Horst_In_Translation Review of Hold That Lion!

Hold That Lion! (1947)

Subjectively not among my favorites (despite an interesting cameo)

[4/10 · 11 January 2017]

"Hold That Lion!" is another 17-minute short film by the Three Stooges. Like most of their work, it is a black-and-white sound film and this one is from 1947, so it has its 70th anniversary this year. It was made by White and Adler again and features the trio including Shemp which shows you that it is not from the early days of the Stooges anymore. World War II was over already and the Stooges were again completely unpolitical at this point. This is one of the trio's more (but not most) known works, probably because it features a lion (therefore the pretty bad play on words in the title) and also it is the last on-screen appearance by Curly, even if he was not part of the Stooges anymore at that point already. The gang gets tricked by a lawyer and they lose a lot of money to him, but they keep following him on a train in their attempts to get it back. This one had a lot of "funny violence" (lets call it like that) and these films with a lot of this are usually not my favorites from the gigantic Stooges body of work. That's why I give it a thumbs-down and don't recommend the watch.