Cash and Carry (film)
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| File:Cash and Carry 1937.jpg Opening title card to Cash and Carry (1937) | |
| Directed by | Del Lord |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman Elwood Ullman |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| 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 |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates | September 3, 1937 |
Running time | 18 min. |
| Language | English |
Cash and Carry is a 1937 Three Stooges short. Involving the Stooges as miners helping a crippled orphan get money for his leg surgery, this film is notable for showing an uncharacteristically tender side to the comedy team, and having a more dramatic storyline than most Three Stooges vehicles.
Writer Clyde Bruckman's story was later adapted for comedian Andy Clyde in his short films A Miner Affair (1945)[1] and Two April Fools (1954)[2].
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 Captain Kidd's 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.
Home video releases
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which produces the Three Stooges DVDs, released a VHS of the film on January 28, 1997. Taking Cash and Carry as its title, this videotape also contained the Three Stooges shorts, No Census, No Feeling (1940), and Some More of Samoa (1941). The tape is currently out of print. [3] As of August, 2006, Cash and Carry is not available on DVD.
References
- Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Glendale, California: Comedy III Productions Inc. ISBN 0971186804.
External links
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