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Columbia Shorts 1939

42. OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE

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Rl. Oct. 6 / Prod. No. 449 / 181/2 m / ap d Jules White / st scr Andrew Bennison and Mauri Grashin / ph Henry Freulich / e Charles Nelson / C: Dick Curtis (Clipper), Richard Fiske (Mr. Johnson a Farmer), Eddie Laughton (Briggs), Eva McKinzie (Mrs. Martha Jenkins), Vic Travers (Justice of the Peace), Lorna Gray (May), Dorothy Moore (June) and Linda Winters (April)

SYN: The widow Jenkins has just sold her farmhouse to three con men for ten dollars an acre. Meanwhile, Curly has discovered that he has the unusual gift of making any wish come true. His latest wish produces an abandoned automobile which transports the Stooges to Mrs. Jenkin's house just in time for roast chicken, dumplings and apple pie (another wish of Curly's). In return for the meal, work for their keep and discover that an oil well is brewing on old widow Jenkins property. When they inform Mrs. Jenkin's of her newly discovered wealth, Moe quickly realizes that she has been swindled by land crooks and heads up a search for the three scoundrels. During their trip back to town, the boys come across three hitchhiking crooks (the owners of the abandoned car and now Mrs. Jenkin's land) they recover the deed after a wild episode in the car on the way back to the Jenkin's farm. The hoodlums end up on their backs when the Stooges toss them overboard and keep the car and the deed. Now heroes, Curly makes one last wish: that their was a Justice of the Peace around and guess who walks in? The Stooges marry April, May, and June and they all live happily ever after.

Quick Hits:

- One of the funniest special effects used in this film is when the boys discover that the old water pump is sitting on top of the oil well. In the process of fixing the pump, they aggrivate the well causing it to blow with Curly shooting sky high on a stream of black gold.

- Did you know that Linda Winters, who plays April Jenkins, went on to bigger Hollywood fame using the name Dorothy Comingore?

SD: 4 (TH 3/16 to SA 3/18 and M 3/20/39) / FN: Remade as Oil's Well That Ends Well (12/4/58).