Cash and Carry (1937)

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

Clyde Bruckman (story)
Elwood Ullman (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 September 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay...

Plot Keywords:

Slapstick | Walla Walla Washington | The Three Stooges | Actor Shares First Name With Character

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sonny Bupp	...	Jimmie (uncredited)
Nick Copeland	...	Con-Man (uncredited)
Lew Davis	...	Con-Man (uncredited)
Lester Dorr	...	President's Secretary (uncredited)
John Ince	...	Vault Chief (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton	...	Bank Teller (uncredited)
Al Richardson	...	President Roosevelt (uncredited)
Cy Schindell	...	Vault Guard (uncredited)
Harley Wood	...	Jimmie's Sister (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Clyde Bruckman		story and screenplay
Elwood Ullman		screenplay

Produced by
Jules White	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Lucien Ballard

Film Editing by
Charles Nelson

Music Department
Louis Silvers	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1937) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems Television

Also Known As:

Golddigging in the Treasury (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

18 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe: What's the idea of movin' into our apartment?
Larry: Come on beat it.
Jimmie: I'm sorry, Mister. Sis and I didn't know anyone lived here so we just moved in but we'll get out by the way.
Curly: Hey, where's your father?
Jimmie: We ain't got no father. Just Sis and I.
Moe: Wait a minute, son. We made a mistake, this ain't our house, we didn't have any cuitains. Go on sit down and do your homework.
Jimmie: Oh, thank you.

Movie Connections:

Remade as Two April Fools (1954)

Nice Stooges Short

Cash and Carry (1937)

*** (out of 4)

The Three Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their junk yard so they go to deposit their money in the bank so that nothing happens to it. The boys end up trading the money away for a "buried treasure", which two con men tell them is in a house, which they soon destroy trying to look for the goods. This here is a pretty good short for the boys, which features a similar plot to the one that would be used in LARCENY, INC. (and later SMALL TIME CROOKS). The movie features plenty of nice laughs from start to finish even though there aren't any real loud ones. My favorite sequence is towards the end when all three men are down in this giant hole they dug when they realize they don't have any place to throw the new dirt so they decide to dig another hole just to put the new dirt in. Moe ends up getting beat up pretty bad by the other two who keep swinging their shovels. The opening stuff dealing with the junk car and its bad tires is pretty funny as well but the ending is where the film really works.