Yes, We Have No Bonanza

Infobox Film
name = Yes, We Have No Bonanza


caption =
director = Del Lord
writer = Searle Kramer
Elwood Ullman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Dick Curtis
Lynton Brent
Vernon Dent
Lola Jensen
Suzanne Kaaren
Lorna Gray
cinematography = Lucien Ballard |
editing = Charles Nelson
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US May 19, 1939
runtime = 15' 47"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:142421
imdb_id = 0032150
preceded_by = "A Ducking They Did Go"
followed_by = "Saved by the Belle"

"Yes, We Have No Bonanza" is the 39th 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 Stooges are singing waiters in a saloon out West. They are accompanied by three cowgirls. Unfortunately, saloon keeper Maxey (Dick Curtis) is surly and patronizing to the hard working girls. The girls have little choice, as they are forced to work for him because their father is in debt. The Stooges vow to make enough money to pay off the debt and wed the girls, and decide to go prospecting for gold.

What the Stooges do not know is that ol' Maxey has recently robbed a bank and buried the loot. In their digging, the boys managed to discover Maxey's stash, thinking they are truly in the dough. They return to town, but Maxey gets his hands on the money and flee the saloon. The Stooges, of course, catch up with Maxey, retrieve the loot, and end up giving back to the bank from whence it came.

Notes

* The title of this film is a parody of the 1923 song "Yes, We Have No Bananas". [Solomon, Jon. (2002) "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion", p. 151; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0971186804]

References

Further reading

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