Hot Ice is a good example of a bad idea. Columbia Pictures took two Three Stooges shorts from seven years earlier, added a little bit of new footage, and release it as a new film.
Hot Ice (1955) starring the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp), Kenneth MacDonald, Christine McIntyre
In short: Hot Ice is a recycling of two earlier, funnier, Shemp-era short films. Scotland Yard footage is taken from “The Hot Scots“. The rest mostly consists of footage from “Crime on Their Hands” (1948). I will say that the new scene in the bar, where the Stooges want to question Barbara Bartay, is very funny!
Cast of characters
- Shemp Howard (Three Arabian Nuts) … Shemp
- Larry Fine (Don’t Throw That Knife!) … Larry
- Moe Howard (Hokus Pokus) … Moe (as Moe)
- Kenneth MacDonald (Three Dark Horses) … Dapper Malone
- Christine McIntyre (Who Done It?) … Bea (archive footage)
- Barbara Bartay (Stone Age Romeos) … English Woman at Café
Additional Cast
- Lester Allen (Crime on their Hands) … Runty (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Jimmy Aubrey … The Gorilla’s Keeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Ray Corrigan (Three Missing Links) … Gorilla (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Budd Fine (Back to the Woods) … Thug in Café (uncredited)
- George Lloyd (Baby Sitters Jitters) … Squid McGuffey (archive footage) (uncredited)
- James Logan (The Hot Scots) … Dawson (uncredited)
- Clive Morgan … Inspector McCormack (uncredited)
- Joe Palma (Shot in the Frontier) … Muscles (uncredited)
- Cy Schindell (I’m a Monkey’s Uncle) … Muscles (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Blackie Whiteford (Three Hams on Rye) … Thug in Café (uncredited)
- Harry Wilson (Nutty But Nice) … Man in Bed (uncredited)