Rl.
July 2 / Prod. No. 274 / 17
m / ap Jules White / d
Del Lord / st
scr Felix Adler / ph Benjamin
Kline / e
Charles Nelson / C: Ted Lorch (Gen. Muster),
Hand Mann (Lem), Stanley Blystone (Longhorn Pete), Sam Lufkin (Colonel),
Hank Bell (Character), Ethan Laidlaw, George Gray and Joe Palma (Bit
Men)
SYN:
With cattle rustlers becoming a scourge, General Muster
sends for his three best undercover agents to wipe these varmints
out: Wild Bill Hiccup (Moe), Buffalo Billious (Curly), and Just-Plain
Bill (Larry). Their target: Longhorn Pete, the leading cattle thief
in the country. Disguised as gamblers, the trio play a wild (and dishonest)
game of poker with Longhorn Pete, who eventually sees through their
cheating ways and threatens to kill them. The Stooges make their exit
in a covered wagon (Rattlesnake Joe's Medicine Show), with Pete and
his gang in hot pursuit. Curly in the back of the wagon starts chunking
pots and pans on the trail to trip up the angry followers. Knowing
this will only hold them off temporarily, the Stooges take refuge
in an abandoned cabin. Things really heat up when Curly accidentally
dumps a box of bullets into a meat grinder, creating a terrific machine
gun that blasts the outlaws into oblivion, and eventually causing
them to surrender.
Quick
Hits:
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Footage from this classic was used again in the Stooges' 1954 film,
"Gals and Pals".
SD:
4 (W 4/14 to F 4/16, and M 4/19/37) FN:
Footage was reused in Pals and Gals (6/3/54 - covered wagon escape
and ending) and Stop! Look! and Laugh! (7/60). Exchanging cards
under the table is also seen in Out West (4/24/47) and Pals
and Gals (6/3/54). "Homing pigeon to Headquarters" gag
was milked in in The Private Eyes (1981) with Don Knotts and
Tim Conway.
