Dunked in the Deep

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Dunked in the Deep is a 1949 short-subject comedy film starring the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Shemp). It was produced and directed by Jules White and written by Felix Adler. Co-starring in the short is Gene Roth as 'Mr. Borscht.'

The Stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor Borscht, a spy for a fictitious USSR-like country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, and sustained by eating salami, they discover that their 'friend' has concealed stolen microfilm in watermelons. After a wild chase, the Boys overtake Borscht and recover the microfilm.

[edit] Trivia

• Dunked was remade in 1956 as Commotion on the Ocean, which also reuses footage from the Stooge short Crime on Their Hands.

• Hiding microfilm in watermelons is a reference to an event from the previous year. In 1948, Time Magazine's managing editor Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist spy turned government informer, accused Alger Hiss of being a member of the Communist Party and a spy for the Soviet Union. In presenting evidence against Hiss, Chambers produced the Pumpkin Papers: four rolls of microfilm of State Department documents, which Chambers had concealed in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his Maryland farm.

[edit] External link

• Dunked in the Deep at the Internet Movie Database