Horses' Collars

Just like Punch Drunks (1934), the second Stooge short, this time, in Horses' Collars (1935), their fifth short, Curly goes into a frenzy, when he sees mice. He can only be calmed down by a piece of cheese shoved in his face, by Moe or Larry. This manages to get the boys out of a lot of trouble in this film. This one has a wild west feel to it, with a surprisingly, violent sheriff. It is another indication, that these shorts, in the 1930s, were originally intended, to be geared towards adults. Moe, Larry and Curly are sent to an old west town to collect an IOU. Horses' Collars (1935), is one of the more odd Stooge films, from the early days of the theatrical act.

6.9 (C MyGrade) = 7 IMDB.

Larry, Curley, and Moe are bumbling private detectives hired by another P.I. to help his client Nell Higginbottom in danger of losing her ranch. Her father had signed a $10k IOU to Double Deal Decker who set him up and killed. The boys need the steal back the IOU which is supposedly kept on Decker at all times. Due to previous incident, Curley starts swinging when he sees a mice and only stops when he eats some cheese. I don't know if the mouse-cheese thing gets done in other Three Stooges flicks. I can see this as a great way to give Curley his own spinach. It's a fun bit.

I wanted to put "Moe, Larry.... Cheese!" on the headline but I see everyone else did already. Can't them blame; that's the appropriate title to this very funny Three Stooges film.

Curly has some great lines in here and is almost the entire show. Whenever he sees a mouse, he goes berserk and punches out everyone in sight. He only stops when the boys stuff a certain kind of cheese down his mouth. As funny as those scenes are, it's his comments that really made me laugh in here. He has some great put-downs here, but gets away with them.

The story is a typical Stooges one in which they go out west and save a woman named "Nell." The writers must have thought that was only name ladies had back in the Old West. Anyway, Curly and the boys defeat "Double Deal Decker" and the rest of the baddies in typical fashion, which means in a goofy-but-funny manner.

What I'm reviewing here is the fifth in The Three Stooges' short film series they made for Columbia Pictures. In this one, they are detectives sent to retrieve an I.O.U. from a bad guy so pretty woman Nell won't lose her ranch. While that's basically it for the plot, there are also many classic scenes of Curley (as his name was spelled at the time) going berserk whenever a mouse appears and Moe and Larry have to provide him with certain kinds of cheese in order to calm him down. It's a good thing whenever that happens though because plenty of deserving punches happen to the bad guys that provides many of the genuine laughs here. I also loved the scene involving shooting coins down not to mention the comic dancing in between. Not a great short but Horses' Collars should provide plenty of fun for die-hard Stooges fans.

This is a great short by the stooges the help a woman named Nell by getting an IOU from a shooter named Double Decker. Its a funny short because everytime Curly sees a mouse he beats people up and the only way to calm him down is to feed him cheese, also the part where there dancing is funny. Moe:"you know your not a bad dancer" Curly:"aw I bet you say that to all the boys"