Shemp's Second Film After Replacing Curly Has The Three Stooges in the Old West

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Son, never in the history of motion pictures has the U.S. Cavalry ever been late.

Moe Howard and Larry Fine in Out West (1947)

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard in Out West (1947)

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The stooges go out west for Shemp&apos;s health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch...

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Out West

Shemp&apos;s Second Film After Replacing Curly Has The Three Stooges in the Old West

Shemp&apos;s second appearance while waiting for Curly to recuperate was April 1947&apos;s &quot;Out West,&quot; the Stooges&apos; 99th short film for Columbia Pictures. The movie begins with a doctor advising Shemp to spend a couple of months in the western dry climate to cure an abnormal vein impairing his leg. Once there, Doc Barker (Jack Norman) overhears the three at a saloon talking about Shemp&apos;s vein, thinking it&apos;s a gold vein the three are working on in the mountains. After some uncomfortable moments, including Shemp winning at poker, the Stooges discover Doc is a leader of a gang who has imprisoned the Arizona Kid (Jack Mahoney) for ransom. &quot;Out West&quot; was Mahoney&apos;s first of many Stooges movies. A year later he famously performed the hair-raising jump doubling for Errol Flynn in 1948&apos;s &quot;Adventures of Don Juan.&quot; Director Vincent Sherman said of Mahoney&apos;s stunt, &quot;Errol wanted to make a leap from midway up the staircase to the floor below, but we had trouble finding a double willing to try it. Frank Pattison, our unit manager, said there was only one man in Hollywood who could do it: Jock Mahoney.&quot; The actor demanded and got $1,000 for the potentially neck-breaking jump. Sherman recalled, &quot;It was a spectacular leap. I should have shot it in slow motion to show Mahoney sailing through the air, but I didn&apos;t, and every time I see the film I want to kick myself.&quot; For Shemp, &quot;Out West&quot; proved he was comfortable filling in for Curly, who was expected back on the set as he did after his first severe stroke a couple of years before.

Shemp's second appearance while waiting for Curly to recuperate was April 1947's "Out West," the Stooges' 99th short film for Columbia Pictures. The movie begins with a doctor advising Shemp to spend a couple of months in the western dry climate to cure an abnormal vein impairing his leg. Once there, Doc Barker (Jack Norman) overhears the three at a saloon talking about Shemp's vein, thinking it's a gold vein the three are working on in the mountains. After some uncomfortable moments, including Shemp winning at poker, the Stooges discover Doc is a leader of a gang who has imprisoned the Arizona Kid (Jack Mahoney) for ransom. "Out West" was Mahoney's first of many Stooges movies. A year later he famously performed the hair-raising jump doubling for Errol Flynn in 1948's "Adventures of Don Juan." Director Vincent Sherman said of Mahoney's stunt, "Errol wanted to make a leap from midway up the staircase to the floor below, but we had trouble finding a double willing to try it. Frank Pattison, our unit manager, said there was only one man in Hollywood who could do it: Jock Mahoney." The actor demanded and got $1,000 for the potentially neck-breaking jump. Sherman recalled, "It was a spectacular leap. I should have shot it in slow motion to show Mahoney sailing through the air, but I didn't, and every time I see the film I want to kick myself." For Shemp, "Out West" proved he was comfortable filling in for Curly, who was expected back on the set as he did after his first severe stroke a couple of years before.

The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.

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