The Three Stooges' final feature film for Columbia sends them back to the old west.
"The Outlaws is Coming", released in January 1965, enables the team to reward the children's show hosts screening their shorts across the country, such as WPIX's "Officer" Joe Bolton, by casting them as outlaws. Emil Sitka plays three different roles (keep an eye out for him in this picture), and, otherwise, the supporting cast includes Adam West, a year before Batman, Nancy Kovack, & Henry Gibson.
Paul Frees (of course) delivers some Lone Ranger-esque narration early on.
I remember seeing this on WSBK once upon a time, introduced by Dana Hersey, back in the 70's or 80's, I forget which.
A Stooges fan channel misleads viewers by inserting a head shot of Curly Howard in the thumbnail, when Joe DeRita is in this film. Of course, we know better, don't we, kids?
Wild West Wednesdays returns in 2 weeks with Zorro.
2 comments:
IIRC, the title for this film was a spoof on the Alfred Hitchock film "The Birds," most notably the advertising gimmick that said "The Birds IS Coming," which was so gramatically tangled ...
Also, the opening credits that were painted on items and shot to smithereens is similar to an earlier "breaking credits" gimmick the Three Stooges used in their TV pilot "Three Stooges Scrapbook," which only recently reappeared on line in its original color print.
I'd read of the title being a parody. It's too bad that at the time there wasn't a local host in our area running Stooges shorts, unlike the rest of the country.
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