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.
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. In particular, tabloid newspapers of the time referred to actor Cary Grant and his second wife, wealthy heiress Barbara Hutton, as "Cash and Cary".
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 dollars?"
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? Time marches on!"File:CashcarryCOLOR.jpgMoe mines for gold in Cash and Carry.
Con man: "There's a treasure in it...was buried by Captain Kidd's kid."
Curly: "No kiddin'?"
Con man (as he's 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!"
[Moe slaps Curly.]
President Roosevelt: (to the Stooges): "As for you gentlemen, in view of the extenuating circumstances, I find it possible to entend 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.]
Further reading
Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [3], (Citadel Press, 1977).
The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [4], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [5](Citadel Press, 1994).
The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [6](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [7], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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September 3, 1937
United States
