Cash and Carry

Larry, Curly, and Moe are struggling prospectors. Their car is on its last tire. The guys find a crippled boy and his sister living in their City Dump home. They need $500 for an operation to fix the boy's walk. The guys are taken by two con men who claims to know about a treasure hidden inside a house. I would have love the Stooges play around in the dump. It's filled with possibilities. Otherwise, it's solid Stooges.

Moe, Larry and Curly find a cripled boy and his sister living in there home at the dump yard and they need five hundred dollors to fix the little boys leg so the stooges meet these guys who trick them into getting lots of money, I won't say anything else cuz I will give it away so go watch it......NOW

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.

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.

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.