"Back to the Woods" is an excellent Three Stooges short with plenty of outdoor action! Moe, Larry, and Curly are 17th Century Englanders who are sent to the American colonies to battle the Native American savages. Fighting these Indians proves to be a greater challenge than the Stooges originally thought.
Highlights: The Stooges and the governor's three daughters engage in a lively dance to a music box version of a Beethoven minuet, but, of course, the Stooges cannot seem to show proper decorum for very long, and neither does the music. In the courtroom, the Stooges get the best of the prosecutor (Bud Jamison) by dropping their shackle balls on his feet and then, as usual, dancing. Curly drops the butt of his rifle on Larry's foot, causing the rifle to fire; Larry is hilarious as he hops on his good foot and gets beaned in the head by the turkey that Curly shot. The Stooges utilize a swinging tree branch as a means of retaliation against the Indians. Later they take care of the Indians, one by one, by hitting them in the stomach with a club, then shoving burning coals down their rear ends!
"Back to the Woods" is not the most popular Three Stooges short, but it does rank high on the list of very funny films. The boys' popularity was increasing steadily by the late 1930s, when this film was made, and as time progressed, Three Stooges shorts would eventually become one of the hottest phenomenons of film comedy.
Highlights: The Stooges and the governor's three daughters engage in a lively dance to a music box version of a Beethoven minuet, but, of course, the Stooges cannot seem to show proper decorum for very long, and neither does the music. In the courtroom, the Stooges get the best of the prosecutor (Bud Jamison) by dropping their shackle balls on his feet and then, as usual, dancing. Curly drops the butt of his rifle on Larry's foot, causing the rifle to fire; Larry is hilarious as he hops on his good foot and gets beaned in the head by the turkey that Curly shot. The Stooges utilize a swinging tree branch as a means of retaliation against the Indians. Later they take care of the Indians, one by one, by hitting them in the stomach with a club, then shoving burning coals down their rear ends!
"Back to the Woods" is not the most popular Three Stooges short, but it does rank high on the list of very funny films. The boys' popularity was increasing steadily by the late 1930s, when this film was made, and as time progressed, Three Stooges shorts would eventually become one of the hottest phenomenons of film comedy.