The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)

THE OUTLAWS IS COMING  (1965)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Norman Maurer
    The Three Stooges, Adam West, Nancy Kovack,
    Mort Mills, Don Lamond, Emil Sitka, Henry Gibson
Stooges out West, with Moe, Larry and Curly Joe heading to Wyoming with newspaper editor Adam West to try to prevent an Indian war. It's the usual moronic nonsense, but these guys knew how to deliver that sort of thing, and for a feature-length Three Stooges movie, it's not too bad. Glue plays a key role in the slapstick, and there are amusing references to the Beatles, "The Music Man" and westerns on TV, along with a gunman named Trigger Mortis and a skunk named Elvis. The climactic chase, culminating in a pie fight that materializes out of nowhere, is surreal. West and Henry Gibson would both break through later in the decade, on television's "Batman" and "Laugh-In" respectively.