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The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.

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Top billed cast

Moe HowardMoe
Larry FineLarry
Curly HowardCurly
Mildred HarrisLeading Lady
Kenneth HarlanLeading man
Bud JamisonFuller Rath
Harry SemelsCecil Z. Swinehardt - Director
John BarrymorePhotograph of John Barrymore (uncredited)
Heinie ConklinGuard (uncredited)
Lew DavisStudio Employee (uncredited)

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