Cash and Carry

This short about how Moe, Larry and Curly try to find gold to help a crippled boy get a surgery but accidentally end up breaking into the national reserve is one of my favorite movies they've ever done.

The joke when they're digging a hole in the basement and are too deep into the hole to throw the dirt up to the top and Curly asks Moe where he's supposed to put the dirt and Moe responds with dig another whole for it still makes me bust out laughing.

The Stooges had a special charm to them that I can't see anyone else being able to pull off their sort of humor and people not thinking it's stupid.

Cash and Carry (1937)

*** (out of 4)

The Three Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their junk yard so they go to deposit their money in the bank so that nothing happens to it. The boys end up trading the money away for a "buried treasure", which two con men tell them is in a house, which they soon destroy trying to look for the goods. This here is a pretty good short for the boys, which features a similar plot to the one that would be used in LARCENY, INC. (and later SMALL TIME CROOKS). The movie features plenty of nice laughs from start to finish even though there aren't any real loud ones. My favorite sequence is towards the end when all three men are down in this giant hole they dug when they realize they don't have any place to throw the new dirt so they decide to dig another hole just to put the new dirt in. Moe ends up getting beat up pretty bad by the other two who keep swinging their shovels. The opening stuff dealing with the junk car and its bad tires is pretty funny as well but the ending is where the film really works.

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.

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!!

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.