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The boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.The boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.The boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.
Edward G. Robinson
- Gangster
- (as Edward Robinson)
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
- Farina
- (as Farina)
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Stymie
- (as Stymie)
Norman 'Chubby' Chaney
- Chubby
- (as Chubby)
Dorothy DeBorba
- Echo
- (as Echo)
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins
- Wheezer
- (as Wheezer)
Pete the Dog
- Pete
- (as Pete the Pup)
- Directors
- William C. McGann
- John G. Adolfi(uncredited)
- Thomas Atkins(uncredited)
- Writers
- Al Boasberg(uncredited)
- Edwin J. Burke(uncredited)
- Arthur Caesar(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- Trivia"The Stolen Jools" is this film's original title. It was made by the National Vaudeville Artists (NVA) as part of a charity campaign and distributed free to theatres in 1931. After the showing a live speaker would come out and request donations. The film was rediscovered in 1972 in Britain, where it had been released in 1932 as "The Slippery Pearls," one of the Masquers Club comedy series for RKO. Subsequently a U.S. print was discovered and the film's true title, origin and purpose were at last known.
- GoofsOn Detective Kane's pawn ticket, "saxophone" is misspelled "saxaphone."
- Alternate versionsOriginal release included several musical numbers, including ones performed by Dorothy Lee, Warner Baxter and Maurice Chevalier. Prints of this original version survive, but all circulating prints derive from the Blackhawk Films version which cut the musical numbers out in the interest of copyright. This cut version is the only one that has ever been released on the home movie market, video or DVD. The original cut does survive in Blackhawk Films' collection.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Our Gang Story (1994)
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A look back at Hollywood in the early 30s
This short to benefit a TB hospital sponsored by a cigarette company should be a good indication that things are going to be slightly off-beat. The lighting is somewhat inconsistent, a problem with a lot of early films up through the 1930s.
This short has brief appearances by major stars (either at the time, recent past, or soon to be) - Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, the Little Rascals, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Wiliam Haines (career about to end in pictures due to his being an openly gay man which was not approved by Louis B. Meyer), Warner Baxter, Irene Dunn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Oakie, Fay Wray, and Gabby Hayes. There's also some actors who weren't as big, such as Wheeler & Woolsey - a comedy team that had one of the better bits in a diner, Richard Dix, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth, Eugene Palette, and Mitzi Green, who played many young girl parts, such as Becky Thatcher to Jackie Coogan's Tom Sawyer in a couple of films.
There's not much of a plot - just a theft of Norma Shearer's jewels by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone, which are then stolen by Mitzi Green. Inspector Eddie Kane is driven to the scene of the crime by Laurel & Hardy and basically then has a 1 or 2 sentence dialog with almost all of the other actors.
This short has brief appearances by major stars (either at the time, recent past, or soon to be) - Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, the Little Rascals, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Wiliam Haines (career about to end in pictures due to his being an openly gay man which was not approved by Louis B. Meyer), Warner Baxter, Irene Dunn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Oakie, Fay Wray, and Gabby Hayes. There's also some actors who weren't as big, such as Wheeler & Woolsey - a comedy team that had one of the better bits in a diner, Richard Dix, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth, Eugene Palette, and Mitzi Green, who played many young girl parts, such as Becky Thatcher to Jackie Coogan's Tom Sawyer in a couple of films.
There's not much of a plot - just a theft of Norma Shearer's jewels by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone, which are then stolen by Mitzi Green. Inspector Eddie Kane is driven to the scene of the crime by Laurel & Hardy and basically then has a 1 or 2 sentence dialog with almost all of the other actors.
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- jtyroler
- Nov 5, 2011
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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