Rockin' in the Rockies
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| Directed by | Vernon Keays |
| Produced by | Colbert Clark |
| Written by | Gail Davenport Louise Rousseau J. Benton Cheney John Grey |
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Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Mary Beth Hughes Jay Kirby Gladys Blake Jack Clifford |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
| Cinematography | Glen Gano |
| Edited by | Paul Borofsky |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rockin' in the Rockies is a 1945 musical western full-length movie starring the Three Stooges (not to be confused with their 1940 short subject Rockin' Thru the Rockies). The picture was one of the Stooges' few feature films made during the run of their more well-known series of short subjects for Columbia Pictures, although the group had appeared in supporting roles in other features. It is the only Stooges feature with the team's best known line-up (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) in starring roles.
While his cousin Rusty Williams (Jay Kirby) is away at Agricultural College, prospector Shorty (Moe) fills in at Rusty's struggling Reno, Nevada spread as the ranch foreman. He spends his time looking for an angle at the Wagon Wheel Cafe Casino, and hooks up with two vagrants (Larry and Curly) after they accidentally win big at roulette. Along with two stranded New York singers (Mary Beth Hughes, Gladys Blake) and their money, the Stooges and the girls head for the ranch with prospecting plans. Rusty returns home with hope that investor Sam Clemens (Forrest Taylor) will save the ranch's cattle and mining operations, and finds Shorty and the gang's plans interfering. Complicating matters further, inept ranch hands (The Hoosier Hotshots) mistake Clemens for a cattle rustler, and Shorty, Curly and Larry cook up a scheme to get the girls an audition with a vacationing Broadway producer (Tim Ryan).
Rockin' in the Rockies featured musical numbers by Western Swing orchestra Spade Cooley and the Hoosier Hot Shots. The Hoosier Hotshots were comedic musicians but, unlike Spike Jones' orchestra, their country-swing music never hit mainstream playlists and they are relatively unknown today.
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