It's the sleepy tropical kingdom of Valeska. Larry, Curly, and Moe are salesmen for King Winter Outfitting Co. They have no passage home until they sell all of their stock. It's revolutionary times and the boys are brought in for suspicions of being spies. Sympathizer Rita helps them escape from prison. This is a fine Stooges short. You can't go wrong with a Curly Stooges.

Directed by famous silent comedian Charley Chase, the Stooges, in this story, wind up in "Valeska." That's a fictional thriving place in the tropics, we are told (and then shown several guys asleep in the streets).

Vernon Dent plays a revolutionary set to overtake some the country's leader. As soon as the guests leave the town, it's on. The "guests" are three dopey clothing salesmen from Ticondaroga , NY. Yup, you can guess who they are.

This turns out to have a lot of material packed into 17 minutes, a "spy" story where the Stooges are considered traitors, then good guys, then ordered to be executed, then awarded, then shot.....and all of it never seems to bother them.

We also have a funny parrot, earthquakes every so often, and a bunch of loony stuff which could only happen to our guys, the Stooges.

Note: Mexican actress Carmen Laroux plays "Rita," and she had an interesting face. I'm very sad to see that she died about three years after making this Stooges short, passing away at the very young age of 32. I can't find any information on what happened to her, other than she died in Los Angeles. Her last role, an uncredited one, was in the famous classic, "Citizen Kane."

For those of you younger cinema fans don't think for one moment that this Three Stooges short Saved By The Belle has anything to do with a school named Bayside out in California. This film takes place in some unnamed South American country where our three intrepid heroes are salesmen trying to sell winter apparel in the tropics. The country also is on a shifting tectonic plate where sudden earthquakes seem to happen at the strangest and most opportune times for The Three Stooges.

Their antics manage to aggravate hotel owner LeRoy Mason when they can't pay their bill. Of course the company that gave them this territory won't provide them transportation back until they get rid of their winter stock. But they manage to endear themselves to South American siren Carmen Leroux who is involved in the revolution that's brewing. She gives them a mission, like is this woman out of her mind?

Western fans might recognize LeRoy Mason he was in many a western at this time usually as a bad guy, he was in several John Wayne films for Republic and Monogram. The short is directed by silent screen comedian Charley Chase and he brings the best out in Moe, Larry, and Curly.