Cactus Makes Perfect

Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)

GO LAUGH CRAZY WITH THE PERFECT FOOLS

The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.

Date of release
1942-04-23
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (14)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Western, Comedy
Director
Del Lord

Casting

Interesting facts

Cactus Makes Perfect is a 1942 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 61st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Filmed on August 7–11, 1941, the title Cactus Makes Perfect parodies the proverb "practice makes perfect."

Curly's remark, "I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!" parodies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Arrow and the Song," which begins, "I shot an arrow into the air/It fell to earth, I knew not where..."

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