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Phony Express

1943 · 17 min

A rapid-fire slapstick romp full of silly gags and cartoonish chaos that's easy to enjoy without thinking.

Tagline
They're the Maddest Badmen in the West!
Overview
Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro

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How it feels

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • campystrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • deception
  • justice
Places
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror0
Humour9
Realism3
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight1

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Details

Genres
comedy, western
Directed by
Del Lord
Written by
Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins
Starring
Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shirley Patterson, Bud Jamison, Harry 'Snub' Pollard, Blackie Whiteford, Ernie Adams
Runtime
17 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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