What I have found out about the Shemp era of The Three Stooges is that all of the shorts produced in the 1940s were remade in the 1950's using lots of stock footage from previous shorts. It was a cost cutting measure used back in the day that mostly fooled all of us young viewers. This short, Pals And Gals, was recycled from another short, Out West, with what I estimate is around 70 percent of the same footage. (I actually watched them simultaneously). Even more preposterous, the ending sequence of Pals And Gals was lifted directly from the Curly Howard era short, GC6ENEZ Goofs And Saddles , with the closeups of Curly replaced by new closeups of Shemp.
So in this new series, I now give you a simple traditional cache (GC7BPBF It's A Shemp! Out West), and this companion mystery cache, for which you can determine the coordinates using information from clips of both shorts.
First of all, from Wikipedia:
Pals And Gals is the 155th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1954 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
The Plot:
Shemp is suffering from an enlarged vein in his leg, and fears that it will lead to amputation. His doctor (Vernon Dent), however, advises that a few weeks in the Old West will cure him. Upon arrival in a somewhat lawless town, the boys befriend the ruthless Doc Barker (Norman Willes). Barker listens to Shemp's story about his bad leg, mistaking "the biggest vein you ever saw" for a gold-bearing vein worth millions. The Stooges take a liking to Barker, but are later informed by the beautiful Nell (Christine McIntyre) that he is an outlaw who is holding her two sisters (Norma Randall and Ruth White) hostage in the basement of the saloon.
The boys hatch a plan to obtain the prison cell keys from Barker's coat. Shemp joins the outlaw in a game of poker, while Moe and Larry prepare beverages for the card players. The two find every possible deadly chemical they can to add to their volatile Mickey Finn. They also prepare a sarsaparilla for Shemp to make sure their pal does not indulge in the suicidal drink. Barker downs the concoction, and screams for water. Shemp grabs a nearby fire hose and sprays the entire gang, soaking them. Moe and Larry quickly grab Barker's coat (claiming he will catch pneumonia) and get the cell keys to Nell, who frees her sisters. Barker ends up dying of heart failure at the Poker table, and his irate gang throw Larry in the cell with plans to kill him at sunrise.
Moe and Shemp attempt to free Larry using every tool they can find, while the girls ride for help. After freeing Larry, the trio stumble upon a suitcase full of old, Southern-style clothing. They then quickly change outfits to disguise themselves from Barker's gang, but a gang member (Stanley Blystone) recognizes them. The boys flee the saloon, and scurry away to hideout outside of town. Just as they are cornered by Barker's gang, Shemp takes off his gun belt, and, now serving as an ad hoc ammunition belt, puts it through a meat grinder. The increased firepower scares the gang away, and the Stooges emerge victorious.
Trivia:
Pals and Gals is a reworking of 1947's Out West, using ample stock footage. In addition, scenes of the Stooges escaping the saloon via horseback were recycled from 1937's Goofs And Saddles.
In order to advance the new plot and connect recycled scenes, the character of Doc Barker is killed off by dying of heart failure after consuming Moe's Mickey Finn. Due to careless editing of stock footage, Barker accidentally reappears a few moments later while Nell is singing in the bar. So that the pre-chase scenes would match up with the chase from Goofs and Saddles, Stanley Blystone, who had played the antagonist Longhorn Pete in Goofs and Saddles, was asked to don a costume and play a non-speaking role as one of the gang members in Pals and Gals; That way there would not be such a blatant mismatch when Blystone is seen (via old footage) yelling from the window after the Stooges jump into the wagon and flee. Blystone had appeared as a United States Cavalry Colonel in Out West, a plot device not carried over to Pals and Gals. Director Jules White often took great care in making such matches; he used a moviola on the set to make sure new footage matched old.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates
You will need to gather information from the clips in the cache descriptions for this cache and GC7BPBF It's A Shemp! Out West.
Here is the clip from Pals And Gals: Episode 155 Pals And Gals Clip 1
To locate this cache, you will need to do a projection from the posted coordinates of GC7BPBF It's A Shemp! Out West (N41 37.464,w088 26.896).
From the clip in GC7BPBF It's A Shemp! Out West , determine the values for A, B and C as follows:
A - Pick the correct order of the ingredients that went into the drink Moe and Larry prepared:
Old Homicide, Molasses, Eggs, Tobasco, Selzter, Paint, Paint Remover (Use 500)
Old Homicide, Tobasco, Seltzer, Paint, Paint Remover, Eggs, Molasses (Use 750)
Old Homicide, Molasses, Tobasco, Seltzer, Eggs, Paint, Paint Remover (Use 1000)
B - What is the Arizona Kid's real first name?
Jimmy (Use 100)
Jack (Use 200)
Johnny (Use 300)
C - Using a value of 1 for an Ace, and a value of 10 for any face card, and the number values for the other cards, what is the total value of the hand that Shemp was initially dealt in the poker game?
The number of feet to project for this cache is A plus B plus C.
From the clip for this cache, determine the values for X, Y and Z as follows:
X = The number of letters (excluding all punctuation) in the entire name of the company that owns the costumes that the boys are intending to wear.
Y = The number of letters (excluding all punctuation) in the third word in the name of the company that owns the costumes that the boys are intending to wear.
Z = The number of letters (excluding all punctuation) in the second word in the name of the company that owns the costumes that the boys are intending to wear.
The angle at which to project is (X times Y) minus Z.
NOTE: ADD 4 TO THE NORTH COORDINATES YOU COME UP WITH. I HAD TO MOVE IT A FEW FEET WHEN THE ORIGINAL HOST WAS TOPPLED