The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) Online
Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe work for an editor at a Boston wildlife conservation magazine. They make such a mess of the pressroom that their publisher gets rid of them by sending them out west to stop the slaughter of buffalo. Upon their arrival they find themselves being sought after by every notorious gunslinger in history, including Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickcock, and Jesse James. Luckily, pistol-packing Annie Oakley, who has fallen in love with the handsome editor, agrees to protect them against the bad guys.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Joe DeRita | - | Curly-Joe (as The Three Stooges) | |
Larry Fine | - | Larry (as The Three Stooges) | |
Moe Howard | - | Moe (as The Three Stooges) | |
Adam West | - | Kenneth Cabot | |
Nancy Kovack | - | Annie Oakley | |
Mort Mills | - | Trigger Mortis | |
Don Lamond | - | Rance Roden | |
Rex Holman | - | Sunstroke Kid | |
Emil Sitka | - | Mr. Abernathy / Witch Doctor / Cavalry Colonel | |
Henry Gibson | - | Charlie Horse | |
Murray Alper | - | Chief Crazy Horse | |
Tiny Brauer | - | Bartender | |
Sidney Marion | - | Hammond | |
Jeffrey Scott | - | Kid (as Jeffrey Alan) | |
Marilyn Fox | - | Girl #1 |
This was The Three Stooges' final completed film as a group. They made one more film together, Kook's Tour (1970), but the film sat unfinished and unreleased for years due to Larry Fine suffering a stroke before the movie was complete.
The actors who portray the gunslingers were local hosts of The Three Stooges television programs in the 1960s. One of them, Don Lamond, who was the host in Los Angeles, was Larry Fine's son-in-law. The other hosts and their respective cities were Joe Bolton (New York), Bill Camfield (Dallas-Ft. Worth), Hal Fryar (Indianapolis), Johnny Ginger (Detroit), Wayne Mack (New Orleans), Ed T. McDonnell (Boston), Bruce Sedley (San Francisco), Paul Shannon (Pittsburgh), and Sally Starr (Philadelphia).
Norman Maurer is the son-in-law of Moe Howard. Jeffrey Scott, who plays "Kid," is Maurer's son and Moe's grandson.
Emil Sitka's final film appearance with The Three Stooges. A regular in their films for decades, Sitka would actually officially become a Stooge in the early 1970s after Larry Fine was forced to retire, but he never made a movie in this role.
The title "The Outlaws is Coming!" is a joke referring to Alfred Hitchcock's Die Vögel (1963) that was promoted with blurb "The Birds is Coming!"
The American bison herd used here was the biggest herd in the United States at that time. It numbered over 2000 head.
A comic book version of the movie was published by Gold Key with a cover price of 12 cents.
A year after acting in this film, Adam West went on to act as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the television series Batman (1966) as well as its theatrical film spin-off Batman hält die Welt in Atem (1966) .
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