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This was the only (semi-) sequel among the Three Stooges' shorts. The movie begins, unlike You Nazty Spy!
with Moe Hailstone (Moe Howard) firmly ensconced as the Hitler--like dictator of Moronica. Curley Howard plays Field Marshall Herring (a dig at Hermann Goering), who has so many medals, that he wears them on both the front and back of his coat. Larry Fine plays the unnamed Minister of Propaganda (perhaps Gallstone, from the previous film?) The movie plays fast and loose with continuity, as Hailstone and company were eaten by lions in the previous film.

The movie follows much the same pattern as the first film. It opens at the estate of King Hermann the 6 7/8s, the deposed king of Moronica. Ixnay, Amscray and Umpchay, the war profiteers from the first film (although Umpchay was called "Onay" there) have decided that they've had enough of the dictator they put in power, and want to help Herman retake the throne. To this end, he sends his daughter, the princess Glinda (Matty Herring in the first film) to try and assassinate Hailstone. She manages to secrete an explosive cueball into the dicator's pool table. Meanwhile, Dictator Moe Hailstone of Moronica enjoys a shave, and fights Curley and Larry for a turkey (the winner of that battle is a picture of Napoleon who grabs the bird from the bewildered Stooges). Glinda enters, and starts to place in Moe's mind the idea that his allies, the "Axle" partners, are plotting against him.

The film's climax occurs when Hailstone orders the "Axle" partners -- Chizzilini (a parody of Benito Mussolini), the Bey of Rum, and unnamed Russian and Japanese delegates (the latter played by Duncan Reynaldo, who would later go on to fame playing The Cisco Kid on television) -- in on the carpet for what he believes is their double-dealing. As the meeting breaks into chaos following Hailstone's declaration that the world belongs to him (puncuated by his grabbing a globe off the table), the Stooges go into action on the other delegates and each other. Finally, with the Axle defeated, Curley decides to shoot a rack of pool to cool off. After the inevitable explosion from Glinda's rigged cueball, the last scene shows Hailstone, Herring and the Minister of Propaganda as trophy heads on Herman 6 7/8ths' wall.

Historical note

The major "Axle" partners shown in the conference room sequence are parodies of the major Axis powers of the time -- with one and a half exceptions. Turkey was never a member of the Axis, and in the event, remained carefully neutral throughout much of World War Two. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, although never a signatory to the Pact of Steel (and, obviously, inimical to the Anti-Comintern Pact) was, due to its friendly relations with Germany up until June of 1941, could be considered a "silent partner" of the Axis.

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