{"id":32790,"date":"2023-05-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32790"},"modified":"2023-05-14T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:23:46","slug":"punchy-cowpunchers-1950-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32790","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Punchy Cowpunchers&#8221; (1950) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z051423zview_punchycowpunchers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Punchy Cowpunchers <\/em><\/strong>(1950)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Bernds <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Edward Bernds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald, Dick Wessel, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Heinie Conklin <\/strong>and <strong>Blackie Whiteford.\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>You&#8217;ll salute the Stooges for their screwiest comedy ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small town in the old west has been taken over by the Dillon Gang.\u00a0 Led by, uh, Dillon (MacDonald), the crooks are making life miserable for everyone.\u00a0 Elmer (Mahoney), is a heroic cowboy, but realizes he&#8217;ll need help running the Dillon Gang out of town.\u00a0 So Elmer rides to the nearest US Cavalry fort to get assistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile at the fort, the Sergeant is trying to turn our boys into soldiers.\u00a0 You can imagine the success he&#8217;s had.\u00a0 When the fort commander says that soldiers are needed for a potential suicide mission to run the Dillon Gang out of town, the Sarge volunteers Larry, Moe and Shemp.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Punchy Cowpunchers\u00a0<\/em>is not our usual Three Stooges short.\u00a0 It features a soundtrack and gives supporting cast members ample opportunities for comedy.\u00a0 This is especially true for Jock Mahoney who looks the part of a handsome cowboy star of the era, but is played dimwitted and clumsy.\u00a0 Mahoney was a stuntman before becoming a star and he gets multiple gags showing his talents.<\/p>\n<p>This is writer\/director Edward Bernds favorite short that he did with The Three Stooges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Punchy Cowpunchers <\/em><\/strong>(1950) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z051423zview_punchycowpunchers2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punchy Cowpunchers (1950) Director:\u00a0 Edward Bernds Writer: Edward Bernds Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32840,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32790\/revisions\/32840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}