The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)

Director:

Norman Maurer

Writers:

Norman Maurer (story)
Elwood Ullman (screenplay)

Release Date:

1 January 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Tagline:

A Full-Length Gun-Slinging, Rip-Roaring Feature Film!

Plot:

Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe work for an editor at a Boston wildlife conservation magazine. They make such...

Plot Keywords:

Sharpshooter | Annie Oakley | The Three Stooges | 1870s | Buffalo

Cast

Joe DeRita	...	Curly-Joe (as The Three Stooges)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as The Three Stooges)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as The Three Stooges)
Adam West	...	Kenneth Cabot
Nancy Kovack	...	Annie Oakley
Mort Mills	...	Trigger Mortis
Don Lamond	...	Rance Roden
Rex Holman	...	Sunstroke Kid
Emil Sitka	...	Mr. Abernathy / Witch doctor / Cavalry colonel
Henry Gibson	...	Charlie Horse
Murray Alper	...	Chief Crazy Horse
Tiny Brauer	...	Bartender
Sidney Marion	...	Hammond
Jeffrey Scott	...	Kid (as Jeffrey Alan)
Marilyn Fox	...	Girl #1

Also Known As:

Three Stooges Meet the Gunslingers (UK)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

B-Bar-B Buffalo Ranch, Gillette, Wyoming, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Emil Sitka's final film appearance with The Three Stooges. A regular in their films for decades, Sitka would actually officially become a Stooge in the early 1970s after Larry Fine was forced to retire, but he never made a movie in this role.

Quotes:

Johnny Ringo: [after shooting a telegraph delivery man] That'll teach ya to interrupt me when I'm swoonin' the gals!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Music Man (1962)

Oh well, they tried.

To paraphrase the previous reviewer's comments, if you're a Stooges fan, avoid this one at all costs! My basic question is, being the experienced troopers of comedy that Moe and Larry were, why did they insist on attempting to continue the act when it was so obvious that their home studio, Columbia, was so clearly not interested in giving them serious writers and veteran comedy directors? This movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard Moe and Larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant. Joe De Rita, despite his background in vaudeville is just not up to the job as a replacement for Curly, Shemp, or even Joe Besser. If that's who Moe and Larry had left to pick from, they should have just closed up shop and enjoy their retirement years. Leaving us fans with better memories of far better films they had done earlier. Always leave them laughing is the motto for comedy and always quit while you're on top. Hence Seinfeld's leaving the sitcom while right up there, instead of sticking around for the inevitable decline.