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Malice in the Palace (1949)

Name: Malice in the Palace
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1949
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, George J. Lewis, Everett Brown

194916 minComedyStrong rights evidence

Malice in the Palace (1949) is a 16-minute comedy short film that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Jules White.

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About Malice in the Palace (1949)

Malice in the Palace is a 1949 short subject directed by Jules White starring the American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 117th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

The Stooges operate a Middle Eastern restaurant called Cafe Casbah Bah, where they become entangled in a string of mishaps while serving patrons Hassan ben Sober and Ginna Rumma. A culinary incident ensues when spaghetti inadvertently splatters onto the patrons' faces, prompting the Stooges to offer a replacement meal of rabbit and hot dogs. Their efforts are further complicated by the presence of a stray cat and dog, leading to mistaken impressions about the meal's ingredients. Unbeknownst to the Stooges, their encounter with Sober and Rumma conceals a sinister plot.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Malice in the Palace (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Jules White
Cast includes: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, George J. Lewis, Everett Brown, Frank Lackteen, Joe Palma, Johnny Kascier
Country: United States

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Airs on

Laugh Track - CH 3, Comedy TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Three Stooges; not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Three Stooges; not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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