Rockin' Thru the Rockies

Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)

*** (out of 4)

Moe, Larry and Curly are taking four showgirls from Kansas to San Francisco but they get held up in the Rockies where they soon come under attack from Indians. The Indians warn them to get out by the next night or else but the Stooges lose their horses and have to come up with a different route of escape. The Western setting is one that the Stooges used quite often and once again it's perfectly used in this very funny entry that manages to have all the classic violence that you'll love as well as several great routines. One of the highlights of the film has the boys going ice fishing and of course they keep falling into the water and even manage to catch a "fish that looks like Moe." The stuff dealing with the Indians isn't the funniest written parts but there are a few good moments where there's a redskin joke and the end chase is funny even if it doesn't pay off too well. As you'd expect, the violence level here is pretty high as all three men are getting slap and punched but Moe gets to take a few violent cracks over the head with an axe and the abuse he takes during the fishing sequence is priceless. Another great sequence has the boys sleeping together during a frigid night and the aftermath in the morning is hysterical to say the least. Fans of the Stooges will enjoy this short and those unfamiliar with the group will also find themselves laughing.

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 funny Three Stooges short with Curly. Dick Curtis and Bert Young have to interesting role here and the two actors play them well. The same goes for Dorothy Comingore, Dorothy Appleby, Lorna Gray, and Kathryn Sheldon! The fishing scenes and the bed scenes with The Stooges are hilarious! Recommended!

The above question wan posed by an irate woman called "Nell." Now that's an odd insult that she used: a sun-baked ham? Well, in an old film, particularly a Three Stooges short that is 68 years old, you're going to get a lot of strange name-calling. I suppose in real life, the boys would be called a lot worse.....a lot worse.

Daisy, Tessie, Flossie and Nell (the old coot who has no patience with the bumbling boys) actually hire the Stooges to take them West so they can perform their singing and dancing act. Of course, five months into the trip they've only made it about 100 miles to Kansas and Nell has lost her patience. Can't blame the poor woman.

The bulk of the story contains classic Three Stooges gags, some of which are good no matter how many times, or in how many films, you see them: like the grizzly bear wandering into the shed and Curly, at first, thinking it's a warm blanket.

Then, PC-aside, we get the normal adventures with Indians which are usually pretty funny. The highlight, however, of this "western adventure," is the ice-fishing scene..Without giving too much away, suffice to say all three Stooges wind up taking humorous plunges into the icy waters. You can't help but laugh out loud at some of them.

45th Stooge film short and one that finds them really at odds with the brutal elements. Although it's all props, right?

Mission: Escort three pretty showgirls, played by Dorothy Comingore, Lorna Gray and Dorothy Appleby across the mid west (circa 1800s) to San Francisco, getting stuck in the Rocky Mountains. And it's COLD!

I agree with the last reviewer, the girls are kind of put off to the side, while Moe, Larry and Curly get involved in all sorts of insane stuff. The frigid weather makes it impossible to sleep. How about jumping into ice cold lake water??? And don't forget a wild bear wanderin' around. One more thing -- Indians! Leave NOW or get killed NOW. Has that zany old west feel that all us kids love, and it's a duel between Moe and Curly as to who gets the best lines or clobbered the most.

A labor of love by Clyde Bruckman, one of the team's best writers. Good part for big guy Dick Curtis as the Indian chief. Final appearance for Lorna Gray, who would move to Republic Pictures and co-star in many classic serials. Dorothy Comingore, of course, would soon go onto fame appearing in CITIZEN KANE.

Yes, for movie buffs, some gag lines referring to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. And this is one bumpy night.

Another Stooge gem. Always on dvd, generally by decades, 30s, 40s, and 50s episodes. Many thanks to METV for running these oldies every Saturday.

How I remember my earliest memory of this from Christmastime of 1972. also how hysterically I was Laughing @ hearing Curly say "Gimme the Ax, the ax,the ax,right in the neck,the neck,the neck."Then seeing it again for the first time in years some time in 1986.This time that I'd first seen it it was also after school & when it was too snowy out to go to my C.C.D.Class.Curly's Skunkskin cap is another interesting & hysterical aspect to give good color to this picture. I was laughing other than this too when Curly had even said to Larry "This Fish looks like Moe." and then Curly said "It is Moe."You've just got to see the rest of it to understand & enjoy it for yourself also including when they're told by the Indians that they had until sundown to leave.They used the cabin for their scenery for "Uncle Tom's Cabin."The film concludes when they use a part of the stage's scenery for a sail at the end when the girls are being chased by the Indians & have to hop onto the stage coach with the wind blowing the stagecoach away.

Coitainly, Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a."Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USA.