Rl.
Feb. 26 / Prod. No. 513 / 16
m / p Del Lord
and Hugh McCollum /
d Del Lord / st scr Elwood Ullman
and Monty Collins / ph
Benjamin Kline / e
Burton Kramer / C: Monty Collins (Mother
Stooge), Vernon Dent (Red) and Ernie Adams (Stumpy)
SYN:
Curly receives a letter from the
Inventors' Association that his amazing new gold collar button retriever
is "incomprehensable and utterly impractical." The Stooges,
of course misinterpret the letter to imply that they are a success,
and head west to strike gold with the contraption (an odd looking
bow and arrow contraption). While in the process of prospectin' the
boys meet up with another prospector who talks them into to buying
a phoney deed to the Lost Mine. The mine supposedly contains 187,000
tons of gold worth $35 an ounce. Curly, with his mind-boggling contraption,
somehow finds the real lost mine, and the boys suddenly find themselves
in high cotton. Red and Stumpy, (not Ren and Stempy), try to swindle
the boys out of their new found wealth but the Stooges prove that
they're not 100% fools in the end...only 99%.
Quick
Hits:
-
Curly's infamous "I shot an arrow
in the air, where it lands I do not care, I get my arrows wholesale!"
line is used in this short when he shoots his gold-seeking contraption.
FN: Monty
Collins, who appears in drag as Mother Stooge, also co-wrote this short.
