Rl.
Dec. 4 / Prod. No. 1911 / 16
m / p d Jules White
/ st
scr Felix Adler / ph Irving
Lippman / e Edwin Bryant / a
Adam Gosse / sd Sidney
Clifford / ad Mitchell Gamson /
C: The Three Stooges (Themselves)
SYN:
The Stooges' poor Papa needs a
lifesaving operation, but neither he nor his sons have any money.
The only glimmer of hope, it seems, is to be found in the hills of
Red Dog Canyon on Papa's ranch. Papa has been sitting on a Uranium
filled gold mine (or so he thinks) and hopes that his land might yield
enough of the valuable metal to pay for his operation and make them
all rich. None of the Stooges, however, are too adept to handling
dynamite or a pickax, and it looks like curtains for Pa without any
uranium to sell. Thirsty and downtrodden, the Stooges stop at a well
to take a drink, but tap instead into an oil geyser, a slippery but
still profitable means to save dear old Dad's life.
Quick
Hits:
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You
might remember the gag of Curly Howard getting every single thing
he wished for in Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise. The same is true for
Joe in this film. Joe also finds himself serving as a successful
and an unsuccessful cork for a spewing oil geyser that has gone
out of control.
SD:
2 (M 8/26 to T 8/27/57). Shot on Stage 3 at Columbia Studios and on
the Rock and Water Pump Sets at Columbia Ranch / FN:
A partial reworking of Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (10/6/39), with
some stock footage. Cow milking sequence lifted from Horsing Around
(9/12/57).
