Three Little Beers is the eleventh Three Stooges short subject from Columbia Pictures.
Plot[]
Gainfully employed in the delivery department of the Panther Pilsner Beer company, the Stooges go through several mishaps while loading the back of their truck with a six-barrel tall stack of beer barrels. After learning of a golf tournament their company is sponsoring, in which cash prizes will be awarded, the boys quickly drive off to the Rancho Golf Club to improve their golfing skills. To gain access, they impersonate reporters by using knobs torn from bathroom fixtures as press badges. The ruse barely succeeds—Moe's and Larry's are marked "press", but Curly's reads "pull". Once inside, the Stooges unknowingly steal some golfers' clothes, and split up to practice—although they know absolutely nothing about golf. Especially when they given a lot of golfers trouble. Curly gets his golf ball stuck in the tree and decides the only way to retrieve it is by chopping the tree down, Moe finds an open area to practice, but the only thing that he hits is the ground, which is soon pockmarked with hundreds of divots, And Larry practices putting, but a root gets in his way, and he tears up the putting green in his efforts to extract the seemingly endless root. All of this destruction is noticed by the two outraged and angry Italian groundskeepers, to one of whom Moe's explanation of the field of divots was, was that "The Pieces are getting Smaller" - this drives the groundskeepers to complain to the golf course's management personnel, who respond by sending the police in pursuit of the trio. The Stooges manage to escape in their beer truck and they never even unloaded the beer. As they drive up a steep hill, two barrels fall off the truck and roll away. Parking the truck, the Stooges give chase but to no avail. It gets worse when the parked truck's brake loosens and the truck rolls into a curb, knocking the rest of the barrels loose, which roll downhill as well — directly toward the Stooges, who are eventually pushed into a freshly laid sidewalk of wet cement.
Notes[]
- This short marked the first appearance of stooge supporting actors John Tyrrell and Eddie Laughton.
- Many of the shots of the Stooges running from the barrels or through traffic use body double stunt actors.