Flagpole Jitters
This short contains a heavy amount of footage from Hokus Pokus (1949).,Because this short was a remake of Hokus Pokus (1949), the original footage featured where the Stooges are on the flagpole and Svengarlic's assistant worries they are still up there is out of place in the remake. In the new footage, Svengarlic is working with two safe crackers who use the Stooges as dupes in a robbery attempt. Because Svengarlic and his assistant were completely innocent in the original film, the remake would have them care less about the Stooges' fate.,Edited from Hokus Pokus (1949),Larry, Moe, and Shemp live together and care for their wheelchair-bound neighbor Mary. They work at a theater where the Great hypnotist Svengarlic is secretly the leader of a robbery gang. He turns the guys into flagpole performers on the side of a building as distraction to a bank heist.

The gags feel a fraction slow for some reason. It's still Stooges fun. The Boston joke is subversively the funniest bit. There is some recycling like other Stooges shorts. It's all very standard as far as the boys go.,