Three sailors, stolen uniforms, one fake admiral, and a bomb that definitely goes off.
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Acting
Curly's fake admiral is unhinged perfection.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI explosions hit different, somehow funnier.
Writing
Plot escalates from party crash to international incident.
Director
Del Lord
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Curly Howard
Curly
Phyllis Barry
Spy
Harry Semels
Count Alfred Gehrol
Vernon Dent
Party Guest (uncredited)
Charles Dorety
Policeman (uncredited)
Ned Glass
Sailor with Telegram (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
Policeman (uncredited)
Al Thompson
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
John Ince
Butler (uncredited)
James C. Morton
Admiral H.S. Taylor (uncredited)
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