Wee Wee Monsieur is the twenty-ninth short subject starring the Three Stooges.
Plot[]
The Stooges are artists (Moe is a sculptor, Larry is a music composer, and Curly is a painter) living in Paris. When the landlord (Harry Semels) comes for their overdue rent and threatens calls the Parisian police on them by locking them up in the Bastille for not paying the rent, the boys skip out and wind up accidentally joining the French Foreign Legion that they confuse with the American Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard Captain Gorgonzola (William Irving) from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys are given a chance to bring him back alive. The Stooges make their way to the stronghold where the captain was taken, all disguised as Santa Claus (complete with a sleigh and a reindeer). Despite the disguise not working, they are able to quickly knock out a guard who confronts them and make their way inside. They find their captain held by an evil sheik named Tsimmis (Vernon Dent) who is trying to offer him expensive jewelry and a harem of beautiful women in exchange for the Legion's ammunition. The trio are forced to disguise themselves again as part of the harem and use an opportunity during a dance to render the sheik and his head bodyguard unconscious. The four then escape, but end up coming across a lion's den by accident. Before the lion can eat them, Curly is able to placate it into drawing them on a wagon back to their camp.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Curly Howard as Curly
- Eugene Borden as Enlistment Officer
- William Irving as Captain Gorgonzola
- Bud Jamison as Sergeant
- John Lester Johnson as Palace Guard
- Ethelreda Leopold as Harem Girl
- Ida May as Harem Girl
- Victor Travers as Man outside Legion HQ
- Bert Young as Palace Sentry
Notes[]
- The Stooges sing the "Lollipop Song," which they would sing again in Self-Made Maids.
- This is the first short in which the Stooges are told they must don a disguise and they disguise themselves in Santa Claus outfits. That bit would be reused in the Shemp short Malice in the Palace and its remake, Rumpus in the Harem
- The title Wee Wee Monsieur is a parody of Oui, oui, Monsieur (French for "Yes, sir").