Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Jules White

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Release Date:

8 March 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western | Short

Plot:

The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded...

Plot Keywords:

Bear | Snow | The Three Stooges | Beautiful Woman | Slapstick

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Dorothy Comingore	...	Daisy (as Linda Winters)
Lorna Gray	...	Flossie
Dorothy Appleby	...	Tessie
Kathryn Sheldon	...	Nell
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dick Curtis	...	Indian Chief (uncredited)
Bert Young	...	Indian (uncredited)

Directed by
Jules White

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Clyde Bruckman		story & screenplay

Produced by
Jules White	....	producer

Cinematography by
Henry Freulich

Film Editing by
Art Seid		(as Arthur Seid)

Music Department
Ben Oakland	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1940) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1999) (USA) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Nell's Belles (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Nell: The only thing that keeps me from killing you birds is that I'm short on bullets!
Curly: Oh, I've got plenty of bullets.

'Where Are Those Three Sun-Baked Hams?'

The above question wan posed by an irate woman called "Nell?" Now, that's an odd insult that she used: a sun-baked ham? Well, in an old film, particularly a Three Stooges short that is 68 years old, you're going to get a lot of strange name-calling. I suppose in real life, the boys would be called a lot worse.....a lot worse.

Daisy, Tessie, Flossie and Nell (the old coot who has no patience with the bumbling boys) actually hire the Stooges to take them West so they can perform their singing and dancing act. Of course, five months into the trip they've only made it about 100 miles to Kansas and Nell has lost her patience. Can't blame the poor woman.

The bulk of the story contains classic Three Stooges gags, some of which are good no matter how many times, or in how many films, you seem them: like the grizzly bear wandering into the shed and Curly, at first, thinking it's a warm blanket.

Then, PC-aside, we get the normal adventures with Indians which are usually pretty funny. The highlight, however, of this "western adventure," is the ice-fishing scene..Without giving too much away, suffice to say all three Stooges wind up taking humorous plunges into the icy waters. You can't help but laugh out loud at some of them.