So Long Mr. Chumps
1941 film by Jules White
So Long Mr. Chumps is a 1941 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 53rd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Plot
The Stooges are incompetent but industrious street cleaners. Upon discovering a discarded envelope containing oil bonds, they dutifully return it to its rightful owner, B.O. Davis. Grateful for their integrity, Davis offers them a reward of five thousand dollars on the condition that they locate an honest individual possessing executive capabilities.
They initiate their search by leaving a wallet on the sidewalk for passersby to find, with the expectation that an honest person will reveal their integrity by returning it to them. To their chagrin, the only living being to pass their test is a dog, who returns the wallet and then guides the Stooges to an encounter with his owner. His owner is a distressed young woman who reveals that her beloved has been unjustly imprisoned. She describes him as an honest man and insists that she can prove his innocence if the Stooges will help him to escape from jail.
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