Yes, We Have No Bonanza

Larry, Curly, and Moe work at a western saloon. They try to help three sisters who are working to pay off their father's debt to the saloon owner. The saloon owner and an accomplice had robbed a bank for $40k. The Stooges mistakenly assumed that they had found a gold mine. They hope to mine the gold themselves to pay for the girls' debt.

A lot of this is too stupid even for a Stooges short. Why would they assume that the guy had a good mine simply by his $20 coin? I know it's the Stooges. It doesn't have to make sense but I don't like it. Maybe it would be better if the loot is a bag of gold nuggets and one of the nuggets fell out of the guy's pocket. As always, I love the humor and I love Curly. Overall, this is a good fun short.

It's not the old west that the Three Stooges are doing their thing in Yes We Have No Bonanza. Instead Moe, Larry, and Curly are in the more modern west of Roy Rogers B films with people using automobiles as much as horses.

The boys are working as waiters, singing waiters even in a saloon where they hope to make a stake and go prospecting. Lending authenticity to this western spoof is traditional movie western villain Dick Curtis who owns the saloon the Stooges work in.

Both in the town scenes and later out on the desert I have to say that Dick Curtis looked like he was as enjoying this as much as the Stooges. In a sense Curtis was like Douglass Dumbrille who was a serious villain in many films, but then did comic villains and did them well with people like Abbott&Costello and the Marx Brothers.

I guess the title sort of gives it away that the boys don't get fame and fortune, just a lot of laughs.

I know I've seen this one a million times,BUT Is this the one where Curley says"Ain't Nature Wonderful"?I have a tapeworm's lunch bet on it! According to your guidelines, a comment have to be 10 lines or more. I don't think anyone of the Stooges shorts had more than ten lines of dialog, and you want 10 lines of comments? That's stretching things a little, don't you think, unless of course, the one's submitting comments are a bit on the long winded sort. I'm having difficulty stretching this request longer then I have proceeded so far. I still need two lines in order for this request to go through. I've already over burnt the toast for the tapeworm lunch, on the pure premise that I will be losing this bet in the first place, because this isn't the type of site I was looking for. A place where Stooge devotees could get an answer to questions that goggle doesn't even possess. Is that 10 yet?Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. It rottenly is! And I know that was spelled wrong, Spelt, if you're from the U.K.

The Stooges are in love -- but they gotta' work for it. Moe, Larry and Curly turn up as singing waiters(?) in a western saloon, feeling sorry for three pretty sisters who have to pay off a debt to no-account owner Maxey (played by Dick Curtis, naturally). It turns out Maxey is one bad apple, having also robbed a bank and buried $40 grand somewhere underground!

Meanwhile, to get fast money so they can pay off the girls' bills and marry them, the Stooges become gold prospectors and start DIGGING. The insane part finds them digging "exactly" where Maxey had stashed the stolen gold bonds. What are the chances? Unbelievable, but funny stuff with Curly always hamming it up. Writers Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer pepper this with lots of Stooge schtick.

Yes, Dick Curtis, nasty bad guy in scores of westerns, makes a fairly tough hombre here. Actor and famous paperback writer Lynton Brent plays Pete. Suzanne Kaaren (known for the DEVIL BAT) plays singing sister #1. Jean Carmen, who also appeared in westerns, plays sister #2 and Lola Jensen plays sister #3.

The gang's all here, ready to rumble, thanks to director Del Lord.

Most Columbia dvd releases are boxed via decades, 30s, 40s and 50 episodes. Thanks much to METV for running these golden oldies Saturdays.

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 a very funny Three Stooges western short. All of the performances are very good and Curly is hilarious! Dick Curtis performs well as the villain and Lynton Brent does as well. Also there are brief but good performances by Vernon Dent, Jean Carmen, Lola Jensen, Suzanne Kaaren. I recommend this Three Stooges short!