Cash and Carry (1937)
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| Cash and Carry | |
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 Opening title card to Cash and Carry (1937) |
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| Directed by | Del Lord |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman Elwood Ullman |
| 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 |
| Editing by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 3, 1937 |
| Running time | 18 min. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Goofs and Saddles (1937) |
| Followed by | Playing the Ponies (1937) |
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Cash and Carry is a 1937 Three Stooges short, their 25th for Columbia Pictures. Involving the Stooges as miners helping a crippled orphan get money for his leg surgery, this film is notable for showing an uncharacteristically sentimental side to the comedy team.
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].
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[edit] 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 a 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.
[edit] Notes
Sonny Bupp, who played Jimmy in this episode, went on to play Charles Foster Kane III in the 1941 film, Citizen Kane.
Some sources erroneously call Cash and Carry the 24th Columbia short.
The title of the short, Cash and Carry, was a popular saying of the era. In particular, tabloid newspapers of the time referred to actor Cary Grant and his second wife, wealthy heiress Barbara Hutton, as "Cash and Cary".
[edit] Quotes
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- Jimmy (doing homework): "I'm stuck. How much is six and six?"
- Moe (to Curly, who was creeping away): "Well...hey, you help him!"
- Curly (thinking): "Six and six? Don't tell me...two sixes...Boxcars!"
- Jimmy (confused): "Boxcars?"
- Curly (making a dice rolling motion): "Yeah! Looks like two lumps of sugar with smallpox! You throw it up there..."
- Moe (overhearing): "Hey! What are you tryin' to learn the kid?"
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- Moe: "What do you leave your money layin' around in cans for? Why don't you put it in the bank?"
- Jimmy: "Will the bank give it back to us?"
- Curly: "Oh, sure! They didn't used to, but now they do!"
- [Moe scowls at Curly.]
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- Moe: "There's 62 bucks there. How long do we have to wait before it swells to 500?"
- Banker (looking at a chart): "62 dollars?"
- Moe: "Yes, sir."
- Banker: "That'll take you 104 years, 6 months, and 17 days."
- Moe: "Oh, we can't wait that long!"
- Curly: "Why not? Time marches on!"
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- Con man: "There's a treasure in it...was buried by Captain Kidd's kid."
- Curly: "No kiddin'?"
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- Con man (as he's driving away): "So long, chumps!"
- Curly (laughing): "Chumps...He don't even know our names!"
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- Moe (to Curly, after Curly accidentally hit Moe): "Remind me to kill you later."
- Curly (searching his pockets): "I'll make a note of it...I ain't got a pencil!"
- Moe: "Well, I changed my mind. I'm gonna do it now!"
- [Moe slaps Curly.]
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- FDR (to the Stooges): "As for you gentlemen, in view of the extenuating circumstances, I find it possible to entend to you executive clemency."
- Curly (begging): "Oh, no! Please, not that!"
- [Moe nudges Curly angrily.]
- Moe: "He means we're free to go!" [The Stooges and Jimmy thank the President and salute him.]
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Glendale, California: Comedy III Productions Inc. ISBN 0-9711868-0-4.
