Rockin' in the Rockies

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Rockin' in the Rockies was a 1945 Columbia Pictures musical film starring the Three Stooges. It was one of the Stooges' few feature films made during the run of their more well-known series of short subjects for Columbia, although the group had appeared in supporting roles in other features. It is the only Stooges feature starring the act's most famous line-up, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard.

The film, set in a resort in Colorado, is marred by the inclusion of gratuitous musical numbers, featuring the Western Swing orchestra of Spade Cooley. It was not a success, and the Stooges continued their series of shorts, again with occasional supporting roles in others' feature films. The group eventually achieved some feature-film success with a series of full-length pictures made during a television-fueled resurgence after Columbia had ended their series of shorts. Beginning with 1959's Have Rocket, Will Travel, these later films starred Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe DeRita, who joined the group after the deaths of Curly and his replacement, brother Shemp Howard.

[edit] Further reading

• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [1], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006)