This remake was a great remake of "Shivering Sherlocks" and way better. This adds new footage that is funnier and ups the grade a lot. The plotholes that were in "Shivering Sherlocks" have been fixed. There is also a new ending that is better than in "Shivering Sherlocks". Overall: B+
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Pretty good for a Stooges remake
slymusic2 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
"Of Cash and Hash" is one of the later Three Stooges shorts starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard. This film is a fairly decent remake, with lots of stock footage, of an earlier Stooge short titled "Shivering Sherlocks" (1948). (If you haven't yet seen either of these two films, don't read any further.) In "Of Cash and Hash," the boys are restauranteurs who run afoul of the law when they mistakenly become suspects of an armored car robbery. With the help of their employer Gladys (Christine McIntyre), the Stooges manage to locate & capture the real crooks in the end, but it doesn't come easily.
Highlights: Shemp outwits the bad guys by dropping flour barrels on top of them (stock footage). Shemp slides a bowl of "cackle soup" (merely hot water poured over a raw chicken) across the lunch counter, and it ends up on Moe's back (stock footage). The opening shoot-out between the bad guys and the armored car guards is rather frightening for the Stooges, as they are caught right in the middle of it! (new footage). When Shemp declares his fear of deserted houses, Larry tries to calm him down by surmising that they might get dessert (new footage). Larry obtains a crowbar to open the front door of the abandoned house; when Moe asks him where he found it, he answers, "In the house" (stock footage). Capt. Mullins (Vernon Dent) utilizes a rather quirky lie detector on the Stooges; particularly funny is the fact that the captain may not be telling the truth about his OWN whereabouts! (stock footage). Shemp declares to the captain that paint tastes better than the Stooges' coffee (stock footage). And finally, Moe, Larry, and Shemp all become frightened of each other as they nearly collide while running through a hallway inside the spooky house (stock footage).
"Of Cash and Hash" is a very good Three Stooges remake with a fine supporting cast. In addition to Christine McIntyre and Vernon Dent, this film casts Kenneth MacDonald and Frank Lackteen as the two crooks, Duke York as their hunchbacked hatchet man Angel, Cy Schindell as a cop, and Stanley Blystone as an exasperated customer. The only inconsistency in the film's plot is that it seems highly unlikely that one of the robbers (Lackteen) would blatantly walk right into the café where the Stooges work. But at least it makes for a fairly interesting chase sequence.
Highlights: Shemp outwits the bad guys by dropping flour barrels on top of them (stock footage). Shemp slides a bowl of "cackle soup" (merely hot water poured over a raw chicken) across the lunch counter, and it ends up on Moe's back (stock footage). The opening shoot-out between the bad guys and the armored car guards is rather frightening for the Stooges, as they are caught right in the middle of it! (new footage). When Shemp declares his fear of deserted houses, Larry tries to calm him down by surmising that they might get dessert (new footage). Larry obtains a crowbar to open the front door of the abandoned house; when Moe asks him where he found it, he answers, "In the house" (stock footage). Capt. Mullins (Vernon Dent) utilizes a rather quirky lie detector on the Stooges; particularly funny is the fact that the captain may not be telling the truth about his OWN whereabouts! (stock footage). Shemp declares to the captain that paint tastes better than the Stooges' coffee (stock footage). And finally, Moe, Larry, and Shemp all become frightened of each other as they nearly collide while running through a hallway inside the spooky house (stock footage).
"Of Cash and Hash" is a very good Three Stooges remake with a fine supporting cast. In addition to Christine McIntyre and Vernon Dent, this film casts Kenneth MacDonald and Frank Lackteen as the two crooks, Duke York as their hunchbacked hatchet man Angel, Cy Schindell as a cop, and Stanley Blystone as an exasperated customer. The only inconsistency in the film's plot is that it seems highly unlikely that one of the robbers (Lackteen) would blatantly walk right into the café where the Stooges work. But at least it makes for a fairly interesting chase sequence.
Good Stooges short!
Movie Nuttball17 June 2004
The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!
This is a good Three Stooges short! The Stooges are very good in it so is Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Frank Lackteen, Vernon Dent, Duke York, and Cy Schindell. Its quite good to watch around Halloween time! There is another similar like this Three Stooges short with alternate scenes called Shivering Sherlocks.
This is a good Three Stooges short! The Stooges are very good in it so is Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Frank Lackteen, Vernon Dent, Duke York, and Cy Schindell. Its quite good to watch around Halloween time! There is another similar like this Three Stooges short with alternate scenes called Shivering Sherlocks.
Tired, slapdash and unfunny
fredcdobbs527 June 2020
Notwithstanding Shemp's attempts to inject some life into it, this sloppy, hastily thrown together short is definitely NOT one of their better ones. Columbia was phasing out its shorts department--it shut down altogether just three years after this was made--and wasn't putting any effort at all into the Stooges' products. This short consists mostly of painfully obvious stock footage from Shivering Sherlocks (1948) with some cheaply shot new footage thrown in the mix. Don't waste your time on this thing and watch the original instead.
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