Malice in the Palace (1949)

Guard outside palace: Hark! Who goes there?
Moe, Larry and Shemp (together): Santa Claus!
Guard outside palace: Ah, there ain't no Santa Claus.
Shemp: [as all three of them get out and open their bag] Oh, yes, there is, and we've got a present for you.
Guard outside palace: You have?
Moe: Yeah, right here!
[hits the guard over the head and he falls into the bag unconscious]

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Larry: [after Hassan, Ginna, Moe, and Shemp think he's killed a dog and a cat, he comes out to serve the food] Here you are, gentlemen. Hot dogs, when it comes to cookin' are the cat's meow.

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Moe: [to Hassen Ben Soba and Ginna Rumma] What'll you have?
Hassan Ben Soba: We want...
Moe: [cutting him off] We don't have any more.
Larry: All we got left are rabbit and hot dogs.
Hassan Ben Soba: Rabbit.
Ginna Rumma: Hot dogs.
Larry: Hot dog, they'll take rabbit.

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Larry Fine's autobiography contains a photograph of Curly Howard as a chef in a deleted scene from this film. Curly had suffered a stroke a few years earlier and had left the act. He had clearly lost weight, and his face was disguised with a huge handlebar mustache.
This is one of 4 Three Stooges shorts that ended up falling into the public domain, the other 3 being Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Disorder in the Court. Because of that, these four shorts frequently appear on very cheaply processed video and DVD compilations.
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