The Outlaws Is Coming

1965 "The Epic to Finish All Epics"
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Released: 01 January 1965 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
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Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.

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Comedy, Western

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Director

Norman Maurer

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Columbia Pictures

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
tavm Just watched this again on YouTube, several years after originally seeing this late at night on TNT. This was the last theatrical movie for The Three Stooges and it's quite a good one to go out on even though they had one more film to go (that would be Kook's Tour which was another of their TV pilots and which I'll review next). Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe are photographers in Boston when the movie starts. Adam West runs their newspaper department and is passionate about the possible extinction of the buffalo. When their boss (regular Stooge supporting player Emil Sitka) tells of how low that speices seems to be in number, they go west to try to prevent it. I'll stop there and just say the Stooges are as funny as ever with their physical comedy and there are also some anachronistic gags about modern times that were nice surprises especially a couple of ones about The Beatles! The producer/director was Norman Maurer-Moe's son-in-law. Also Maurer's son Jeffrey Scott appears as the only underage kid here. And Don Lamond-who's the main villain here-is Larry's son-in-law. The famous gunslingers whose names get printed on screen as they are introed are all played by TV kids hosts who showed Stooges shorts on their stations. Among them was Joe Bolton who previously appeared in the Stooges-with-Curly compilation film Stop! Look! and Laugh! Interesting sidelight: After this movie, Adam West would become a big star in the "Batman" series and Henry Gibson-the college-educated young adult Indian who criticizes the Pidgin English Lamond communicates to his father-would be a regular on "Laugh-In". So on that note, I recommend The Outlaws Is Coming.
jlthornb51 Perhaps the Stooges' finest work, this is a superb example of the trio at their very best. They outdo all bast efforts and enhance their legend with this, their last released film With a bit more sophistication and in many ways much more cerebral in its concept, this is comedy that will simply delight everyone. Obviously, this Stooges film had a particular influence upon Mel Brooks when he produced his own classic Western comedy, Blazing Saddles. However, no one has nor will succeeded in bringing a funnier and entertaining Western spoof to the screen than the Stooges did with their 1965 effort, The Outlaws is Coming.
maxcellus46 To paraphrase the previous reviewer's comments, if you're a Stooges fan, avoid this one at all costs! My basic question is, being the experienced troopers of comedy that Moe and Larry were, why did they insist on attempting to continue the act when it was so obvious that their home studio, Columbia, was so clearly not interested in giving them serious writers and veteran comedy directors? This movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard Moe and Larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant. Joe De Rita, despite his background in vaudeville is just not up to the job as a replacement for Curly, Shemp, or even Joe Besser. If that's who Moe and Larry had left to pick from, they should have just closed up shop and enjoy their retirement years. Leaving us fans with better memories of far better films they had done earlier. Always leave them laughing is the motto for comedy and always quit while you're on top. Hence Seinfeld's leaving the sitcom while right up there, instead of sticking around for the inevitable decline.
slymusic Produced and directed by Moe Howard's son-in-law Norman Maurer, "The Outlaws Is Coming" is by no means the Three Stooges' greatest Western; that honor is reserved for some of their earlier shorts such as "Goofs and Saddles" (1937) and "Punchy Cowpunchers" (1950). Yet, "Outlaws" is still quite an entertaining comedy Western. The Stooges apparently wanted to make this final feature film as a tribute to the TV kid show hosts around the country who aired the Three Stooges shorts on their programs. So these hosts appear in this picture as special guests who portray all the assorted famous bandits from Bat Masterson (Ed T. McDonnell) to Billy the Kid (Johnny Ginger). Even Larry Fine's son-in-law Don Lamond, who portrays a prominent villain named Rance Roden, was a sportscaster who at one time hosted his own television show that aired the Stooge shorts. (Wait until after you see "The Outlaws Is Coming" before you read the next few paragraphs.) One of the funniest aspects of this Western is that it is rife with sixties jokes. Some examples are: 1.) a skunk named Elvis and an Indian maiden named Zsa Zsa; 2.) Larry's "Cleveland Indians" reference; 3.) Rance Roden selling a gigantic tank wagon to the Indians, guaranteed for 12,000 soldiers or 12,000 miles, whichever occurs first; 4.) sixties twist music coming from Curly-Joe's hunting horn; and 5.) the sign indicating parking hours for horses (8 to 6 except Sundays, Holidays & Hangings).Here are some other highlights from "The Outlaws Is Coming." The Stooges' Indian disguises (especially Curly-Joe's) fall apart as they attempt to dance. On two occasions the Stooges attempt to take a picture with their accordion camera, but they use too much flash powder and blow up everything in sight. Larry and Curly-Joe discover they're in the wrong hotel room while they are searching for the outlaws' guns. When Moe lectures the outlaws, he does an amusing take-off of the "Ya Got Trouble" number from "The Music Man" (1962). When Larry chats with the bartender (Harold "Tiny" Brauer), some of their words are cuckooed out. Moe accidentally sits in a puddle of glue, forcing Larry and Curly-Joe to engage in some hilarious ways of setting him free. And finally, Charlie Horse (Henry Gibson), an Indian with a southern drawl, expresses his disgust with the stereotypical Hollywood pidgin of Indians.To close, here are a couple of interesting tidbits about "The Outlaws Is Coming." First, I have never heard Moe shout any louder than he does at various junctures in this film. And second, when the Cavalry arrives at the end, Moe says, "Here they come, late as usual," which is an inside joke referring to the earlier Three Stooges short "Out West" (1947), in which the Cavalry also arrives late.