Meet the Baron | |
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Directed by | Walter Lang |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Written by | Norman Krasna Herman J. Mankiewicz |
Starring | Jack Pearl Jimmy Durante Edna May Oliver Zasu Pitts Ted Healy Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date(s) | October 20, 1933 |
Running time | 68 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Meet the Baron (1933) is a comedy film starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy and the Three Stooges.
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A couple of bungling idiots (Jimmy Durante and Jack Pearl) are abandoned in the deep jungles of Africa by Baron Munchausen. When a rescue team searching for the lost Baron stumble across the pair, they mistake Pearl for the missing Baron, and take the two of them back to America where they receive a hero's welcome.
The phony Baron is invited to speak at Cuddle College, run by Dean Primrose (Edna May Oliver). There he finds a love interest in Zasu Pitts, meets three crazy janitors (The Three Stooges), and faces exposure as a fraud. The Three Stooges were still working with Healy, shortly before they signed their contract with Columbia Pictures, and practically steal the show.
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