Rockin' Thru the Rockies

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.

This is a mostly routine Three Stooges comedy, but it has some funny moments. This time, the boys are acting as guides for a group of women who are traveling west as part of a stage show, trying to protect the women from Indians, in their usual efficient manner. The funniest part might be the scene of the three of them trying to ice fish. Most of the other gags are pretty familiar, but are worth a few laughs.

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.

In this sort the boys are heading west but they run into indians that tell them to leave or they will die, but before they can go they have to get there wagon fixed. This had some funny moments in it like Curly's snap slap thing and when they go fishing and Larry tries to save Moe who fell in, I won't say anything else just see for yourself.

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.