The Outlaws Is Coming

I thought it was a good stooge movie with Curly Joe, but their westerns have always been my least favorite of their shorts or movies. This movies funnier than any Besser short at least. This is still the best western comedy I've ever seen. I think the movie would be more entertaining and make less sense if Adam West was Batman in this movie. If you are a stooges fan then you'll love this movie.

Technically it was the last and final productions of my infancy-heroes on cinema industry, after for few appearances on screen, they make me laugh during the seventies when I was a little boy, those shorts aired in my local TV, I used to gathered with a bunch of buddies around TV in every single TV sessions, their physical humor cracked me up with the power trio Moe, Larry and Curly follow up by Shemp, aftermaths by Joe Besser and Joe DeRita in those four full-length productions, unfortunately all them didn't live up their early career no matter how their trying to.

Ours friend as usually are the clumsy old sidekicks on a famous magazine addressed to protect American wildlife in Boston, due an upcoming Buffalos massacre in western they were sent there to hinder such cruelty with the younger editor Adam West (prior Batman stardom), upon the arrival the unable gunslinger Adam West is perforce to become a local Sheriff in absent of previous four late lawmen properly buried on graveyard, therefore Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe also hired as deputies to enforce a law in lawless western city helped by the gorgeous quick draw Annie Oakley (Nancy Kovack), meanwhile dealing with Indian's rebellion and a crocked men.

Apart a Columbia low-budge production, the screenwriters provides many funniest lines for ours friends and the supporting casting as when the badmen trying selling an armored wagon and guns to Indian chief using small quotes and body language, when appears a modern and schooled son talking in stylish American jargon, in meantime the Stooges keeping their slapstick comedy, in fact nothing unusual on three previous feature films, anyway let it see easy, however don't expect anything like the golden days whatsoever.

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First watch: 1993 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD-R-Youtube / Rating: 6.

This is one of my favorite Three Stooges movies. Plus, Adam West is great in his non-Batman role.

There really isn't much to analyze here. It's just meant to be a fun romp through the old west. And fun it is. Pretty much every gunslinger and bandit from historical westerns makes an appearance, and the climatic gun fight at the end is classic comedy. And of course, there's a great pie fight.

Some grown-up dialog -- "Look at all those fighting Indians" (and if you don't get the joke, then you never heard the original story about the Custer memorial) -- far-above-average acting and just generally good production values elevate this Stooges movie.

Of course there is the usual Stooges schtick, without which we would feel terribly bereft, and Joe DeRita shows he is a superb Stooge.

Emil Sitka played three parts! As is mentioned elsewhere, he had been a "Fourth Stooge" for so many pictures, he was slated to become a Third Stooge, to replace the ill Larry Fine, but no movie ever got produced.

That is a shame for him and for us, for us who loved the Stooges, and especially for us who loved him.

Most of the cast members, except for Adam West, were not very well known, but they showed some understated acting ability that proved their talent and demonstrated how good a Stooges movie could be.

The guys were lucky. So many other comics and comedy groups or teams declined, but their last picture might well be their best.

I hope everyone will get a chance to see this, for the sheer fun of it, and for the chance to evaluate the Three Stooges and their work.

Beginning with a portentous opening narration by Paul Frees, The Three Stooges' big screen swansong plays like a cross between a slapstick silent, 'F-Troop' and 'The Monkees', gleefully dropping the names of the likes of Billy the Kid and Bat Masterson, with a curiously ecologically concerned plot involved the endangered buffalo.

An interesting supporting cast includes Mort ('Psycho') Mills as a menacing heavy with the delightful name Trigger Mortis and Henry ('Laugh-In') Gibson as an injun brave, Sally Starr as Belle Starr, while straight men don't come straighter than Adam West (soon be reunited with feisty Annie Oakley Nancy Kovack on the set of 'Batman'). But the best performance is probably given by Moe's pet skunk Elvis.