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• Actors: Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Moe Howard, Adam West, Nancy Kovack
• Directors: Del Lord, Norman Maurer
• Writers: Norman Maurer, Elwood Ullman, Felix Adler
• Producers: Norman Maurer, Jules White
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006RCL1
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,928 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Get the long and the short of the Three Stooges in this exciting Old West double feature, which contains one feature-length film from the '60s along with a classic short film from the '30s.

The Outlaws is Coming (1965), also known as The Three Stooges Meet the Gunslingers, is a wacky Western in which Larry, Moe and Curly-joe co-star with Adam West (TV's "Batman"), Henry Gibson (TV's "Laugh-In"), longtime Stooge sidekick Emil Sitka and Nancy Kovack (Frankie and Johnny). The Stooges are sent, along with an editor, by a conservationist magazine publisher on the East Coast to inversigate a gunslinger who is wiping out the buffalo population in the West in order to turn the Indians against his enemy, the U.S. Cavalry. With a little help from Annie Oakley and an unusual cache of weapons (including cream pies), they are able to dodge the posse's bullets...and make the West safe for the wild creatures that roam its frontiers.

BONUS SHORT FILM: In Goofs and Saddles(1937), Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard are enlisted by Civil War General Muster to help save the country from a notorious cattle rustler.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Baby Boomer delight!, December 28, 2002

By	William B. Seguine (Flanders, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Did you grow up watching the Three Stooges with Sally Starr? Or Officer Joe Bolton? Were you there for Batmania with Adam West? How about Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In? If the answer is "yes," THE OUTLAWS IS COMING! (1965) is for you.

The Stooges' Curly-Joe era gets a bad rap, but I think it's unfair, as demonstrated by this fun & funny western starrring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Adam West (BATMAN), Nancy Kovack, Henry Gibson (LAUGH-IN), Emil Sitka, Don Lamond (Larry's son-in-law), Mort Mills... and a group of children's show hosts from around the US, the same ones we grew up with, as the OUTLAWS! Despite their ages, the Stooges hilariously generate an ample amount of slapstick, director Norm Maurer (Moe's son-in-law) directs in a casual yet narrative style, and veteran Stooge screenwriter Ellwood Ullman delivers clever & topical gags. Henry Gibson spoofs the '60s as a hippie native American. And, one year before he [climbed] to stardom as the Caped Crusader BATMAN, Adam West costars as the film's hero. For adults, it's a nostalgic trip back. For kids, it's a fun comedy. For everyone, it's Stooge entertainment!

As a bonus, Columbia throws in the funny western spoof GOOFS AND SADDLES (1937) starring the original Curly, Curly Howard.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Not Bad for the Old Guys", July 21, 2008

By	Steven K. Szmutko (EWING, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sure, this movie doesn't compare with the classic Three Stooges shorts, but it has its moments and provides a few laughs along the way. Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe, getting up in years, perform some of the classic chestnuts and a few new routines with reasonable craftsmanship besides a decent supporting cast led by Adam West, Nancy Kovak, frequent stooge co-star, and a bevy of 1950's and 1960's local television hosts. New York and Philadelphia audiences will fondly remember Officer Joe Bolton and Sally Starr respectively who hosted the afternoon Stoogefests on the local TV stations. Emil Sitka, a stooge regular, provides laughs as he takes on multiple roles. Adam West shows a bit of the wry humor that would win him fame as television's "Batman" or more recently as the Mayor of Quahog on Family Guy.

This was the last feature film for the Stooges and they show their age. Many stooge purists will dismiss the film as sub-par - and by objective standards, it ranks well below their best work. The key here is to appreciate the film for what it is: a pleasant 90-some minutes of light entertainment that is just better than some more contemporary films that are repeated endlessly on broadcast or cable channels.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It wasn't half-bad, October 4, 2006

By	Anyechka (Rensselaer, NY United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I was actually surprised at how decent this movie turned out to be. Unlike almost all of the other DeRita features, this one seemed to actually have a half-decent script and a pretty good supporting cast (particularly Adam West, pre-Batman, and the always fantastic Emil Sitka in three different roles), in lieu of the embarrassing childish inane scripts plaguing their other features. While this certainly doesn't merit classic status or rank among their greatest, nor was it made when they were in their creative and physical prime, it's also pretty enjoyable for what it is. There may not have been a lot of funny scenes, but the strong plot makes up for that deficiency. I also liked the unique and creative opening credits, and though the Native Americans were portrayed somewhat stereotypically, at least the scenes with them here, in 1965, are head and shoulders above the racist and offensive way they were being depicted onscreen even like 20 years earlier. They even have one young Native American who has gotten an education at a university, isn't wearing the ceremonial clothes everyone else is, and actually takes one of the bad guys to task for talking to them like they can't understand proper English. That's probably about as enlightened and progressive as one could have hoped for in 1965. However, as good of a supporting cast and script as the movie had, there were some dated jokes, like the conversation about Colts being a spoof on a then-current commercial and a reference to Dr. Kildare. This aspect of the movie hasn't made it age well, just like most movies and tv shows with a lot of topical humor. Also interesting to note is that the outlaws are played by the hosts of Stooges tv programs (marketed of course towards children, their prime audience during this final stage of their career); one of them, Don Lamond, was Larry's son-in-law.

Also included as a bonus is the short 'Goofs and Saddles' (1937). It's halfway-decent, but since it's a Western, it has the typical slow pace and therefore just isn't very funny or interesting. However, it does pick up the pace somewhat in the second half, after they lose those ridiculous wigs and false moustaches (though it was interesting to see Curly with the wig, since it gives one an idea of what he might have looked like before he joined the group and had a full head of long wavy hair). Another downside to these Westerns, besides the slow dull pace and the fact that they were never believable as slow-witted cowboys, is how restrained Moe is. Where's all of the punishment he usually inflicts on his mates, or all of the insults and rebukes? He's just not mean enough in the Westerns!

I would actually recommend this to someone interested in their feature-length films, even though saying one of the DeRita films is above-average still isn't saying that much, considering what most of the rest of them were like. At least this one can be enjoyed by people over the age of ten, and combined with the stronger than usual script and supporting cast, it's one of their few features that can be enjoyed by those of us who aren't nostalgic aging Boomers.