Scheming Schemers

Scheming Schemers is the 173rd 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.

As the Norfleets house transforms into Niagara Falls, two party guests named Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kenneth MacDonald and Christine McIntyre manage to swipe the prized Van Brocklin painting. Shemp heads for the upstairs bath to continue fixing the pipes, and Moe and Larry discover that the ring was stuck in Larrys hair the whole time. Mr. Norfleet is happy about his ring, but frantic that his painting was stolen. Moe and Larry see Allen hiding the painting in a pipe, and a pie fight ensues, extending to the other party guests. The Stooges manage to recover the painting, and Mr. Norfleet decides to reward them. Moe and Larry wonder where Shemp has been all this time. It turns out that he got himself stuck fixing the bathrooms pipes.The short is a reworking of Vagabond Loafers, which in itself was a remake of A Plumbing We Will Go additional pie fight footage was borrowed from HalfWits Holiday. Scheming Schemers was one of four shorts filmed in the wake of Shemp Howards death using earlier footage and a standin. ........

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