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Director:
Del Lord
Writers:
Monte Collins (story)
Elwood Ullman (story)
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Release Date:
23 April 1942 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Western | Short more
Plot:
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Not Memorable, Except For 'Ma Stooge' more

Cast

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Curly Howard ... Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine ... Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard ... Moe (as Moe)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ernie Adams ... Stumpy (smaller prospector) (uncredited)
Monte Collins ... Ma Stooge (uncredited)
Vernon Dent ... Heavyset prospector (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton ... Gold mine 'salesman' (uncredited)
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Directed by
Del Lord 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Monte Collins  story and screenplay (as Monty Collins)
Elwood Ullman  story and screenplay

Produced by
Del Lord .... producer
Hugh McCollum .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Benjamin H. Kline  (as Benjamin Kline)
 
Film Editing by
Jerome Thoms 
 
Music Department
Ben Oakland .... composer: stock music (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:17 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the shot with Curly Howard literally flying along with the gold finding arrow, if you look closely, you can see that he's not just yelling, but that his lips are moving saying "HEYYYYYYY MOE!!!" more
Quotes:
Gold mine 'salesman': 100,000 tons of pure gold. At $35 an ounce, think of it.
Moe: I can't. How much that in round numbers.
Curly: [Curly moves his head left to right with calculator sounds and ends with a ding, pulls calculator paper out of his mouth, reads it] That's 80 billion, 61 million and 51 cents of a fraction.
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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Not Memorable, Except For 'Ma Stooge', 24 February 2008
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This Three Stooges short isn't one of the more memorable ones, except it has the boys' mom in it. Who remembers what Curly, Larry and Moe's mom looked like? Not me, and I've seen this a few times over a 50-year period.

Actually, the answer is Monty Collins, an ugly guy in drag who plays "Ma Stooge." She/he looks more like "Ma Barker!" Outside of her-him, it's a lot of standard Stooge slapstick with the boys hitting each other and a ton of sound effects. Early on the trio squeezes into a tiny bathroom and Moe shaves Curly with a straight razor, which will make you wince a few times!

Vernon Dent, a regular in the series, plays a prospector with a beard. You may not recognize him, but his voice told me who it was.

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