Dunked in the Deep

Dunked in the Deep is the 119th 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.

Plot

The Stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor Mr. Borscht (Gene Roth), a spy for a fictitious USSR-like country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, and sustained by eating salami, they discover that their 'friend' has concealed stolen microfilm in watermelons. After a wild chase, the boys overtake Borscht and recover the microfilm.

Notes

• Dunked in the Deep was reworked in 1956 as Commotion on the Ocean using ample stock footage.
• Shemp Howard accidentally cut his hand on the lock when he rushes to the door in an effort to open it.
• Hiding microfilm in watermelons is an allusion to an actual event from the previous year. In 1948, Time Magazine's managing editor Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist spy-turned government informer, accused Alger Hiss of being a member of the Communist Party and a spy for the Soviet Union. In presenting evidence against Hiss, Chambers produced the Pumpkin Papers: four rolls of microfilm of State Department documents, which Chambers had concealed in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm.^[1]

References

External links

• Dunked in the Deep at the Internet Movie Database
• Dunked in the Deep at AllRovi