Cash and Carry (1937 film)

Infobox Film
name = Cash and Carry


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Clyde Bruckman
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Sonny Bupp
Nick Copeland
Lew Davis
Lester Dorr
John Ince
Eddie Laughton
Al Richardson
Cy Schindell
Harley Wood
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
cinematography = Lucien Ballard
editing = Charles Nelson
released = flagicon|US September 3, 1937
runtime = 18' 21"
language = English
country = USA
preceded_by = "Goofs and Saddles"
followed_by = "Playing the Ponies"
amg_id = 1:143332
imdb_id = 0028697

"Cash and Carry" is the 25th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The film opens with the Three Stooges, as prospectors, coming home to their shack in the city dump. Finding it inhabited by a young woman and her crippled younger brother, Jimmy, they decide to help raise the $500 needed for a leg operation for the boy. They immediately find a can full of money ("canned coin," as Curly calls it), which turns out to be the $62 the boy and his sister have already saved for the operation. Two con-men cheat the Stooges out of the $62 and their car for a map they claim will lead to a treasure. Following the map, the Stooges drill into the United States Treasury, where they are arrested. The film ends happily when President Franklin D. Roosevelt learns of the plight of the boy and the Stooges. He both pardons the Stooges and pays for Jimmy's operation.

Notes

*Sonny Bupp, who played Jimmie in this episode, went on to play Charles Foster Kane, III in "Citizen Kane".cite book
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*Involving the Stooges as miners helping a crippled orphan get money for his leg surgery, this film is notable for showing an uncharacteristically sentimental side to the comedy team.
*The title of the short, "Cash and Carry," was a popular saying of the era. From 1942 to 1945, during the marriage of actor Cary Grant and heiress Barbara Hutton, tabloid newspapers referred to Grant and Hutton as "Cash and Cary".
*when moe is talking about "home sweet home"the background is noticibly not moving even though he is in a moving vehicle.
*Writer Clyde Bruckman's story was later adapted for comedian Andy Clyde in his short films "A Miner Affair" [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037915/ "A Miner Affair" on the Internet Movie Database] ] and "Two April Fools" (1954). [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170727/ "Two April Fools" on the Internet Movie Database] ]

Quotes

**Jimmie "(doing homework)": "I'm stuck. How much is six and six?"
**Moe "(to Curly, who was creeping away)": "Well...hey, you help him!"
**Curly "(thinking)": "Six and six? Don't tell me...two sixes...Boxcars!"
**Jimmie "(confused)": "Boxcars?"
**Curly "(making a dice rolling motion)": "Yeah! Looks like two lumps of sugar with smallpox! You throw it up there..."
**Moe "(overhearing)": "Hey! What are you tryin' to learn the kid?"

**Moe: "What do you leave your money layin' around in cans for? Why don't you put it in the bank?"
**Jimmie: "Will the bank give it back to us?"
**Curly: "Oh, sure! They didn't used to, but now they do!"
**"Moe scowls at Curly"

**Moe: "There's $62 bucks there. How long do we have to wait before it swells to 500?"
**Banker "(looking at a chart)": "$62?"
**Moe: "Yes, sir."
**Banker: "That'll take you 104 years, 6 months, and 17 days."
**Moe: "Oh, we can't wait that long!"
**Curly: "Why not? "(pause)" Time marches on!"

**Con man: "There's a treasure in it...was buried by Captain Kidd's kid."
**Curly: "No kiddin'?"

**Con man "(as he is driving away)": "So long, chumps!"
**Curly "(laughing)": "Chumps...He don't even know our names!"

**Moe "(to Curly, after Curly accidentally hit Moe)": "Remind me to kill you later."
**Curly "(searching his pockets)": "I'll make a note of it...I ain't got a pencil!"
**Moe: "Well, I changed my mind. I'm gonna do it now!" *SLAP!*

**President Roosevelt: "(to the Stooges)": "As for you gentlemen, in view of the extenuating circumstances, I find it possible to extend to you executive clemency."
**Curly "(begging)": "Oh, no! Please, not that!"
**"Moe nudges Curly angrily"
**Moe: "He means we're free to go!"
**"The Stooges and Jimmie thank the President and salute him."

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).