Cash and Carry

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is one of the most different Three Stooge shorts of all. Some it is really serious and the beginning of the short is unique. There is very good acting by the Stooges and the cast which includes Sonny Bupp, Nick Copeland, Lew Davis, Lester Dorr, John Ince, Eddie Laughton, Al Richardson, Cy Schindell, and Harley Wood. To all Three Stooges fans in recommend that they should see this!!

Larry, Curly, and Moe are struggling prospectors. Their car is on its last tire. The guys find a crippled boy and his sister living in their City Dump home. They need $500 for an operation to fix the boy's walk. The guys are taken by two con men who claims to know about a treasure hidden inside a house. I would have love the Stooges play around in the dump. It's filled with possibilities. Otherwise, it's solid Stooges.

By their 25th episode, The Three Stooges had settled on a formula playing characters from the lower class, while at the same time ridiculing those rich people in the upper class. A prime example was in September 1937's "Cash and Carry," where the three are frustrated gold prospectors who return to their digs at the local city dump, only to find a handicapped boy with his older sister living in their quarters.

"Cash and Carry" is the first Three Stooges' film where they care about the less fortunate, breaking new ground for Moe, Larry and Curly. The Stooges find the little boy Jimmy (Sonny Bupp) inside doing his homework. His crippled leg needs surgery, and the normally apathetic trio show their sympathy for the boy when they spot Jimmy's handicap while he's walking out of the shack. Child actor Sonny Bupp later played Charles Foster Kane's son in 1941's "Citizen Kane," and was the last surviving cast member of the Orson Welles' classic, passing away in 2007 at 79. Discovering he and his sister (Harlene Wood) have $62 saved up for the $500 operation, the Stooges suggest an interest bearing savings account at the local bank. Unfortunately, they find out from a bank teller it would take over 100 years for their account to reach $500. Two unscrupulous men, played by actors Nick Copeland and Lew Davis, overhear their dilemma and con them into buying a map for $62 that details where to find pirate Captain Kidd's buried treasure in an abandoned house. The Stooges proceed to look for the treasure by the only way they can with picks, shovels and dynamite that ultimately results in the discovery of a horde of gold. Such action, however, lands them a personal meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I agree. If you're not particularly a fan of the Three Stooges, watch this episode. It may change your mind. Certainly something different, cooked up by Clyde Bruckman, who wrote some of the best material for the team. Both poignant (which is rare) and funny, a terrific episode for the whole family to watch.

Shades of the Great Depression, Moe, Larry and Curly discover a lame boy (played by child actor Sonny Bupp) and his sister (Harlene Wood) living in a shack, trying to make ends meet. The guys really feel sorry for them and want to help pay for Jimmie's leg operation. As Stooge luck would have it, they're conned into buying a fake buried treasure map and start DIGGING!

They dig and dig -- leading to the US Treasury and a bunch of gold bars??? Outrageous as can be, loaded with a ton of poetic license, including being pardoned by President Roosevelt! But in the end, yes, the President agrees to help Jimmie. And they all live happily ever after.

What a Stooge story, if not fairy tale, and again, one that should please everybody. For movie buffs, Sonny Bupp gained fame in a few years, chosen by Orson Welles to play Charles Kane III in CITIZEN KANE. Stone-face Lestor Dorr plays the president's secretary and a great part for Cy Schindell as the vault guard. Cy was both an actor and boxer and looked the part.

25th film in the series, directed to the max by Del Lord.

Always remastered on dvd via Columbia, generally by decades, 30s, 40s and 50s episodes. Also some theme box sets.

Thanks always to METV for running these oldies Saturday nights.

This one ranks right up there with 3 LITTLE PIRATES, as an excellent episode, a rather touching story, if you will, with our 3 boys doing what they can to help the little boy (Sonny Bupp). What makes it unique is that even though they hit each other with blunt objects, there's only a small handful of slaps and pokes, and no slapstick at all in any scene with the boy. Thoughfully arranged and worked out. A keeper in my book. Anyone unfamiliar with the Stooges, or who doesn't like them at all, should watch this one to see they could be relatively decent actors as well as comedians, in the way they interact with the boy and his sister. And accepting a pardon from FDR himself puts this one in the right historical context of the depression.