{"id":31562,"date":"2023-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31562"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T23:16:31","slug":"malice-in-the-palace-1949-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31562","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Malice in the Palace&#8221; (1949) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012123zview_malacepalace.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Malice in the Palace <\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Shemp<\/strong> <strong>Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Vernon Dent<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Everett Brown<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys are diner owners whose customers end up wearing more food than they eat.\u00a0 When two crooks dupe the boys into stealing a cursed diamond, they get wise and attempt to return the gem for a reward.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Malice in the Palace<\/em> almost featured Curly!\u00a0 Based on Curly&#8217;s successful\u00a0 cameo in<em> Hold That Lion<\/em>, he was set to play an angry chef.\u00a0 Sadly, his illness affected the performance, so the scene was reshot with another actor.\u00a0 The photo below features a nearly unrecognizable Curly (he&#8217;d lost much weight, had hair and a fake mustache).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Malice in the Palace <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z012123zview_malacepalace2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malice in the Palace (1949) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Felix Adler Stars: Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Vernon Dent\u00a0and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34661,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions\/34661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}