Cactus Makes Perfect (film)

Infobox Film
name = Cactus Makes Perfect


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Monte Collins
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Eddie Laughton
Monte Collins
Ernie Adams
cinematography = Benjamin H. Kline |
editing = Jerome Thom
producer = Del Lord
Hugh McCollum
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US February 26, 1942
runtime = 17' 18"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Loco Boy Makes Good"
followed_by = "What's the Matador?"
amg_id = 1:146558
imdb_id = 0034563

"Cactus Makes Perfect " is the 61st 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 Stooges' mother (played by male actor Monte Collins) attempting to wake up her three boys. She smacks them around in typical Stooge fashion (like mother, like sons). Curly receives a letter from the Inventors' Association, who state that his Gold Collar Button retriever is "incomprehensible and utterly impractical." Naturally, Curly misinterprets this as a success, and the trio leave their mother's home to make their fortune. In transit, they are swindled into buying a map leading to a lost mine in the old west. After actually finding a lost mine, the Stooges run afoul of two down-on-their-luck prospectors (Vernon Dent, Ernie Adams), who try to swindle the boys out of their dough.

Quotes

**Curly: "I shoot an arrow through the air. Where it lands, I do not care. I get my arrows wholesale! N'yuk, n'yuk, n'yuk!"

Notes

*The title of this film parodies the ancient proverb "practice makes perfect." [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 207; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"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).