Talk:Malice in the Palace

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Hello - Hello - Hello (Hello...),

  Great write-up of an above-average Stooges short. Most of the 1947 to 1952 Stooges' shorts were pretty good, indeed there was nothing funnier on film coming out of Hollywood at that time.

Spunky dialogue, tight editing. Some fairly gruesome violence pervades these efforts, but that was turn of the century tradition, the knockabout, clowning thing.

  To the movie listed above. For about 20 years I've read about this incredibly interesting, alternate version, featuring Curly. Was his involvement one single photograph for the lobby card? Did they actually shoot film with Curly as the Chef? If they didn't use the footage, was it placed carefully in the Columbia Pictures archive? Is it useable/commercially viable for DVD today?
  I've written before that I am totally mystified at the apparent lack of interest in an archeological dig for this valuable artifact. 
  The W. C. Fields sequence from "Tales of Manhattan" (1942) was found and included on a commercial videotape of the movie I bought a while back. The Stooges are quite possibly the most popular act of that Golden Age, and it appears that no one sees the potential for the alternate takes' great success, nearly 60 years later!
  If Curly's performance is sub-par or difficult to watch, I still think it could be framed in a kind of 2-fer, with the more familiar one. Although, there are many Curlies, starting with "Microphonies", and, of course, sadly, ending with "Half-Wits Holiday", where he's not himself, and fans find a way of cheering him on.
  Laurel and Hardy fans do their own "work-around" on "Utopia/Atoll K" from 1951.
  I hope there's hope that this presumptive unpolished gem from the vaults, can finally shine for the grateful public.

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