Very Close Veins is a funny Ben Blue short with a brief appearance of Shemp Howard

In this short, Ben Blue has quite a bulging vein in his knee. The doctor recommends a trip to Alaska to cool that off. So he goes...Plenty of funny scenes and lines with a special treat in seeing Shemp Howard in the Alaska sequence constantly spitting out coins! So that's a recommendation of Very Close Veins.

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Dr. Toppanbottam suggests his patient go to Alaska for his vein problem. Rosie in the Roaring Borealis overhears Ben talking about his very close veins and understand it to be a gold vein.

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Ben Blue and Dorothy Dare in Very Close Veins (1934)

Ben Blue and Robert Gleckler in Very Close Veins (1934)

Ben Blue, Harry T. Morey, and June East in Very Close Veins (1934)

Ben Blue and June East in Very Close Veins (1934)

Robert Gleckler and June East in Very Close Veins (1934)

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