Punchy Cowpunchers

It's 1868 Fort Scott, Kansas. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard are bumbling US cavalry men. Sgt. Mullins gets the short end of the stick with those guys. He gets to send three men on a suicide mission to take down the Dillon gang and he knows exactly who to pick. The boys find help from singing cowboy Elmer and barmaid Nell.

There is an actual story in this Three Stooges short. The boys are doing plenty of physical comedy, but few of them are all that funny. Elmer is trying so hard sometimes. He's trying to match the Stooges and comes off looking silly. The safe is stupid, but at least, it's fun.

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!

I think Punchy Cowpunchers is one of the best Three Stooges westerns with Shemp. This one has an all-star cast which includes Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Wessel, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Heinie Conklin, and Joe Palma! All of the actors perform well and each all has a bit of screen time. There some really funny things here and I love it when the Stooges bartenders. If you are a Three Stooges fan and western fan then I strongly recommend that you watch Punchy Cowpunchers today!

This 3 Stooges short subject has Moe, Larry, and Shemp joining the cavalry and when men are needed to be spared for a dangerous mission that they might not come back from then the sergeant knows exactly where to look.

The mission is to help track down the notorious Dillon gang which is headed by veteran character actor Kenneth MacDonald. In typical stooge manner they kinda sorta capture him.

This short also has Jock Mahoney just as he was getting out of being a stuntman and doing parts. He was never this funny in his later films. Here he burlesks his own image as a cowboy hero who just can't quite get it together.

One of their best from the Shemp years.

This is Christine McIntyre's best stooges appearance. "I'm just a poor helpless woman!" POW! And knocks her attacker out the window. This short is also good because the bad guys are real badguys. They have brains unlike some of the other bad guys that the boys went up against in the past. You actually start worrying about the stooges and wondering if they'll get out of this one alive.

Elmer's pratfalls and his "Forgot my geetar." and "I fell off my horse" lines are priceless. Oh yeah and the stooges are good too. Especially Shemp's "Your gun is empty." SMASH This one never fails to make me laugh. Definitely my favorite short.

At least, Jock Mahoney would be riding high if he wasn't always falling off his horse. It's amazing how my view of a certain short can change over the years. I've always been a Shemp fan, but teenage me was never too impressed with this short. Now, that I'm a (somewhat) mature adult, I can really appreciate the camp satire Ed Bernds was creating here & I can definitely see why he considered this his personal favorite from the Shemp years.

There's a great mix of subtle and not so subtle humor. I've always liked, "Three strangers, did you recognize them?" "No, boss I've never seen them before."

Christine McIntyre as the poor, weak woman with a killer right hook. Laying waste to most of the baddies before the stooges can tackle 'em.

And earlier, when our boys are trying to act tough against the Killer Dillions. I'll take a milkshake. That always gets the biggest laughs from me. A nearly perfect send-up of the western genre....