The Outlaws Is Coming is a 1965 film starring the Three Stooges and Adam West. It's another film from the 6 movie DVD set that I got from Amazon. It's got Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Joe DeRita in the drivers seat. I'm not a big a fan of Curly Joe but he's a hell of a lot better than that awful Joe Besser. I hadn't seen the movie before that I know of and was surprised to see Adam in the cast. I actually recognized his voice before I recognized his face. It was directed by Norman Maurer who co-wrote the script with Edwood Ullman. Norman is Moe's son-in-law and he's credited with the creation of the CineMagic process used in the 1960 film The Angry Red Planet. Maurer created the first 3-D comics with his brother, Leonard Maurer, and Joe Kubert. It was the 1953 Three-Dimension Comics featuring Mighty Mouse. Edwood wrote a bunch of short films, many of them Stooges shorts, and a few features. He would go on to write Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini right after this film. I remember going to see Dr Goldfoot in the theater.
Some creep named Rance plans to kill off the buffalo to rile up the Indians. He hopes they will wipe out the Cavalry and he can take over the west. A magazine sends Adam West and the Stooges to investigate the buffalo slaughter. Adam's a pretty whimpy guy but he gets a hand from Annie Oakley, played by Nancy Kovack, and winds up sheriff. These things seem to happen a lot in the movies, don't they? Rance sends his gang to kill the sheriff but the Stooges help out by secretly gluing the guns to the holsters. Adam and the Stooges convince the gang to give up their life of crime and go straight. They also foil Rance's plan to sell arms to the Indians by getting a picture of the sale.
It's all pretty goofy and silly. I found it a more entertaining film than the Rockin' In The Rockies and that's mostly because it kept the Stooges together. They are getting pretty old by this time but they were still movin' pretty well. Larry would last about 5 more years and Moe ten. Emil Sitka turns up in 3 parts and Henry Gibson plays the Indian Chief's son. The outlaws in the film were local TV hosts from stations across the U.S. that showed the Stooges Columbia short films. As I said, I enjoyed it and would watch it again.
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