutionary leader turns out to be the 
			hotel owner.  The boys almost die on the firing squad but 
			escape in an ammo truck, which explodes, landing them on the back of 
			a concave horse in the conclusion of this convoluted short. |  
	
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The Three StoogesAn Illustrated History,
 by Michael Fleming
 Broadway Books 1999
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