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Jail Birds of Paradise.jpg

Poster for the film.

Status: Lost


Jail Birds of Paradise, known as the working titles Stars and Stripes, Reformers, and Reformania, is a lost Stooges short film from 1934. The film was written and directed by Al Boasberg, and it only featured the Howard Brothers, Moe and Curly. It was the ninth film of 'Ted Healy and His Stooges' during their time at MGM.

The plot involved that during the warden's three-month absence, his daughter Miss Deering (Dorothy Appleby) has turned Paradise Prison into a "paradise," a luxury hotel with all the amenities and the guards do all the work. As Miss Deering and her secretary tour the prison, there are a series of sight gags involving various prisoners.

Among them, registering at Paradise's front desk, Joe Pantz (Moe Howard), an axe murderer who has transferred from Leavenworth. That night there is a show in the Prison Auditorium with dinner and music. Moe enters with Jerry "Curly" Howard, who is wearing a toupee, and the two work a hair tonic scheme among the other prisoners; this scene would later be reworked for Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita in the 1961 film, Snow White and the Three Stooges. The evening end with gunshots and a vase-throwing melee among the prisoners.

The film is now considered a lost film with no studio or collector prints, or negatives is known to exist. Only two stills of the film survived.