The leader of three dopes, Gus Parkyakarkus, barges into the meeting with his cohorts and proceeds to rattle off spiels for several inane prospective movies.

Roast-Beef and Movies was an attempt by MGM (never known for producing skilled comedies) to create its own Three Stooge-themed comedy, with Givot as the Moe Howard-like leader, and Curly Howard – an actual Stooge – in the role normally played by middleman Larry Fine.

[2] Roast-Beef and Movies was one of three MGM Stooge-related shorts filmed using the two-color Technicolor process, originally billed as Colortone Musical Revues.

[1] The use of color was predicated on the decision to build plot devices in Roast-Beef and Movies around the following discarded Technicolor musical numbers from earlier 1930 MGM films: Warner Archive released Roast-Beef and Movies on September 24, 2014 on DVD in region 1 as part of the Classic Shorts From The Dream Factory Series, Volume 3 (featuring Howard, Fine and Howard).

The film was released with five other Ted Healy/Stooge shorts made for MGM: Plane Nuts (1933), Hello Pop!