"Merry Mavericks" is a very good Three Stooges comedy Western directed by Edward Bernds. Shemp, Larry, and Moe are vagrants who arrive at the noisy town of Peaceful Gulch, where they are mistaken for marshals (when Moe says, "We aim to do a little cleanin' up around here," he means the dirty saloon, but the gang of outlaws thinks he means the town). They are later hired to guard a mine payroll hidden inside an old abandoned house.
There aren't many highlights in this short, but here are a couple. Moe attempts a little "Curly shuffle" while dancing with the unattractive broad (Marian Martin) at the saloon; his spur then stabs one of the outlaws (Don Harvey) in the rear end, causing a bit of a scuffle. And the lengthy chase sequence at the abandoned house is fairly wild.
With a supporting cast that features Emil Sitka as a jailer, Al Thompson as a bartender, and George Chesebro as a henchman, "Merry Mavericks" is a Stooge Western worth seeing, if not exactly the best Western the boys ever tackled. There's even a little BLOOD in the end, which is quite an extreme rarity in the Stooge films.
There aren't many highlights in this short, but here are a couple. Moe attempts a little "Curly shuffle" while dancing with the unattractive broad (Marian Martin) at the saloon; his spur then stabs one of the outlaws (Don Harvey) in the rear end, causing a bit of a scuffle. And the lengthy chase sequence at the abandoned house is fairly wild.
With a supporting cast that features Emil Sitka as a jailer, Al Thompson as a bartender, and George Chesebro as a henchman, "Merry Mavericks" is a Stooge Western worth seeing, if not exactly the best Western the boys ever tackled. There's even a little BLOOD in the end, which is quite an extreme rarity in the Stooge films.