Cookoo Cavaliers is the 51st short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
THE PLOT
The Stooges are unsuccessful fish salesmen. After becoming fed up with it all, they decide go into the saloon business but accidentally purchase a salon in the sleepy village of Cucaracha, Mexico. Undaunted, the trio try their hand at giving a customer (Dorothy Appleby) a mud pack using, natural, real mud. After chiseling the cement off her face, the boys scalp three other Mexican beauties before having their bottoms shot full of holes.
TRIVIA
Filmed on June 6–10, 1940, the working title of Cookoo Cavaliers was Beauty á la Mud.
The "cookoo" in the title is often misspelled as "cuckoo".
Curly makes reference to his "last wife." In real life, Curly was married four times. He may have referred to his second wife, Elaine.
As the Stooges are putting the mud on Rosita's face, Moe and Curly start arguing and hitting each other with mud. It looks like that wasn't supposed to happen and Moe and Curly were really angry at each other during filming or something. Also, notice that Larry starts laughing out of character the first time Moe hits Curly, and right as Moe's about to leave, Curly swipes some mud on Moe's face (and there's no sound effect for it), followed by Moe turning back to Curly giving him a mean stare. Then it cuts to the next shot and Moe is suddenly cutting Rosita's fingernails.
We never see the after-effects of the hair remover spilling all over the dog.
Curly Clips
Here are two short clips from this episode highlighting Curly's talent:
Curly The Imaginary Bartender: Episode 51 Cookoo Cavaliers Clip1
Curly The Hairdresser: Episode 51 Cookoo Cavaliers Clip2
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