- Phony Express
Infobox Film
name = Phony Express
caption =
director =Del Lord
writer =Monte Collins Elwood Ullman
starring =Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jamison
Ernie AdamsSally Cleaves Joel Friedkin Snub Pollard Victor Travers Gwen Seager
cinematography =John Stumar |
editing =Paul Borofsky
producer = Del LordHugh McCollum
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|USNovember 18 , 1943
runtime = 17' 09"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:146604
imdb_id = 0036263
preceded_by = "Dizzy Pilots "
followed_by = "A Gem of a Jam ""Phony Express" is the 75th
short subject starring Americanslapstick comedy team theThree Stooges . The trio made a total of 190 shorts forColumbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.Plot
The sheriff of Peaceful Gulch places a picture of the Stooges in the paper, claiming they are famous marshalls coming to rid the little town of its criminals. Despite this, the boys are almost chased out of the town after nearly poisoning the ill sheriff (
Snub Pollard ) who is suffering fromlumbago . The sheriff finally puts them in charge of guarding the bank, which gets robbed while their backs are turned. To avoid being hanged, the Stooges search the area, with Curly inbloodhound mode. The Stooges eventually discover the stolen money, but not before almost being discovered by the main outlaw, Red (Bud Jamison ).Notes
*This was the last Three Stooges short co-written by
Monte Collins
* Some of the plot and minimalstock footage from "Phony Express" would be recycled in "Merry Mavericks ".cite booklast = Solomon
first = Jon
authorlink = Jon Solomon
coauthors =
title = "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"
publisher = Comedy III Productions, Inc
date =2002
location =
pages = 238
url = http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Three-Stooges-Filmography-Companion/dp/0971186804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201570359&sr=1-1
doi =
id =
isbn = 0971186804]
* The title "Phony Express" is a parody of the "Pony Express ," a fast mail service that crossed theNorth American continent fromSaint Joseph, Missouri toSacramento, California from April 1860 to October 1861.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).
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